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> PATRIOT act Not sure if you're aware, but it expired in 2020
by david_allison 5y ago
> PATRIOT act
Not sure if you're aware, but it expired in 2020
- the-dude 5y agoThat is a bit of a moot point for a something that has been active for 2 decades. To call 20 years 'temporary' is a big stretch.
- julianlam 5y agoWhy? Temporary means "not permanent", it doesn't specify that it must be shorter than any given timeframe.
- iammisc 5y agoThe united states federal government is temporary too by that metric. Yet everyone gets mad when you talk about eradicating it.
- pwinnski 5y agoIt was temporary, originally enacted for four years. Unfortunately, it was extended a few times in whole and then in part before finally being allowed to expire completely after 18 years.
- iammisc 5y agoDue to a president that the media declared absolute war against. If Biden or Clinton were in office, they'd have renewed it quietly. Just because they can't sneak it back in now doesn't mean they don't want to. The new administration has already made bogeyman out of 'domestic terrorism' that it's own fbi cannot find evidence for.