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> This undermines any moral authority The PATRIOT act does this by just existing and continually being extended. Room 641a. Julian Assange's case. Mortal au
by akira2501 3y ago
> This undermines any moral authority
The PATRIOT act does this by just existing and continually being extended. Room 641a. Julian Assange's case. Mortal authority left the building in the early 2000s.
- opo 3y agoThe PATRIOT act itself expired in March of 2020.
- Tommstein 3y agoTIL. Unfortunate timing for what would have otherwise been front-page headline news, if not for the entire world as we otherwise knew it coming to a sudden crashing end.
- akira2501 3y agoIt really didn't, though. Parts of it have already been reauthorized through different acts that are still in effect. Point is, we didn't have a referendum, we didn't bolster our laws to prevent such a thing from happening again, and zero investigations of abuses of power have credibly been done in it's wake. "Letting it expire" is not some accomplishment other than kicking the can further down the road.