▲ 156 ▼ 25 years ago today, the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush, authorizing indefinite detention without trial, warrantless surveillance and physical searches, and much more. (en.wikipedia.org) submitted 2 days ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/anniversaries@sopuli.xyz 12 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54518698 Patriot Act Titles Title I: Enhancing Domestic Security against Terrorism Title II: Enhanced Surveillance Procedures Title III: International Money Laundering Abatement and Anti-terrorist Financing Act of 2001 Bank Secrecy Act Amendments and Related Improvements Title IV: Protecting the border Title V: Removing obstacles to investigating terrorism Title VI: Providing for victims of terrorism, public safety officers and their families Title VII: Increased information sharing for critical infrastructure protection Title VIII: Strengthening the criminal laws against terrorism Title IX: Improved intelligence Title X: Miscellaneous See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Patriot_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_invocations_of_the_Patriot_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-terrorism,_Crime_and_Security_Act_2001 - similar law passed in the UK the following month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act - followup passed by Obama in 2015 to make permanent some aspects of PATRIOT which were due to sunset
[+] yeahiknow3@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago* Disappear teenagers? WTF are you on about? In America babies are being shot dead because their moms tried to steal diapers. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world, bigger than big mean ol' China with five times more citizens, all driven by legalized slavery under the 13th Amendment. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LocalAreaMan@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago* Disappear teenagers? WTF are you on about? In America babies are being shot dead because their moms tried to steal diapers. We have the highest incarceration rate in the world, bigger than big mean ol' China with five times more citizens, all driven by legalized slavery under the 13th Amendment. permalink fedilink source parent