Future generations should know why we became subjects of the surveillance state.
Long after
- Bin Laden is dead and gone,
- the Taliban rose to rule Afghanistan (after a 20-year American occupation of their country),
- and Al-Qaeda (a terrorist organization) rose to rule its small oppressive Caliphate, and lost it’s Caliphate
The Patriot Act is still in force, and no one challenges the alphabet agencies. Homeland Security remains in force, and we still must remove our shoes (a CIA humiliation tactic) and go through the peeper x-ray machines before boarding a plane.
The boogieman is forgotten, as the goal – more power, bigger budgets, and less supervision – has been secured.
Until the next step up in centralized control is required. (See the COVID-19 mania.)
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