The Patriot Act was never necessary. The CIA and the FBI had a perfect record for 50 years and one incident isn’t enough to destroy the constitution in perpetuity.
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The constitution was the most terrible hit to a world that considered generational power inevitable. The protection of freedom of the single person was a change they planned to destroy from the beginning. People forget easily what freedom is. Watch around today. They consider crazy what I considered normal few decades ago.