Posted on 11/22/2021 3:03:09 AM PST by MtnClimber
My hippie professor wasn’t right about a lot of things. He wasn’t right about his minimizing the threat of Communism at the time, but time has proven him right about this the Patriot Act.
In the spring following 9/11, the War on Terror had already begun, and I was taking a college course on the Vietnam War. It was a unique course for the time, as most of us didn’t attend the live class, but students were given a choice to purchase the lectures on DVD or, as I did, go to the library and watch them on VHS.
It was a great course, but what was most memorable was our Yahoo Groups private message board for the class. It was here where most of the discourse took place.
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He might have gotten away with that today, but we all had fathers and uncles who fought in that war and lived through it, and many of us weren’t convinced by those arguments, or his efforts to paint Communism as more of a benign global phenomenon than the murderous and tyrannical scourge that it is.
But there’s one exchange where my professor was certainly right, and we were wrong.
The topic of the thread was initially the 442nd Nisei regiment in World War II (“Nisei” meaning second-generation to Japanese immigrants, born and educated in America), and this necessarily involved the subject of the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. This led, of course, to discussion about passage of the Patriot Act of 2001, which increased surveillance capabilities and allowed the federal government more sweeping powers to address what were perceived as new threats to national security.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
And now the left has seeded government with radicals and given them the “Patriot Act” to use against real patriots.
Never give power to government.
Always give power to individuals.
It should be renamed the Act against Patriots.
Now we have the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.......
Whoever named it the Patriot Act was brilliant with psychological label associations. It fueled it’s self. “Patriots” in mass backed it and gave away our liberties in the name of “patriotism”. Even now we still hear “If you haven’t got nothing to hide then why are you worried about them invading your privacy?”.
And today that hippie professor would most likely be fully endorsing all the censoring of conservatives, just like 99% of all liberals.
It wasn’t only old hippies who had the Patriot act right. Many non-Republican, anti-communist Americans did also.
My hippie professor wasn’t right about a lot of things. He wasn’t right about his minimizing the threat of Communism at the time, but time has proven him right about this the Patriot Act.
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This author is naive.
As a commie the patriot act was everything a commie could want .
The prof was just playing the
” don’t throw me into the briar”
act.
I threw fits when it was passed , and I suspect most historically literate folks did as well.
Prescott Bush was a natzi lover, and I never thought much of any of his descendants. Rinos sobs the lot of them.
I was also apoleptic when the dept of HOMELAND security was formed.
Everything a natzi could want including the name.
Plenty of fed agencies to do that job.
Bad omens both those things portended.
Although I don’t subscribe to all the tenets of the Libertarian Party, they were right on the money on the so-called Patriot Act.
“It wasn’t only old hippies who had the Patriot act right. Many non-Republican, anti-communist Americans did also.”
I have an idea this old hippy was a Libertarian. No one yelled against the patriot act more than the Libertarians did at the time. It drew huge resentment and hate from Republican “Patriots” at the time. If you did not support the patriot act then you were a Muslim terrorist, some brainwashed Republicans still believe this very thing. Well... Turns out the Libertarians were right, they had the vision to foresee the true end cause and effect. They knew it would lead to the destruction of Constitutional rights.
Yep... You just beat me to it.
The libertarians were right on the Patriot act ( I tip my hat to you) and so were millions like me, unaffiliated, pro-American, anti-communist.
All those who understood examples from history and that any “compromise” of Constitutional rights in the name of “safety” would open the door to “give them an inch and they will take a mile”. Now here we are, they took 100 miles and will take even more...
This is what happens when things are not nipped in the bud using foresight of cause and effect. And we still have learned not one thing from it and will continue to enslave ourselves to be “safe” as a collective, like breathalyzers in all cars. We are placing ourselves willingly in the protective custody of the state.
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