[dead]

Wow! Thanks for posting that, reagandemocrat!

I had no idea I was that smart twelve years ago. I thought it was a more recent development!

[Red Steel]

As I remember back in the day, you and many Freepers had concerns that if and when under a Dem administration take over, they would abuse the powers under the Patriot Act and the newly formed Department of Homeland Security. They turned out to be correct.

[upchuck]

Obviously, you are deadly prescient.

[reagandemocrat]

I should have given you notice I was going to repost yours from 12 years ago—but

Reading through comments on leftist sites, a common theme is “FR and tea-baggers were all for the Patriot Act when it first came out”

And I did not recall it being that way at all.

So I went back in time, and found that many here including you, dead, voiced strong dissent with the Bush administration regarding the Patriot Act.

So I posted yours.

Which is a great post.

FReegards.

[JerseyHighlander]

There were dozens if not hundreds of freepers who permanently left FR after fights over the passage of the PATRIOT ACT,

hyper-nationalistic jingoism at the time swept over the nation, and we’ll be suffering under this oppression for a long long time cause of it.