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fujiyamasan

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15. Very few in congress had the courage
Thu Jan 22, 2026, 12:55 PM
5 hrs ago

To vote against the surveillance state after 9/11.

The passage of the patriot act and creation of DHS may have been the seeds leading to this country’s downfall. They’re doing more damage to this nation ina more fundamental way than Al Qaeda or other terrorists could have imagined.

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