I agree with Richards meme
And I did get outraged about it. But it seemed like the majority of people didn't, they wanted to be "safe" from the big bad "terrorists". And from reading some of the posts here...they still don't give a shit.
I remember clearly George Bush giving a press conference back in 2001, and he said that 9-11 presented the U.S. with "unique opportunities".
At the time, I thought he meant opportunities to do something in the Middle East to help stop some of those crazy fucks...But it turned out that he meant it was a "unique opportunity" to give the govt. a lot more power over US.
That's one of the reasons that I voted for Obama in 2008 (and voted for Johnson in 2012).
Obama said in speeches in the campaign of 2008 that Bush was using "terrorism" to frighten us. And he insinuated that the Patriot Act needed to go. I really thought he was going to do something about it.
Instead he doubled down! And I'm also still getting searched like a criminal in airports all because a a handful of guys with box cutters hijacked some planes in 2001 (even thought that can NEVER happen again now that they installed locked steel doors on the cockpit).
Ari Fleisher (who worked for Bush) was on CNN yesterday proclaiming that he fully supports Pres. Obama spying on us. He also said that this is the 4th term of Pres. Bush by proxy of Obama following all of Bush's policies.
