HLMenckenFan@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agendawww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square199fedilinkarrow-up1629arrow-down129
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minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoHe’s not wrong. In response to the first attack on the World Trade Center, Biden assisted in creating the bill that would be dusted off and implemented following 9/11 as the Patriot Act. Biden not only owns his involvement, he has been proud of it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Counterterrorism_Act_of_1995 https://theintercept.com/2021/04/27/biden-september-11-patriot-act/
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoIf you take the Patriot Act as being anti-freedom, as many people do, then yeah, I could see saying Biden is no friend of freedom. It’s an overly simplistic read, but it’s not way off base. ;)
He’s not wrong. In response to the first attack on the World Trade Center, Biden assisted in creating the bill that would be dusted off and implemented following 9/11 as the Patriot Act.
Biden not only owns his involvement, he has been proud of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Counterterrorism_Act_of_1995
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/27/biden-september-11-patriot-act/
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If you take the Patriot Act as being anti-freedom, as many people do, then yeah, I could see saying Biden is no friend of freedom.
It’s an overly simplistic read, but it’s not way off base. ;)