Chris Hedges v. The USA Patriot Act

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Wed, 10/08/2014 - 10:00am to 10:15am
Interview with Chris Hedges

The question we have to ask is, How did we get here?  And there is a simple answer:  The USA Patriot Act, which no one  has read because no one believed that it would be in force this long. And there are other questions attendant upon this curious piece of ad hoc legislation:  On the subject of climate change:  why are we talking about stopping the coal and oil trains and trucks when we started out asking why are we still mining coal and oil?  National Security dear children and the energy business has become a free for all because the USA Patriot Act justifies anything it can call national security.  and where did this word 'homeland' come from - aside from the Third Reich, of course - ?Fact is that this 'homeland is about to become a 'wasteland' if we don't come to our senses and stop ranking national security above responsible environment stewardship.
You see where this is going don't you? So much of America's current cesspool of problems stem from The Act.  No government is going to be able to extricate us from this one.  This time around it really is up to We The People...



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