[greeneyes]

Yeh, it’s weird stuff.

However, what is really scary to me is the laws and bueracracy that was set up after 9/11 to further centralize power, and keeps getting added to - making it easier and easier to be a police state, and making government less and less accountable to we the people.

[JockoManning]

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Which was, obviously, the main purpose of the event.

[pgkdan]

However, what is really scary to me is the laws and bueracracy that was set up after 9/11 to further centralize power, and keeps getting added to - making it easier and easier to be a police state, and making government less and less accountable to we the people.

Thr Patriot Act is one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation ever passed into law. It took roughly 6 weeks from 9-11 to get it passed and signed by W. He signed it into law on 10-26-11.