When the smoke was still rising from the rubble of the Twin Towers, the American people were reeling, grieving—and vulnerable. That vulnerability was weaponized. In one of the most cunning bait-and-switch maneuvers in modern history, our government handed us the Patriot Act—an Orwellian surveillance framework disguised as national defense.
We didn’t just get conned—we got conquered. Not by terrorists from abroad, but by tyrants in suits.
The Patriot Act was born less than two months after 9/11, passed with breakneck speed, virtually unread by the very members of Congress who signed it into law. It was pitched to the American public as a necessary evil to root out terrorists, an emergency measure to prevent “the next 9/11.” But emergency powers have a funny way of becoming permanent. Just ask history. The Patriot Act was the lie that opened the gates.
And now, in 2025, as documents, whistleblowers, and independent investigations slowly peel back the layers of that dark day, it becomes harder and harder to ignore the possibility that the whole thing—from the missing NORAD response to the curious collapses of steel towers—was a staged pretext to install the surveillance state.
Was Bin Laden just a distraction, with the real target being us?
The Patriot Act opened the backdoor to hell: Warrantless wiretaps, bulk data collection, secret courts (FISA) rubber-stamping government spying, metadata hoarding by the NSA, backroom deals with Google, AT&T, Apple, and every other tech giant with their hands in your pocket and your private life.
The Fourth Amendment? Eviscerated. Your emails? Scanned. Your phone calls? Flagged. Your texts? Saved. Your browsing history? Tracked. All because you might one day pose a “threat” to the state. Not an external state—the state. The federal government. Washington, D.C. The same snakes who spied on President Trump using fake FISA warrants now think they have a constitutional right to spy on you.
They don’t. And they never did. Terror Was the Excuse. Tyranny Was the Goal.
Don’t think for a second that the Patriot Act is about Islamists with box cutters. It was never about jihad. It was always about jurisdiction—over you. This law was the legal foundation for the rise of the deep state, for the surveillance capitalism of Big Tech, and for the metastasizing power of intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA who now operate with near-total impunity. They’re not watching terrorists anymore. They’re watching parents at school board meetings. They’re watching J6 grandmothers. They’re watching dissenters.
I thought as much, bc the towers collapsed as if it was controlled demolition
I saw what was happening when the patriot act was enacted, unwarranted government surveillance without reasonable justification. It added more fuel to the conspiracy theory of our own government bringing down the World Trade Centers. The collapse of number seven building has never been explained. Buildings of that type construction don’t collapse in their own footprint from a fire. It was surely and intentionally brought down to destroy and hide evidence of government corruption.
Lots of thoughts….terror won that day and 24yrs later, almost 40 TRILLION in the hole.
I dont like Encrypted communications here on delmarva either. The excuse that the bad guys are listening…..please. Crime is bad yet those that commit it almost always get caught. Why? They brag. LEOs have known it for years… yet over the last 30 yrs something else has been noticed. Corruption with a minority of LEOs. Cameras have assisted with ratting out bad LEOs. Encryption protects corruption and its expensive.
Dont think bad guys are dumb either. They have been working on decryption methods too. Delmarva is just late to the encryption crazy, whereas bad guys arent.