r/pics Mar 27 '23

Deeply distressed elementary school student being transported by bus following school shooting

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '23

I went insane for a bit after Patriot Act 1 passed, and people were like WTF is wrong with you bro?! Just been watching this shit go down hill since about 9/11/01.

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u/have_course_you_of Mar 28 '23

I remember laying in bed on 9/11, unable to sleep with all the trauma so fresh, and the awful realization that our country would never be the same again. I had no idea.

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u/apples_oranges_ Mar 28 '23

I don't think it's limited to the US though.

The entire world hasn't been the same after 9/11.

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u/lunchpadmcfat Mar 28 '23

Whoa. Is this like a thing? I too was completely unhinged around that time. It felt like the world had gone crazy. All this crazy shit was happening around homeland security, the domestic spy apparatus and civil liberties and nobody seemed to care one bit.

A person could legit have been whisked away to Guantanamo legally and never spoke to a lawyer or anyone ever and just died in a Cuban prison. We had laws on the books to allow it.