Two decades later, we face a bleak reality and unsettling questions: Are we actually safer today? Are there fewer terrorists worldwide? Given the state's shifting definition of "terrorist," what prevents this law from being used against the very citizens it was meant to protect? While pondering these questions, Ben Franklin's famous words come to mind: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." In an age of emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and looming threats of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the PATRIOT Act could become a cornerstone in establishing a totalitarian technocracy where privacy is a relic of the past—if we haven't already reached that point.

The PATRIOT act was made to screw all the people all the time. We lost all privacy. We lost most of our freedom. The Bill of Rights was shredded. No terrorists, except domestic terrorist (new style) have been caught. IT WAS A TRAP.