The towers and the Patriot Act

Forty-five days between the towers falling and the signature. Section 215 opens business records to collection on an order the subject never sees and cannot contest. One senator voted no. Section 326 is the Customer Identification Program — the rule requiring your bank to collect the number.

In plain words

Forty-five days after the towers fall, the Patriot Act is signed: business records opened to collection on orders the subject never sees, and banks required to collect identity numbers. The surveillance rail is handed over, not taken: voted in under shock by a free people, with much of it kept after the shock passed.

The mechanism

HANDED OVER, NOT TAKEN — the surveillance rail was not laid by a conqueror. It was voted in under shock by a free people at the hour it was least able to price what it was giving away, and it stayed after the shock passed

How it was checked

• EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: COMMITTED; a release
• Letter eraTHE RAIL YOU ARE ON 2001 to 2026
• Plate — USA PATRIOT Act, enrolled bill, 26 October 2001 · U.S. Government Publishing Office · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USA_PATRIOT_Act.pdf
• SourcesPRIMARY DOCUMENT — the statute