Calls for a global " Patriot Act "?

[professor rat]

Calls for a global " Patriot Act " - Earth Defense League?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/fincen-acting-director-says-patriot-act-provision-isn-t-right-sized-for-crypto-enforcement

I could have told them it wouldn’t work nearly 20 years ago.

" . . .  Dorschner would not say whether there was an investigation into Professor Rat, calling the matter an issue of “internal security.” The columnist for The Boston Globe, whose sin, in the eyes of Professor Rat, was to criticize civil libertarians for objecting to the Patriot Act of 2001, said he did not take the threat at all seriously. 
He learned of the threat only last week, when told of it by The Denver Post, he said. The Post is withholding the names of the subjects of posts by Professor Rat to avoid promoting any specific threats. “The way I see it, this kind of talk is pretty cheap on the Internet,” the columnist said. “This is something I would consider casual hate speech. This person didn’t send me an e-mail saying 'I’m going to kill you.”’ 
But officials in Denver see nothing casual about the statements, Dorschner said. . . "