I agree---the Patriots Act is heinous. Let's not forget that it was the Clinton Administration that drew up the Patriot Act (they didn't call it that) and the Office of Homeland Security, it simply was waiting for the proper crisis to present it for enactment. Why do you suppose the Bush Administration came up with that sort of thing so fast? Some should research the Executive Orders Billy bob Clinton enforced in regard to those matters. Since the time of Jimmy Carter, the USA has always had a court that could try you and find you guilty without giving you the opportunity to defend yourself, and granting rights for the FBI to enter someone's premises without a warrant or permission. it's not really anything that new. Folks don't seem to want to know that sort of thing. Then again, most don't understand that our federal tax dollars do not go directly to the Federal Goverment, but to the Federal Reserve, a corporation that is not federal and has no reserves, and then the Federal Reserve, loans our tax dollars to the Government and charges interest. Most don't understand that there are 11 major stock holders in the Federal Reserve that are European companies and personages. Most---don't want to know that even though our tax dollars go to pay for Secret Service protection for the Clinton hillbillaries----the Clintons built as "safe house" for the Secert Service serarate from their main house, and they charge the Secret Service rent. And guess what---the monthly rent the Secret Service pays the Clintons is equal the the Clinton's monthly mortage payment. Nice huh? We get to pay to protect the scum bag, and he gets to charge us for the honor. The masses are assses.