It's starting to appear more and more like McCarthyism in my opinion. I don't see any marked increased safety from the Patriot Act but definitely a serious degredation of rights provided in the Bill of Rights. Those rights were guaranteed for a reason - they had been abused throughout history.
>>I still fell the Patriot Act has stolen some of my freedom from me, and not given me more freedom.
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>Was the Patriot Act design to give you more freedom or protect the country? Not necessarily protect the people of the country, but the country (the gov't system)?
>I tend to think it's the latter.
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