>Only Patriot Act? What about the recent Supreme Court opinion about giving cities more rights to take your property and land if they think it will benefit the city budget or improve the local economic situation.
>I came from communist country, where such an opinion was the common one. And I believe that here it is much worse than Patriot Act because cities may have other possibilities to improve the local economy, and even Supreme Court is not going to defend individual rights.


Indeed!
"Eminent Domain" is evil.

Just hope that your business or house does not look interesting or desirable to some local developer with enough "clout" in your city government or you are SOL. Sounds familiar?