>That is the date that the "Patriot Act" was signed into law.

I think it should be 2001.

>Most people never read the act nor do they realize how many rights they have lost.

We don't see eye to eye on much, but I'm with you here.

>An amazing thing is that the bill wasn't even printed before they voted on it, so one wonders how they could have read it in its final form.

Or so we're told by the ones who voted on it. I doubt thats the case.