Psycho- I guess you have to be in the midst of things to understand the extent. The Patriot Act supporters claim they're listening for terrorists through the phone lines; I guess they use AT&T or something, I think they get better rates if they register on a family plan...

My sister-in-law works with a large public library near Ann Arbor, and each month, she is required by the Patriot Act to submit a list of names who have checked out certain books, when, and give their numbers to a service. Not only does it take up enormous amounts of unpaid time from her schedule, but in addition to certain engineering books, a few religious ones, and history books, members often check out herbology books dealing with cannabis horticulture.

True, they shouldn't be so public about cannabis growing, (it IS Ann Arbor, though...) it's just a shame that people have to watch their backs and have their name and info sent to an agency for simply checking out a ship engineering textbook. She followed up with one of the members who had checked out a "watched" book, and he claimed he was recieving solicitation calls regarding other books he had checked out.

The right of PRIVACY is being invaded... I'm not a far-left liberal Democrat pinko, I have a good amount of Conservative values, a few liberal as well, so I'm not trying to make the US sound like 1984, but it's still unsettling that more and more cameras are being installed on my city streets. And guess what? Crime rates are going up in the areas that DO have cameras. I don't like being watched regardless of whether I am doing something illegal, or being a law-abiding citizen. Not only is it unsettling, but it is wasting money to put up these surveillance cameras, have someone montior them, and then what? Once I've been shot three times in the back, and the guy runs away with my wallet, will they be able to zoom in on my credit card number and cancel it for me?

What I'm trying to say is we DO need to protect our homeland, but not through unconstitutional methods.
Purple Banana Reviewed by Purple Banana on . US terror law 'unconstitutional' BBC NEWS | Americas | US terror law 'unconstitutional' I thought this was pretty interesting. The patriot act isn't understood that well, i tried reading it for a bit but its full of paragraphs that just reference other sources. Its scarey though a lot of the freedoms american's thought it was protecting from the middle east have just been lost because of the act itself. I guess just because a Judge said it was unconstitutional will mean it will get held up in courts for years but its Rating: 5