Yoda, you, of all people, should be up in arms about the wholesale usurping of our rights.

Google "patriot act abuses" and you'll see links going everywhere from the ACLU to Fox News. You'll see stories of AG Gonzalez saying (in '05) nobody abused the act when, six days before that testimony, the FBI delivered a report saying some of their agents HAD abused the act. You'll see stories about arrests without warrants, secret wiretaps and the infamous subpeonas given to librarians that they aren't allowed to mention.

Yes, even Fox News was reporting about abuses.

The "USA PATRIOT" Act was supposed to be used for anti-terrorism purposes but there are plenty of agencies out there who were like kids in candy stores.

Now, don't get me wrong - there were good things about that act - like allowing law enforcement agencies to share intelligence data. It boggles the mind that it took something like 9/11 to highlight the *idiocy* of saying, for example, the FBI and the NYPD can't share data.