[Truth29]

Unintended consequences? Too many articles, including this one, provide a long list of horrors but cede the high ground by stating that most of them are unintended. I would postulate that most of these results are intended and viewed as money well spent.

[familyop]

Have to keep feeding unhealthy rationalizations and habits of the elite to rest of the populace.

[Terry Mross]

I knew a guy who is a right winger. He’s a retired deputy sheriff who was shot on the job and took retirement. He voted for Kerry. He couldn’t force himself to vote for W because of the Patriot Act.

Now, the liberals can throw the Patriot Act in our faces when we complain about government intrusion. No matter how little the intrusion was.