[TigersEye]

"People need to be very, very much aware of this bill," he charged. "What you're seeing in this bill is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. It is something that allows the President and the government to go into law-abiding homes, on their word alone--their suspicion alone--and to engage in warrantless surveillance.

They are already doing it bill or no bill by archiving every electronic communication of any kind and using software to pull profiled patterns out of it.

NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government [gov't spying on you]

[B4Ranch]

I remember Tom Drake being charged last year for something to do with thin thread. FReepers support the Patriot Act so I presume they support thin thread too.