[SaveTheChief]

But if you ask the DUmmies, I bet you would get many claims about being "watched" or having to live under the scrutiny of the government.

I haven't read one verifiable story about a person being wrongly imprisoned, tortured, or anything else due to the Patriot Act.

[Stentor]

where are all the stories about people who have had their civil liberties so egregiously violated? I haven't seen a single story.

All of the violated people are in secret, locked dark rooms with panties on their heads.

[TheGhostOfTomPaine]

where are all the stories about people who have had their civil liberties so egregiously violated?

The victims are all being detained without trial. </sarc>

[RGSpincich]

Oh yeah it's terrible. Guards actually asked people for ID before they entered a federal facility in Colorado.

[AntiGuv]

What I can't figure out is why it's such a big deal to the White House to make the Patriot Act permanent. It's not as if the provisions are any weaker if there's a sunset clause.

[manwiththehands]

Nope. Not me. I've never heard anything about an abuse of the Patriot Act.

Good insight and thanks for the post. The NYT would be all over something like this if there were an abuse. If they don't have anything it's probably because there is nothing there.

[RTINSC]

You won't read stories because the media doesn't want Americans to know about the Democrat-AlQueda connection and the secret appeasement negotiations proffered by the Democrats. It is rumored that Russ Feingold has offered Bin Laden unlimited free cheese if he doesn't attack Milwaukee.

[Lokibob]

Have you made a cash deposit of over $1,000 to your bank account since 9/11? Chances are the Patriot Act has caused the bank to fill out a form if they are the least suspicious of where you got the money.

I deposited $1600 once, and the clerk casually asked what the source of the funds were. I told her that it was slot machine winnings at a local casino. She said congratulations etc. They never ask if it is a check or a funds transfer.

A friend paid cash for some furniture he bought, and the salesman had to ask the same question, "What is the source of this money". HMMMMMM

IMHO, it isn't anybodies business where I get $1100. Of course, they will say they are making sure drug money doesn't get into the system.

Do a goggle search using the term "patriot act abuses" and you will find a lot of articles out of the MSM on abuses. Most, of course, are liberal slanted, but some are true.

Who would complain a little old lady got her money back from a con artist that had provisions of the Patriot Act used against him?

Remember, little by little, they are taking away your personal liberties.

It is like the salami that bit by bit, a little at a time, they take a small piece of your salami. Not enough to fight over, but in the end, all you will wind up with is the string.

[rlmorel]

"...where are all the stories about people who have had their civil liberties so egregiously violated?"

Don't give the liberals any encouragement. They will make up stories the same way they did with Sen. McCarthy...as a well known conservative writer so accurately states regarding the horrors of McCarthyism "One would think you couldn't walk down the street in the 50's without the body of some poor, maligned innocent victim of McCarthyism throwing themselves off the top of a building and landing on top of you..."

[jonathonandjennifer]

According to the Gun Owners of America, as of a week ago the "renewal" of the Partiot Act included new language which would allow the FBI to seize and copy all gun purchase records from all gun sellers without the knowledge of the gun purchasers. This would be defacto gun registration, the first serious step on the road to tyranny.