[gooleyman]

To hell with that. Try undoing the decades-long assault on our rights. THEN worry about undoing the Patriot Act.

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Amen Prime Choice. We must first be alive. The terrorists would have us all dead. Then who would be left to challenge the taking of our rights. My understanding, not having read chapter and verse, is that law enforcement's hands were tied by dumb rules which kept the terrorists one step ahead of them at every turn. Some of the provisions I know of gave law enforcement an advantage over the terrorists. You can't expect to catch a terrorist if you have to tell him weeks in advance that you're coming after him.

The DemocRATS have slowly taken away our rights even without a 9/11 to fight for. Where were these people when that was going on. Like someone said above, THIS IS WAR. And a war we can't afford to lose. I, for one, would rather the terrorists have the death part and I'll keep the life part for myself.

The Patriot Act at least has sunset clauses that return some things back to the way they were. Where are the sunset clauses for the laws passed over the past 60 years? Where's the outrage over that?

[Dolphy]

The Patriot Act at least has sunset clauses that return some things back to the way they were

Exactly. The Patriot Act, though passed in haste, has many provisions that were long overdue. One need only look at the first World Trade Center attack and how it was handled, or mishandled, by the federal government. I have no doubt that there are things wrong in the Patriot Act but where is the evidence of the widespread choking of our civil liberties?