In your willingness to overlook this extension of power by the feds, you neglect to consider the absolute antipathy that the government has (and so many Americans have) for our 2nd Amendment rights.
Very few of the FR PATRIOT Act cheerleaders believe in a literal view of the 2nd Amendment.
61 posted on 11/20/2003 8:54:03 AM PST by jmc813
(Michael Schiavo is a bigger scumbag than Bill Clinton)