If so you'll probably see me in the gulag with you..
Many here applaud and defend the Patriot Act and would like to see Senator Hatch's Victory Act become law. These new laws give the government incredible new powers and increases the scope of government in our lives. We now have secret courts (FISA) and sneak and peek searchs where agents of the government may enter and search your home with a warrant from this secret court. And the delays in notification that your home was searched can be almost indefinite.
All I can say is this: To those enemies of liberty, those who would take away my right to privacy, my right to free travel, my right to the sanctity of my home. To those who would scare Americans with phantoms of lost security, I say you are no patriots. I say that you have lost touch with what America should be, with the reason it was founded. America was to be a place where the government was weak, where the citizenry were strong. America was to be a place where liberty is more important than all else. You, gentlemen, have lost sight of this. You think that being an American patriot means towing a certain political line. Nothing could be further from the truth.
These enemies of American liberty take away your freedoms by telling you that these steps are necessary for your security. Yet these very same people who take away your liberty in the name of security fail to fund first responders adequately. These very same people who take away your liberty fail to check incoming container ships for weapons of mass destruction. If these people really wanted to protect the American people they wouldn't need to take away our liberty. They could install radiation sensors in ports. They could adequately fund first responders. They could further improve airport and border security. But they don't. Instead they take away your privacy rights. Instead they surveil people involved in dissent. Instead they indefinitely detain — without charges and based on secret evidence — American citizens
From reading the "SEC. 215. ACCESS TO RECORDS AND OTHER ITEMS UNDER THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT." of the PATRIOT ACT you are refering to (FISA) it seems to me that a judge(s) needs to be involved in every case and there is Congressional oversight to the whole process.