How long has the Patriot Act been in effect? Three years? I've seen a list of 9-11 type terrorist attacks that have been foiled because of the Act. Can someone give me a single example of how the powers of the Act have been abused?
No, and such proof is practically impossible to produce, as the Patriot Act is very effective in preventing the production of such evidence, as I pointed out in posts #96 and #102 (in which I quoted from the USA PATRIOT Act itself).
As for your list of 9-11 type terrorist attacks that have been foiled because of the act, care to produce it? I was under the impression that such information was kept "secret" so as not to compromise our resources, seeing as loose lips sink ships...
Oh, and by the way - there is nothing patriotic about supporting the increase of government power to solve society's problems. It doesn't work for poverty and it doesn't work for terror. 9/11 did not magically make the classical Conservative principle that government tends to be an abysmal failure at most things it tries to do suddenly wrong.