[mbynack]

My liberal family members are always talking about how conservatives are curtailing personal freedom. They cite limits on abortion, restrictions on Fetal Stem cell research, and the Patriot Act as examples. When I talk to them about Fast and Furious, they tell me that this type of thing is okay because it’s for the good of the public because guns are evil and cause murders.

[OneWingedShark]

The Patriot Act is one point they are spot on about; it is a huge pile of dung from which grew our current TSA (who by their very nature violate the 4th Amendment as a matter of standard procedure).