[OWK]

The "Patriot Act" was the federal government bureaucrats' wet dream. They finally got everything they wanted. We have been fighting the banking industry's "Know Your Customer" privacy invasion for years, and now they have it.

Yup.

[sakic]

Don't disturb the lemmings who think the rest of us are lemmings.

[Registered]

Let's say that my conversation was taped or intercepted by the FBI during a wiretap of lines that ran to and from a terrorist's apartment complex...how could that be used against me in the court of law?

[Un-PC]

The "Republicans, right or wrong" mindset on this forum is pervasive. If these assaults on the Bill of Rights had occurred under a Democratic administration, most of the Freepers here would be enranged. But the same constitutional atrocities carried out by a Republican administration are applauded.

They should start calling this forum "Un-FreeRepublic." It's been taken over by war-mongering Republican party ideologues who believe the state should be given unlimited power to fight its "war on terrorism" -- a war that has become full-scale assault on our most precious freedoms.