[Doctor Stochastic]

What would have been wrong with reckless endangerment? Perhaps this was Gary Hart's real intention when he wrote the Patriot Act. All anti-social behavior is terrorism.

[NJ_gent]

"All anti-social behavior is terrorism."

It's far worse than that, I'm afraid. It's more along the lines of "any act deemed 'bad' is potentially an act of terrorism entirely at the disgretion of whoever is in a position of power at the time". Hillary's enforcement of the PATRIOT ACT would be far, far worse than this. I'd hardly call it paranoia to say that the incredibly broad language of PATRIOT could be stretched to the point of enforcing a perfectly legal police state. 'Evidence' could be collected entirely in secret, warrants issued in secret, and now, American citizens arrested and detained in secret with no recourse against the government. Now let's see - who might someone like Hillary want "investigated" ("FIND something NOW!"), arrested, and detained in secret?

PATRIOT, TIA, etc are all fantastic if you place absolute trust that no agent of the government will ever abuse power, authority, and disgretion, and if that holds true. The problem is, we do sometimes get less than trustworthy people in seats of power throughout the government.