You are wrong, very wrong, but because you've been trained to think that way, you'll never see the error in your thinking.
You think that just because the national government has the power to punish someone, that means the law they use to punish is legal. The one who knows the truth of inalienable Rights isn't persuaded by punishment.
No, you are misreading my statements...but it is because we are talking about two different things. I am talking about the Patriot Act, what it says and what it doesn't say. You are talking about beliefs and religion and everything except the law as it is written. We are talking on parallel lines.
Unfortunately, they didn't specify all of the rights they considered self evident. As just one example of the erosion of Rights since, compare Property Rights then and now.