I don't care about burdens of proof, I just want to know what the actual facts are, i.e. whether the legislation is even close to being as horrible as the author suggests it is. I know the difference between propaganda, on the one hand, and reasoned argument on the other hand.
That said, Patriot I is a big fat POS, and our current politicians from all sides of the aisle voted it in without even reading the damn thing.
Now we have the obsessed freak Ashfcroft and fat-faced pro-death Ridge loving every minute of it. Meanwhile we let these scummy Islamists walk in and out of our country at will, and leave our borders wide open.
Yet we must look up the anus of every American citizen. After all, there may be a terrorist in there somewhere.
You wanna win the war on terror? Seal the borders and get rid of every male Arab non-citizen between the ages of 17 and 45. WOT over.
That would be too easy though, no power grabs and ego trips in that.
They all suck and can't keep anyone safe, get that though your head. They're having a blast incrementally ruining a free coutry.