[babyface00]

Go into almost any public building in New York these days. If you have a meeting scheduled for 10:00 AM, you'd better get there at 9:30 so you can wait on line with everyone else who needs to get put through the wringer.

That's it?! That's the government probing to which you refer? You do realize we've been attacked (recently, and in the very city to which you refer), we're in a (real shooting) war and there is still a real threat of terrorist attacks? This isn't happening in most of the rest of the country, BTW. Could it be because NYC was once a target?

I hope you can come up with some more substantial examples than that.

[Alberta's Child]

I gave you the most recent example (this morning) for me. You can also add the closure of my parking garage to anyone except monthly users (as if nobody who would park a car filled with explosives there would ever think of buying a monthly pass), the searching of my bag at almost any public building I enter, the additional forms I just had to fill out for my bank, identifying the reason for seeking a line of credit ("to comply with the U.S. Patriot Act"), etc.