Care to post a thread with specific details about the Patriot Act, and its effects? Myself, and I know most all here, care very deeply about the God-given unalienable rights that are delineated in our Bill of Rights.
I have a hunch that hardly anyone here could put their finger on any provisions that have affected those rights in any appreciable way. But if there are, I think FReepers generally would be more than happy to work hard to try help change those provisions. If you post such a thread, ping me, I would be happy to participate in the discussion.
But again, you gain nothing by withholding your support from the President at this point in history. The only beneficiaries are the Democrats.
I didn't like the first Patriot Act. If the sunset clause is lifted and the act is made permanent then addended to, I will make my decision based on my conscience as anyone else here should do.
I am not on a high horse or arguing that a disagreement is somehow unprincipled. Right now, I support the President. What I proposed was a hypothetical that may or may not come to pass. No more, no less.