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How did this Republic survive all these years, against so many enemys, without a Patriot Act? Don't tell me it's because the world is now smaller than it was - that line doesn't wash.

For over a generation Soviet agents have walked the streets of American cities plotting ways to damage and destroy our way of life, but they were stopped without a Patriot Act.

In the 1940's Japanese and German saboteurs also walked the streets of our cities trying to cause death and destruction, but they too were stopped without a Patriot Act.

We now have another enemy to our way of life walking the streets of our cities, but this time we have a judiciary that's willing to subvert the Constitution in order to stop them and they have allies in the Congress.

The People seem to have little to say about what's being foisted upon them in the name of security, and some welcome the idea without a thought to future consequences. They seem to think more laws equal more security. They're fools, but fools who vote.

Once a law is on the books it's very difficult to remove it even if it has a time limit. Once the guarantees of the Constitution are usurped they too will be very difficult to reobtain. The idea is not to give up any freedoms. This may make the Feds job harder, but if it comes to the Feds having to sweat more or Constitutional rights I'll take the latter.

If the idea of those crazies on 9/11 was to change the American way of life then they succeeded. Go to an airport, and look at the donut cops with automatic machine guns, for proof of that. Those same crazies gave a green light to some in government, with a Pax Americana mentality, to come down hard on Constitutional rights. Socialism in this country is scary, but at the other extreme Facism is even scarier.

So, the post 9/11 government mentality has taken away some Constitutional rights with others being looked at, instituted a semi-police state, instituted a siege mentality among the American people, and none of this has stopped the bad guys.

The point to remember on all this is that it's the Judiciary that's out on point as far as suspending Constitutional law. There's a bunch of intelligence agencies out there doing their job without asking for Constitutional changes. Only the judicial branch, whose role is to protect our Constitutional rights at all cost, has gone that far. This is the same Judiciary packed with unelected law-makers wielding unaccountable power. Think about that.