Hmmm.
i'm pretty sure everyone that knows me is going to be rather surprised to hear this, but...
i have, for the record, read the USAPATRIOT Act cover to cover, and what i've found is that most of the bad press it's getting is misguided, underinformed and mostly baseless. Contrary to UCLA press (Which i support very much, but not in this case) the Patriot Act does not grant the government any new powers. If there is fault to be found with the Patriot Act, it lies with overbearing legislation that already existed, and overzealous enforcers exploiting loopholes in it. In several cases, in fact, the Patriot Act grants an average citizen more privacy than the previous leislation allowed for. However, i'm totally open to debate on the subject.

Courtesy.