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Originally Posted by DWB </thread> [N]o one seemed to give a shit about that. But take away their free porn and music and IT'S ON! People get the government they deserve. They should have been rioting in the streets over the Patriot Act but no one cared. Now it's only a matter of time before they control the internet. And the people have no one to blame but themselves when it happens ...

The media sold the necessity of the PATRIOT Act in the face of the new threat of domestic terrorism. There was uproar but in the civilized form of debate. Governments in succession added more measures to the law. I wish there was hope for stopping this slippery slope of the alienation of constitutional rights but as of now no champion has arisen to this cause -- hopefully that will happen and some sanity will be reestablished.

With the Draconian laws that followed, they proved that the terrorists had won with the rights of the victim citizens denied in the face of terrorist threat (real or perceived).

America needs to return to more normal times historically it always has.