"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety," Benjamin Franklin in a reply to the Pennsylvania Governor from the Assembly, November 11, 1775.
The Patriot Act 0f 2001 implies that our nation is in a persistent state of war against both foreign powers and our own citizens, and has essentially suspended the rights granted to us by the Creator and affirmed in the Constitution of the United States of America.
It should be immediately repealed.