Reply #23: Yet

[Zomby Woof]

All of those otherwise positive developments are no match for a multibillion dollar propaganda machine called "the media".

With a population of 300 million, I will change my opinion when we get upwards of let's say, 151 million. If we're not even at 1%, we're not very close.

The Patriot Act need not exist in order for law enforcement to stymie our civil liberties. They have ways around it, and have for many, many years. The Patriot Act was just window dressing put on as a way of Congress and the Justice Department pretending to be "tough on terror". But it was never necessary to meet its ends.