[Osborn F Enready]

I would love to see these "constitutencies" that are crying for things like the Patriot Act from someone other than a "CNN poll" or a "FOX poll". So far, the overwhelming majority of people I actually talk to are against the notion of more government induced security over the populace, and more concerned with border security, and airport security.

Also, I understand what you are saying about personal empathy, and that you feel my response was somewhat conspiratorial.

I am somewhat conspiratorial, for good reason.

Show me a point in our past since 1900, when our government relinquished power it had, by dissolving those bands of power, or giving that power back to the people.

The old saying, I would rather see 100 guilty men go free, than one innocent man put to death. That meaning has been lost due to the gluttony of luxury, and the disease of mis-information of the facts.

Lately, too many innocent people have been being put to death or hardship......

.....Iraqi civillians, people caught in the crossfire of government suspicion, news reporters being put in jail for leaking TRUTH, people being locked up under suspicion in places like Guantanimo for SUSPICION of acts of terror or people THOUGHT to POSSIBLY induce acts of terror, government provoking citizens to report anyone or anything they see that looks REMOTELY suspicious.

When you zoom out and focus on the big picture, it is to me obvious, but to many, still conspiracy theory.