[Mia]

Absolutely. First, Arab-americans are in deep-doo. In times of "war" the administration can pretty much do whatever it wants. It's rarely exercised here, at least % wise.

But, rmnunez, when you say it doesn't affect "our citizens yet" there are two problems with that. One, people in our country who are not citizens are still entitled to human rights. 2)IT DOES affect our citizens right now. And not just our Arab-americans.

Anyone associated with the "wrong people", knowingly or unknowingly, can have their email and phones tapped into. My boyfriend is from Syria. He holds dual citizenship. This is a country the US is after right now. I'll bet a million dollars my privacy is gone right now along with his.

So I may not be being held in custody, but my rights are being trampled on if I am correct.

What if you chat with the "wrong person" on the internet and suddenly your private conversations are being listened to by the CIA?

I firmly believe that we have enough intelligence capability in our hands to avoid stripping ordinary citizens of their privacy.

I wasn't against the act at first - I was like you and wanted to trust my government. Then I thought through all the implications and the examples of abuse in the past every time things like this were given to people in power.