[Zeebadee]

"... will only get worse as long as people condone these attrocities of civil rights"

The government has discovered that the people are willing, even eager, to give up rights guaranteed them by the Constitution for a sense of "security", even if it's only an illusion.

Those that point to the loss of 3000 or so lives on 9/11 as evidence of the need to cede the protections of the Bill of Rights ought to be considering how many lives have been lost gaining and maintaining those same rights over the last couple of hundred years.