Katherine

I think we are in agreement about proactivity.

I have read the Patriot Act, and the surprising thing is the level of care taken in there to protect civil liberties. Almost all of the well publicized complaints about the act were simply lies.

Somehow, a good act was drawn up. I believe one person in the Justice Department did the primary work, although the whole thing is quite long.

There might be one or two areas that need tuning up, but our national inability to debate such issues rationally meant that it was a simple up/down sort of discussion and vote.

I do wish they had come up with another name. Everybody I know who is nervous about the government (which seems to be everybody) was immediately made suspicious by the name.