Patriot Act no more. Your thoughts?

We need to resist the urge to embrace the surveillance state, I'd like to see the entire Patriot act dismantled and trash caned.

The first rule of any Security Officer is "Threats To Security WILL Be Found.".

I was never a big fan of the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" for several reasons (not the least of which is the fact that I LOATHE convoluted legislative titles designed to produce cutsy acronyms.

There was very little contained in the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" that wasn't already available to law enforcement and/or security forces (albeit with MUCH better safeguards for Constitutional Rights and individual liberties) BUT the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001" made it easier for lazy people to look like they were doing their jobs well.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if an UNBIASED study were to show that there has been zero improvement in the level of security for the United States of America in the past 14 years - or, at least, no statistically significant one.

As long as ISIS and the other bands of sociopathic murderers persist in recruiting the "low hanging fruit" (and as long as there are "low hanging fruit" to be recruited) they are going to be able to attack the targets you don't think they are going to attack because you don't think of them as targets.

For example, what would the effect of taking down the Revelstoke Dam be?

Though MOST of the (misnamed) Patriot act is still in place, this IS a step in the right direction. Well done Senator Rand Paul et al.