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I look at the Patriot Act the same way I do these programs. Unconstitutional. When governments start picking and choosing which laws they'll follow and which they'll set aside, bad things tend to happen. Starts out as a good thing, hardly ever ends that way.

Reminds me of the CIA sending bags of cash to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. That program started out as a way to pretty MVP guarantee his cooperation, but in fact it ended with CIA still paying him while he publicly accused us of working with the Taliban, who without us being there would have his head dragged through Kandahar, among many other accusations. He kept it up and the cash kept coming, without either Bush or Obama knowing.

I'm to the point where I can hardly trust our government any more. Many people are already there, but I've always been a glass half full type. Getting left out to dry multiple times while in built up quite a bit of disdain for suits sitting behind desks and the entire apparatus really, and all the things that have came out in these last 8 months have just solidified that.