Ranting to /dev/null

Reports of the end of the world have been greatly exaggerated

The Patriot Act is the law that every liberal loves to hate. I've long thought that sure, it's bad, but it's not that bad, and there are indeed some things that it provides that need to be there, like information sharing between government agencies. There are, however, things that I have never been comfortable with, especially the short-circuiting of the subpoena process. But, I always said, that's why we have courts. If it really is as unconstitutional as the scaremongers say it is, then the first time it gets challenged in the courts it will be overturned. And that's what happened.