Originally Posted by Dovster
I was (and still am) strongly opposed to the Patriot Act and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. (Indeed, something about the names of these two makes my skin crawl.)
Agreed. The PATRIOT Act has one of those contrived names that uses all of the letters of the word 'patriot' as the initials. I'm ALWAYS leery of something that stupid. And, refuse to learn the true name of the thing.
"The Department of Homeland Security" sounds much like The Committee for State Security, or USSR's KGB.
Giving up liberty as the price of 'security' does indeed seem a bit dumb, eh?