Well apparently it wasn't the fear mongering of those in power that led to the Patriot Act and beyond. It wasn't the ever vigilant power elite recognizing an amazing opportunity to not just take away our freedoms and rights, but to have us willingly and most cheerfully surrender them in exchange for a lie of safety and security. Nope. Apparently the Patriot Act and all the undermining of the principles of liberty that followed was a direct result of The Civil Rights Act of 1964. Who knew?
Ron Paul Believes Segregation-Ending Civil Rights Act "Destroyed Privacy"
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews...ed_privacy%22/
This guy is like some kind of disease. But what is even scarier is that the right, the moneyed right, is made up of people who, at least privately, share these kinds of ideas. And they have too much money to go away.