What is the Taft-Hartley Act?

Does the Patriot Act Really Work? What's your opinion?

• I think it's a fallacy in the idea that the Patriot Act, or any other law, can actually stop criminals. The Brady bunch of laws hasn't stopped a criminal from buying guns. Terrorists will find a workaround, too. The Patriot Act doesn't even act as a deterrent. Remember, The 9-11 terrorists only had boxcutters, and I'll bet they didn't bother to read any laws. The Patriot Act makes suspects out of honest people, and violates the rights of innocent people, the people that laws are supposed to protect. The Patriot Act is a perversion of the law. The President and all the rest of these public servants who act more like they are our rulers took an oath to uphold the Constitution, not disregard it, and not pass whatever laws they want as if the Constitution did not exist. What they do sounds more like treason to me -- or at least a great reason to kick them out of their offices onto their smug asses. Remember: the purpose of the Constitution is to protect you from your government.

• Answer:

  It probably works to some degree. We've managed to prevent some terrorist actions as a result of it...although at the expense of diminishing the authority of the U.S. Constitution. I'm a believer in slippery slopes so I imagine the logical end to all of this is to preempt every potentially illegal action by putting the entire population of the country into prison...just to be on the safe side.