Under the PATRIOT Act, Americans' rights of privacy, including their reading habits, could be scrutinized by the FBI. Protestors—even peaceful ones—can be charged with terrorism. Dissenters are often denied the right to fly on commercial airlines. In Bush's target have been Greenpeace and the Quakers. Like China's leaders, America's leaders say these restrictive measures only exist to protect the nation.
On John McCain's '
Tech Plan':
... This isn’t vision. It’s more like a wistful memoir about times gone by.
... The US has shown that its volunteer military, while valiant, is undermanned and overstretched, its intelligence services are willing servants of political manipulators and its leadership is dishonest, immoral and incompetent. It's understandable that somebody out there would think that now is the time to make a move. That it would be Bush's soul brother Pooty-poot was entirely predictable.”
The bottom line on all of these arguments is that men’s feelings are more important than women’s rights. 
Now that's a surprise:
... What shocked her, she says, was Americans' ignorance of foreign affairs, obsession with money, and willingness to make long-haul commutes. Per the top 'law' enforcement officer in the United States of America, formerly a nation of laws, Attorney General Michael Mukasey:
... But not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.”I guess I just don't think it's fear mongering or divide-and-conquer to tell the truth, which is that the Republicans have screwed things up royally and that the Democrats have a better idea. ...
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