I still can't believe that the "Black Helicopters of the UN" people, the Patriot Movement from the late 1990s and other right-wing wackos are not just going nuts about the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act extended federal government reach in ways never even dreamed of during the Clinton Administration.

In my mind this shows one of 2 things -- (1) these people are still trying to reconcile being against the concept with the fact that they support the creators of the legislation (in which case they will go nuts if a Democratic administration ever comes into office) or (2) they all just needed a real crisis around which to center their lives and now they have that in the "Global War On Terror" and no longer need the old conspiracy theories.