Please read.
We aren't safer.. We are the same as we were, the only difference is now we have less rights. Rights taken away from us in the name of safety... built on lies that our government wants us to believe in order to control us. The patriot act was the first step in making martial law without bringing military force. Think about it...
patriot act 2 ****Further expands the reach of an already over broad definition of terrorism so that organizations engaged in civil disobedience are at risk of government wiretapping (secs. 120, 121) asset seizure (secs. 428, 428), and their supporters could even risk losing their citizenship (sec. 501); or being charged with "Domestic Terrorism", then they can do whatever they want to you.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
---Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.