OK, you guys convinced me and I think a warrant should be required to make arrests. I still think the other parts of the Patriot act increasing communication between different government agencies and allowing phone surveillance are good.

blue water pro, did you even read what I said? I said that mistreatment of middle easterners was WRONG. It is an unfortunate situation caused by radical islamists crashing airliners into the trade towers.

IF we only caught one bad guy for tens of thousands harrassed, then of course it wouldn't be worth it. Let me pull some numbers out of my ass like you did and show you how your logic failed. If we caught one bad guy for every ten harrassed, and that bad guy would have killed ten Americans, then we would have ten harrassed citizens instead of ten dead ones. Would you rather be annoyed or dead? Unless you have some real data, don't use numbers as evidence for your point of view.

Peace out, dudes