<p> What better evidence than &#34;<a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmao3Tg9nvBQeAOMAVzmeZkrmAoAD9E4QD501">Patriot Act renewed</a>&#34;.</p> <p> Parenthetically, you want to know what&#39;s destroying our way of life? It&#39;s not Healthcare Reform, (which would save lives and money and infringe your freedoms not at all), and it&#39;s not the fiscal stimulus (which even Republican economists agree helped keep unemployment from growing and the economy from slowing even more than it has), it&#39;s the continuous encroachment of the <a href="http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html">law-enforcement elements of our government on our civil liberties under the guise of making us safer</a>. It is the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082302056.html">intelligence agencies conspiring with communication companies to relieve us of our right to privacy using warrantless surveillance</a> who are <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9872969-38.html">then let off the hook for breaking the law</a>. It is our <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/118006/Slim-Majority-Wants-Bush-Era-Interrogations-Investigated.aspx">willingness to approve of immoral acts done in our name</a>.</p>