Personally, I don't need anyone to tell me WHY Patriot shouldn't be renewed. I need to know WHAT Kerry will put in it's place. I already know what Bush's position is. I need to know what Kerry's position is on renewing the act.

Kerry's propaganda says:

"That starts with replacing the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties at the same time."

But doesn't say how Kerry's new law would protect us and our liberties at the same time, because it doesn't state what would be in his new law.

Then Kerry says:

"Much of what is in Patriot Act are good ideas."

So why does he want to let the act lapse and write a new one? And BTW, civil libertarians (including myself) disagree with this statement, period. We civil libertarians think the Patriot Act is a terrible law, and so John Kerry telling me that much of it is good isn't going to fly with me.

"I will propose new anti-terrorism laws that advance the War on Terror while ending the assault on our basic rights."

Again, if Kerry voted for this bill because it was "good enough" and says much of it is good, why do we need more anti-terrorism legislation? I think that in the wake of 9/11 that Congress passed way too much anti-terrorism legislation. I don't support the proposal of even more anti-terrorism legislation, because I want to see what has already been passed overturned, and the focus of our nation's attention put back on the issues that truly matter to we the people, and not the plutocrats running the nation into the ground.