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As a US citizen, I don't feel that any of my civil liberties have been infringed here in the US due to the war on terror.
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You don't consider illegal wiretapping an infringement? Do you believe that by taking the Judiciary Branch out of the chain as an overseer to this kind of survellience, that your personal and civil liberties aren't being compromised? Let's say, for example, that YOUR position at the financial institution you work for comes under scrutiny due to "faulty intelligence" (it happens, look at WMDs) and you're suspected of co-operating with a "terrorist cell". Your phone is tapped, your workplace is brought under survellience, and one night, you're whisked away to Gitmo and held as a "terrorist sympathizer".
The very same system that is being put in place to "protect" you, is revoking your personal and civil liberites. Your recourse to legal counsel and representation vaporizes under the guise of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act.
Intelligence has seldom been 100% accurate. Ask some of those who lost years of their lives at Gitmo due to inaccurate intelligence and faulty accusations...
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I have already witnessed financial transactions and loans stopped by the Pat act because the folks doing it were dirty, or were tied to terrorist organizations.
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We didn't need the Patriot Act to freeze or stop "illicit or illegal" transactions before. Why does it need to happen now?
There is a much larger and more sinister picture... This system, Homeland Security and the Patriot Act aren't just for the here and now, it's for the future. And anyone who thinks it's "protecting them" is being deluded...
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I personally would like to see more in the way of profiling and what should be common sense types of things that aren't allowed due to political correctness.
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Be careful what you wish for...