Dale writes: I honestly believe this act will definately protect us from future acts of terror.

How now, brown cow? How would the shredding our bill of rights have protected us against what happened back on 9/11/01? And they are going to get all this streamlining done within one year? Yeah, right. In the 14+ months since the attacks how has this regime made us safer? By issuing vague geranimals threats? Gee, what's today's color - I don't want to clash!

The feds, which can't/won't even enforce laws and safeguards we already have on the books, think that by having more laws that we'll be safer? They don't need to take away the citizen's rights in order to better share information within the various agencies, they just need leaders in those respective departments that are focused on the big picture and not on protecting and expanding their own fiefdoms.

You want to use some parchment to make us all safer? How about a big fat declaration of war on Saudi Arabia! You want to stop some terrorism? Go ahead and put our soldiers in harms way and seal off the border next time we have bin Laden surrounded. And while they're at it go ahead and shove a dozen cruise missile up Arafat's bunghole. You want to stop funding maniacal governments? Finally address the stranglehold those freaks have on us by making a Manhattan Project-type effort to find alternate fuel sources. And end the ridiculous "war on drugs" that does nothing but make drug dealers get wealthy and kill.