Interesting.
It Should Make Your Skin Creep
From the most recent edition of CRYPTO-GRAM comes this:
The Patriot Act and Mission Creep
One of the problems with laws is that the crimes that justify their passage are not always the crimes they are used against. In the United States, the RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations) law was passed to help fight organized crime, but was used against anti-abortion protesters and relatively minor drug offenders. And the Patriot Act, passed to help fight terrorism, is being used against a variety of other crimes. ….
white pebble 