[Hizonner]

> The patriot act was supported by everyone when it became law.

I was at the time a US citizen, and I thought it was moronic authoritarian bullshit. It was basically written by taking every obnoxious proposal that various cops and spies had been having trouble getting passed, shoving them all in one document, and rushing it through unexamined. In response to essentially no surprising new information, at that.

... and lots of other people said that.

I'll give you that the majority of you supported it, and that the people in Congress (who tend to have a personality type with a certain kind of blindness) supported it. "Everyone" didn't support it.