Mr. Galati merely stated the truth. Under the Patriot Act, agents of my government may now enter and search my home without a warrant; they never have to tell me about it until whatever they've found is accepted as evidence at my trial. I can be also imprisoned without charges and denied a writ of habeus corpus, while there is no time limit for them to determine my "status". Benjamin Franklin was indeed prescient in 1755: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”