Of course homeland security needs PATRIOT for real ACTIVITIES which, like any organized crimes, betoken anarchistic or enemy foreign agent style endeavors; but the object isn't just to make EVERYTHING anybody at all can be doing/saying, supporting/protesting, or remaining silent upon a "sign" of "interest"...IS it?

Wherefore, it seems logical to re-authorize USA PATRIOT, perhaps for ten years at a pace, like all other laws, so that in the nature of RICO, FISA, and similar laws, America (and perhaps the world) are safer from bona fide terrorist and enemy agent types operating outside even RICO type statutes to a much more deadly end; at the same time, the Kennedy-inspired STANDARDS Act should be built into ANY re-authorization of USA PATRIOT, to ensure that its mission doesn't creep into just about everything even normal people of earth do.