List Folk-- I agree about having people read the Patriot Act II. B. Crimmins' point about the way the U.S. government (different from the U.S. [I guess]) is curtailing liberties at home in the name of broader liberties in Iraq is well made. Tonight I will hear Nina Totenberg speak. According to the paper, one of the main topics she'll talk on is exactly that--the Patriot Act and the federal judiciary's (incl. the Supreme Court's) role in enforcing it. I think we'd better keep an eye on Orrin Hatch (R Utah). I think he's the one who wants to extend the Act past its sunset of '05, which sunset was the way it got passed a year ago? Worse yet, he's being named as a likely nominee for the Supreme Court, when, this summer, one or two justices (Rehnquist, for one) are expected to resign. Oh, oh. Terry Oggel