Communities against the Patriot Act

While looking through Electronic Frontier Foundation I saw a link that brought me to the American Civil Liberties Union website that gave me a list of communities that are against the Patriot Act and have passed resolutions against it. Since the Patriot Act was passed there have been forty-three states that have had 401 communities to make up a total of 62 million people that have challenged the Patriot Act. The last community on the site to pass a resolution was Bristol, Rhode Island that was in 2005 which makes you wonder how many more communities have passed resolutions since. Here are a few segments from the Bristol's resolution:

WHEREAS, the residents of Bristol cherish their political and civil rights and liberties based upon the Constitution and Bill of Rights; and

WHEREAS, full recognition is taken of the serious nature of the current threats to the United States and its citizens which prompt dynamic actions to defend ourselves and our way of life; and

WHEREAS, the citizens of Bristol, thus, wish to insure that the PATRIOT ACT and related executive orders do not significantly erode our fundamental constitutional protections, including but not limited to due process, the right of privacy, the right to counsel, protection against unreasonable search and seizure and all basic freedoms of the Bill of Rights.

Makes me think about a quote of Benjamin Franklin, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"