What else would the PATRIOT act do? That's a particularly malicious psychological trick on the part of the miserable bastards who named it. It doesn't so much matter that it's obvious.
Somehow, I don't think the bastards were hoping for the kind of "Patriotism" I have in mind: Large caliber guns to protect our constitutional freedoms, or at least to make it damn costly for individuals to carry out orders trying to take them away.
-TD
