One must wonder how in this unprecedented age of global terrorism & war on terrorism how Ashcroft can honestly divert law enforcement resources to police porn industry 2257 records especially when true predators are on the loose elsewhere.

http://www.avn.com/index.php?Primary_Navigation=Articles&Action=View_Article&Content_ID=106576

Unbelievable waste of resources.Fuck Bush and Ashcroft.Their days in power are almost over.

This is why the patriot act must be repealed or at the very least reformed to give us as Americans our right back to us. Their happy neocon days are almost over thanks Christ!

Gag Her, how is the Patriot act screwing with you? What rights has it taken away from you? They are not using the patriot act to fuck with porn, unless of course some saracen is funnelling porn money to terrorists.

The patriot act is screwing with everyone, you don't have to be name Amed and wear a towl on your head for the goverment to want to take a look at you my friend. Look, learn, and listen! It aint no good for anybody!

Patriot Act info in case you are wondering:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html

interesting article on it...

A Guide to the Patriot Act, Part 1
Should you be scared of the Patriot Act?

http://slate.msn.com/id/2087984/

I'm all for fighting terrorists, but what scares people is the fact it has the potential to be misused ala Section 215. What's section 215? quoted from the slate article:
"What it does: Section 215 modifies the rules on records searches. Post-Patriot Act, third-party holders of your financial, library, travel, video rental, phone, medical, church, synagogue, and mosque records can be searched without your knowledge or consent, providing the government says it's trying to protect against terrorism."

However, the 2257 inspections are just a misguided attempt at battling conduct that is festering elsewhere other than the porn industry, but the reasonable fear about this portion of the Patriot Act is that these new powers have the potential to be used for the wrong purpose. I agree with you most people are just having irrational knee-jerk reactions to the Patriot Act w/o ever realizing exactly why or even reading the damn thing!

Smut,I agree with you . I don't like the Patriot act but what else do we have to fight these terrorists within our country, so I am willing side with it to do so. As far as that article about going through your records as it presently stands I don't think the government would use this to prosecute anyone who wasn't a terrorist , funder of terrorism or a supporter of terrorism because it would be to open to lawsuits as the stated purpose of the bill is to fight terror.You know the ACLU and media will keep a hawk eye on the cases that are prosecuted with evidence from this act so it should be used against terrorists only.
If there were another way to weed out this element in Americas without stepping on your rights I would be all for it but until then Patriot is all we have.