Interesting slant on it there rcgreen I am obviously not American, but I suspect the complaints are that the legislation is being brought in under the guise of counter-terrorism. That is; "through the back door".

As I mentioned, we have had this legislation in the UK for some time now (pre-9/11) and it came in "through the front door"...............sort of

Our "Income Tax" is quite amusing............it is a "temporary tax to finance the Napoleonic Wars", which I thought we had won some time ago? Still, because of this, it has to be re-approved every year