From being a vigilant free society to becoming a Stasi(former E.German police that had a dossier on almost all its Citizens) controlled authoritarian society wh

From being a vigilant free society to becoming a Stasi(former E.German police that had a dossier on almost all its Citizens) controlled authoritarian society where neighbors spy on each other is not that big a step. We have already lost a lot of freedom via the Patriot Act and the thought of losing more is scary. The price we pay for freedom is that terrorists could one day exploit that freedom to attack us.