My friends? That's it's an Orwellian nightmare designed to legitimize encroachment in everyone's basic freedoms in the name of protecting the U.S. from a nebulo

My friends? That's it's an Orwellian nightmare designed to legitimize encroachment in everyone's basic freedoms in the name of protecting the U.S. from a nebulous exaggerated threat. The average American? Who knows? But in any case, even the most political informed of my friends wouldn't know what H.R.3162 is without a Google search, nor would they remember the number even if news articles referred to it constantly that way. Section 215 is mentioned all the time and I still need to think every time whether it is the "keep a record of everyone you call" section, the "spy on your web browsing" section or the "force companies to secretly spy for the government" section. Short of being a lawyer I don't see how I would remember H.R.3162 better than "PATRIOT Act".