A QUICK DIP IN THE DOVE POND

WHAT'S IN A NAME? USA-PATRIOT ACT UNVEILED

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee lists the winning entries from a contest where the acronym 'USA-PATRIOT' had to expose the true purposes of the Act:

1st Place: Useless State-sponsored Action Purporting to Attack Terror While Really Initiating an Oligarchic Takeover

2nd Place: Unseemly and Simplistic Attempt to Preclude Americans' Treasured Rights by Inapt Obsession with Terrorism

3rd Place: Unilaterally Subverting America by Punishing Activists and Torturing and Repressing Immigrants by Oppression and Tyranny