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		<div id="comment_body_10707222"><p>Though the Patriot Act specifically hasn't affected me in any way I realize, the mentality the War on Terror brought to law enforcement, manifested in the Patriot Act, has.</p>

<p>In the summer of 2002 my family was in the middle of selling a house, and potential buyers were often touring, checking things out.</p>

<p>One couple with a digital camera was photographing the interior when they opened my room closet and discovered my trusty potato gun.  They decided it was a device of terror, photgraphed it, and forwarded the images to the state police when they got home.  My family and I didn't know until the next day, when some serious looking dudes showed up.</p>

<p>Luckily the police were relatively reasonable and left without incident, but the whole thing was disconcerting.</p>

<p>I came to realize that I feared the self-deputized public more than any law they could come up with in Washington.  Whenever the terror level goes up, and citizens are told to "be watchful," what does that really mean?  Eyeball dark-skinned people with foreign-looking head-dress, or poke around someone's house sneaking out pictures to send to the police?</p>

<p>I'll give our leadership the benefit of the doubt, and presume that they're not entirely aware of the shift in public thought they're sponsoring.  I couldn't propose a much better way of handling it all, either.  I just know that as an individual, living in America after 9/11, it's starting to be weird and suck and I hope that it doesn't get any worse.</p></div>
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