Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel (Samuel Johnson, 1775). What, then, is the Patriot Act?
Logically, nothing about the Patriot Act or patriotism is implied by Johnson’s statement. All it means is that a scoundrel who has exhausted all other arguments takes refuge behind a facade of patriotism. It doesn’t say the scoundrel IS patriotic, or that all patriots are scoundrels. BTW, _I_ am not implying anything about the Patriot Act, either way. I’m just shooting at the illogicality of what this question implied.
