Patriot Act abuses plain

Where were you these past three years while, amid considerable publicity, our government was imprisoning people without making charges against them, holding them without trials, and not allowing them to talk to attorneys?
Where were you when Brandon Mayfield, the Oregon lawyer suspected of involvement in bombings in Spain, was held for two weeks without being charged until freed on evidence supplied by the Spanish government?
Where were you when, only six weeks after 9/11, the Congress made it legal to search your prescriptions, e-mails, bank and library records not because you are a suspicious person, but because someone who sent you an e-mail may be deemed a suspicious person?"