Hi Guys, sorry for not responding to your responses sooner. And thanks for responding!
The thing is, I'm having a hard time articulating why something like the Patriot Act violates our religious beliefs. I feel it in my gut, but I'm having a hard time explaining it in words.
So the govt may be monitoring our emails in search of terrorists. Theorectically, the only time they would act is if they find evidence of such. So if I'm not engaging in any terrorist activity then the govt may monitor my emails and I may not even know about it. So if nothing happens to me, if functionally my life is the same as if they weren't monitoring me, then how is that violating my inherent dignity? I'm not saying that it's not. I feel that it is. But I can't figure out how to argue it.