"I have YET to hear one American tell me in detail how the Patriot Act has had a detrimental affect on their freedoms.. "
Most likely you'd not hear from someone who'd experience a detrimental affect on thier freedomsr under the Patriot Act as the due process went out the window. They wouldn't necessarily know thier financial records, emails, house or apartment have been reviewed and searched or that thier phone is tapped. They could also be incommunicado and not have access to a lawyer while they are being "questioned" and "detained" without charges having been filed against them.
But hey. It's your perogative to believe the Patriot Acts are neat and what "we" need. The real truth is you have YET to listen to anyone who's tried to tell you or they failed to hit that magic button that makes the light go on overhead. Your mind is made up and no amount of posting of information or opinion will change that.
However, please, just stop trying to make it sound like the Patriot Acts are innocent, innocuous and for "our" own good. If the US government and Department of Homeland Security were truly serious about protecting the American public then they could have started by spending the money on the available technologies that exist right now and which could do it.
Or else I'll start ranting that the US needs more gun control legislation as only bad people, like terrorists, do bad things with guns and true patriotic, law abiding citizens would have nothing to worry about any further restrictions on thier firearms...