Why The Patriot Act Matters

Watch what you link to.

A federal judge sentenced a man to a year in prison Monday for creating an anarchist Web site with links to sites on how to build bombs.

Austin said he took a plea bargain because he feared his case was eligible for a terrorism enhancement, which could have added 20 years to his sentence. The plea deal had called for him to serve four months.

Bad judgement. Previous cases have held that you are not publishing by linking to a site. Still, four months or over twenty years, you can see why Austin pleaded.