In case you missed it, the federal government used the "sneak and peek" warrant provisions [1] of the Patriot Act to bust up the Cock County cockfighting scene. It seems we have forgotten that the "Patriot" in "Patriot Act" stands for "Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism," (you can thank John Ashcroft for the tortured acronym, which along with color coded terrorist threat charts are keeping America safe from terrorist attacks since 2001). Not that I'm trying to defend it, but can someone explain when cockfighting became "terrorism"? First they came for the cockfighters... Michael Silence has more here [2] and here [3], and Joe Powell comments [3] re. the ever expanding threat to civil liberties.