We don't know how we missed this article detailing criticism of the the Patriot Act, especially since we're quoted in it, but we did. From March 23, 2003 Hartford Courant:

LEGALITY OF PATRIOT ACT QUESTIONED; SOME WORRY THE LAW INFRINGES ON CIVIL LIBERTIES by DIANE STRUZZI, Courant Staff Writer

From Seattle to New Haven, residents, librarians and municipalities are taking a stand. They're passing resolutions that reaffirm constitutional rights and take issue with some federal anti-terrorism laws enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks that they fear infringe on civil liberties.

....According to a running count maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union, they are among more than 60 municipalities nationally that have articulated opposition to several new laws designed to bolster the power of federal authorities to ferret out terrorists, including the USA Patriot Act....

....Critics of the USA Patriot Act -- which stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism -- argue that the act gives federal officials too much power to gain access to private records and compromises the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The ACLU and the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union have been at the forefront of the fight to roll back some of the laws. As part of the ACLU's "Keep America Safe and Free" campaign, it offers a model community resolution on its website, at www.aclu.org, and presents guidelines for how to get such a resolution passed. While supporters acknowledge the resolutions are mostly symbolic, they say the goal is to voice concern publicly.

"If you think that you can take our freedoms away from us in the name of some sort of security ... this is the shot across the bow," said Bruce Bellm, a Democratic councilman in Mansfield who supported the resolution there. ... It's exercising our freedom of speech with an eye toward preserving that freedom and the rest of the freedoms that we have."

....some librarians see the USA Patriot Act differently. Nancy Kranich, chairwoman of the American Library Association's intellectual freedom committee, says the Patriot Act has a chilling effect on libraries, places built on a foundation of open access to information. "The right to speak, view and read are some of the most fundamental rights," Kranich said. "People use libraries for their very democratic rights of free expression and their right to inquiry. ... Because I'm interested in learning more about Osama bin Laden, does that make me suspicious?"

...."You're in such a dilemma. We're not just librarians, we're Americans," Geoffino said. "We want to see everyone who did terrible deeds to be punished, but I have an obligation to safeguard the library, the privacy of the patrons and the perception by the patrons that the library as an organization is without an agenda. ...

For some, the concern centers on what the USA Patriot Act and other laws will mean for the future. Jeralyn Merritt, a Colorado lawyer and secretary of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers who has written about the Patriot Act, said she fears Americans will become accustomed to less privacy.

"They're going to accept it in the same way they accept metal detectors going into schools or security at airports, and I think that's very sad," she said. "I think it means the terrorists have won. They have succeeded in making us a less-free country."

There's lots more, we recommend reading the whole article.