Yes, and the left makes itself look stupid and hyperbolic by stressing this issue so much, to the exclusion of the bigger problem, which is the continuing upward transfer of wealth and downward creation of danger and disease.
The Bill of Rights has not been suspended. Courts are already finding parts of the Patriot Act unconstitutional. The vast majority of people have not lost any rights yet. True, the PA is a terrible precedent, but painting it as Hitler's wedge is crazy and politically suicidal.