It's amazing how far we are these days from the original concept of govt. laid out by our founding fathers.
For instance (and I think this would apply to the way we allow the govt. to spy on us)...the first coin ever produced by the United States Of America did NOT have "In God We Trust" on it.
Nope. It was designed by Benjamin Franklin and had "Mind Your Business" imprinted on it.
The founding fathers fought a very REAL war right here on this continent to be free. And we have been handing over those freedoms in increments ever since.
They would be very ashamed of us. They put together a rag-tag army and defeated the greatest military power on Earth to gain our freedom.
And here we are so fearful of some camel herders in the mideast that we voluntarily surrender those very freedoms.
I think that if Washington, Jefferson, Adams, etc. could be transported to the present day...they would get ropes and start hanging everyone in govt. for treason.