Back in the USSR

Every day, some media outlet interviews a man on the street or conducts a poll or takes a caller who tells us that he/she/it doesn't care if the government is spying on them, because they aren't doing anything wrong.

As long as it fights terrorists, they're fine with it.

Aside from the fact that the FBI says the warrantless wiretaps have hindered their counterterrorism efforts. Aside from the fact that the NSA is spying on Quakers, the absolute least likely people to blow up anything anywhere in this country. Aside from the fact that unchecked government power is always abused, no matter what the people in charge say ...

This is the United States of America! Warrantless wiretaps violate both the Constitution and federal statutes!

We fought an entire world war against the fascist governments of Europe for exactly this kind of behavior. We fought the Cold War against the Soviet Union precisely because their government did these things -- plus the whole free market thing.

If we let the government spy on us now, after all that, we're just spitting in the faces of every soldier who died on the beaches of Normandy and every Russian, Pole, Ukrainian and German who died fighting their oppressive governments and shadowy secret police.

If you want to live in a country where the government can spy on you at will in the name of security, move to China, move to Saudi Arabia, move to Egypt.

Just move. I don't care where, but get the hell out of my country. If you don't want to defend the rights that come with your American citizenship, you deserve neither.