Do they think if we destroy our freedoms for the terrorists they will no longer have a reason to attack us?

I take my marching orders from the Constitution.

Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Your money has never been safe in the government's hands, and it never will be. Governments spend money; it's just their nature.

My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

It is true that liberty is not free, nor is it easy. But tyranny - even varying degrees of it - is much more difficult, and much more expensive. The time has come to rein in the federal government, put it on a crash diet, and let the people keep their money and their liberty.