The government and your phone records.

Publius has a nice post on why Americans may not care that their phone records are being collected by the government. In addition to my previously stated concerns that too much power is pooling up in the hands of a few individuals, the whole internal spying issue rubs me the wrong way, because I always thought we were stronger than we are.

Once upon a time Americans said things like "Give me liberty or give me death." Now we endorse secret police programs.

Once upon a time America stood a perpetual 20 minutes away from WWIII and global annihilation. Now we live in fear of disgruntled jihadis who have to hijack airplanes to kill a few thousand of us.

We've lost something.