From DailyKos (http://dailykos.com/)

....When the domestic spying program first broke, some Americans brushed it off, since it purportedly listened only to those suspected of terrorism. But what Americans need to understand is that this most recent disclosure means that every American is a potential terror suspect. Every. Single. One.

So the government monitors your calls. Every. Single. One. Day after day, month after month, year after year. Legal issues aside, the government's actions mark a disturbing change (regression?) in the relationship between a citizen and its government. Where government is inherently established to protect its citizens, it is now operating to protect itself from them.

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Nice, eh?

Rugg's note:

It is interesting to think of the word "Constitution."

We, the people, constituted our government to protect our liberties and rights, and to form a more perfect union. It is interesting that the founders viewed things this way.

It is important to remember that our government never granted --and never had the power to grant-- the people (us) our liberties and rights--and nor may it, therefore, take them away. We, the people, who have these unalienable rights, granted our government "powers" in order to protect them....

Time to take it back, folks.

--Rugg

P.s. However, I do think the constitution should have said, "We the people, and certain Rodians,...."