Privacy, what with the NSA and all, is it not the most vital freedom we should be pursuing this day? Is it a matter the Founding Fathers could not see, but one that is now upon us that we should be seeking to assert and defend, even as we have pledged to be vigilant and guard our freedoms?
Or, are we to just understand that this is the nature of our times, that things are "shouted upon the roof tops," that we simply live in a day when our phone records and comments on the Internet and things that we do, by nature of our times, are public and open to see. Do we say, Freedom is not the right to keep secrets, and an open society is not a bad thing.
I consider the truth of both sides. I am not prepared to choose which thought I hold the closer to.
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