In these high-risk days, we need to stop Johnny and Suzie Terrorista from being able to shield their private information from Uncle Sam's prying eyes. Thankfully, there are heroes out there, like U.S. Principal Deputy Director of National Security, Donald Kerr. Mr. Principal Deputy Director of National Security Kerr has an important job, and an impressively long job title to prove it. (And of course, the PDDoNS makes an important point.) In this dangerous world we live in, your privacy has to be shared with the government, and since we are all the government, it will become our privacy. Your privacy has to be our privacy because we have no idea if there are bombs in your privacy, but if it's our privacy, we can protect us from you, (the you who is the nation.)

The history of privacy begins with the Magna Carta. Some of you "history buffs" out there may disagree with this statement, but that's Osama bin Laden's attitude so I think we can all agree that "history buff" is simply another word for "terrorist." The Magna Carta was imposed on some English king by a bunch of nobles who wanted the King to stop taking their stuff. What the founders of our great nation failed to realize was that in America there were not going to be any nobles or kings, and therefore the very idea of putting together the Fourth Amendment prohibiting illegal search and seizure was utterly ludicrous! Thankfully, modern government seeks to fix that lapse.

Privacy's joyful death knell came from the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001. Remarkably, the first letters of each of those words came together to form USA PATRIOT Act, which clearly could have been nothing less than the universe itself giving a holistic sign that the act was just. This wonderful, bi-partisan act gave United States Intelligence operatives the right to go into libraries and find out what books people were reading, and to tap phone calls without a pesky paper trail--in short, to keep us safe. If liberal terrorists had gotten their way and repealed the act, your apartment building would be a pile of rubble today.

Honestly, it's not as though we're giving up our privacy, we're simply giving up yours. You need to learn how to share your privacy with the rest of us. Don't ever forget, we are at WAR! Our fight against terrorism is nothing if it is not a fight for Freedom, and if we need to give up a few freedoms in order to protect Freedom, then that is a price we must be willing to pay.

Think about this for a second. What do Osama bin Laden, Ted Kazinski, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin and Charlie Manson have in common? The FBI was unable to read their emails. Chilling.

Your personal privacy is threatening our way of life. Big Brother has gotten a bad rap, thanks to British communists and snooty Mac users. The fact is, we love our older brothers, so why should we be afraid that they're watching our every move, ready to pounce at the slightest hint of a liberal terrorist agenda? The simple answer is that we shouldn't be. Our national privacy will stay strong guarded against our citizens' insidious personal privacies. Of course, you should always have the right to be alone with your thoughts, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be alone together.