"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" - Not Anymore

Great op-ed on the warrentless spying by Bush by Miami Herald's Leonard Pitts:

FEAR AND LOATHING OF FREEDOM IN THE WHITE HOUSE

....Franklin Roosevelt was right. Fear itself is still the first enemy. When people are scared, they don't think, they don't reason and they want nothing so desperately as to just stop being scared. So often, they'll go along with anything that holds out that promise. Even if it means allowing the rights our forebears won from Britain's King George III to be denuded by America's King George I.....