Absolutely. I am also thankful that the powerful see my personal rights as subservient to their responsibility to control the world around me. I can no longer imagine making a call without the comforting quiet of the NSA listening in…or walking through an airport gate without having my nuts fondled. Free people just don’t understand how comforting it is to cede one’s liberty to the powerful for the promise of protection from terrorism…or viruses…or aliens…or children’s’ balloons. That stuff scares me, because I’m told that it should!