If this country now considers spying on its on citizens, intimidation and threats to citizens that are of the wrong political party, or are Christians, or are conservatives. that practice intimidation of the press, intimidation of Supreme Court judges to blackmail them into voting a certain way, and other communistic activities that are prohibited by our constitution, to be legal and okay, then what makes it still a great country? It has turned from the once great land of liberty to a statist tyranny. It may still be called America, but it is not the land of the free anymore, unless we stand up and put a stop to this now and return America to what she once was.
We CAN defend this country without giving up our freedoms. Sealing the borders, profiling of groups that actually cause danger, intelligence gathering of FOREIGN threats, but NOT indiscriminate spying on citizens with no warrant,not using the IRS and DOJ and data gathered from the NSA to threaten and intimidate citizens and judges.
For you America is no longer great nor seemingly needs to be Defended at all costs. Throughout our history civil liberties have been trampled in war time but the country survived and it will do so again.
The immediate threat is radical Islamists bent on killing us all. We cannot afford isolationism or pacifism to creep into in our national defense in the name of protecting the Constitution.