You have taken issue with Franklin's warning against trading liberty for security. It seems you are willing to give up at least some liberties.
That does not mean you approve of tyranny or oppose the Constitution. In your response to zeugma, you wrote,
Having said that, it's still very important that we the people, also protect and defend our Constitutional rights. It's a serious balancing act. Surrendering our individual rights isn't acceptable. But the giving of some additional time and a little privacy in order to help fight terrorism is a very patriotic thing to do. IMHO, of course!
The problem is that the "serious balancing act" you propose is difficult -- perhaps impossible -- to pull off. Once the federal government is allowed to exceed the bounds set for it by the Constitution, it resists being pushed back. Governments are never satisfied with the citizen's sacrifice of a little time and a little privacy (which are themselves important rights); their tendency is always to demand more.