Sounds a lot like the Leftists' "Big Brother" argument. This is a war and during war it is expected that the general populace make sacrifices. Whether it be in the form of "wire-tapping", rationing of food and oil products, submitting to more screening procedures, suspended Habeus corpus, or whatever, these are the necessities placed upon any free society during WAR. Originally the government was accused of not doing enough and now you're accusing them of doing too much. Pick a side and stick with it.
"In the year of our Lord, 1314,
Patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered,
charged the fields at Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought like Scotsmen.
And won their freedom"
Whether it is Arabs, or mothers-in-law, or our government,
if we forget it or put it aside we are defeated.