Are we free?

Not according to Robert F. Hawes, Jr. He wrote a great article that appears today on lewrockwell.com. An excerpt: "You see, today the American government tells us that it can spy on us whenever and however it likes. It can read our e-mail and postal mail, track our financial records, pry into our medical histories, force libraries to turn over lists of the books we read, force internet service providers to turn over records of our surfing habits, and tap our phones and record our calls."