Our freedoms on the altar of political correctness

What a disappointment it is to hear Chris Christie defending government surveillance. Christie has it wrong, in my opinion.

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He uses 9/11 as justification for watching everyone, to "keep us safe". The argument is being framed as personal freedom versus public good. That is dead wrong. In nearly every (if not all) case of successful and thwarted attacks, there were many warning signs. Warnings that were lost in the bureaucratic cluster of agencies which overlap but often don't communicate. So, to solve the problem, our freedoms are the sacrifice on the altar of political correctness. Here's the issue for many of us, we don't trust the government. It has overstepped its bounds or failed us too many times to be trusted. Where is the proof that watching every citizen is more effective than watching the people whom we know are perpetrating the acts of terrorism? The profile does not include senior citizens, children, yoga instructors, Christians, teachers or sheriffs. Perhaps we could consider a process of elimination if the more straightforward tact of watching radicalized Muslims is distasteful to powers that be. Sandy Dameron Rotonda West, FL

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