text: what's more important to you, privacy or national security? people are so concerned that their privacy is being violated that they don't consider the fact that sometimes that is what is needed to happen to protect the entire american public. i guess as long as your secrets are private it doesn't matter how many innocent people die. thoughts? i truly don't see why we should have to choose.  many of the homeland security issues are a direct outflow of isolationist and/or imperialistic foreign policies which have caused nations to become envious and to fear and loathe us.  that is from where insecurity and terrorism emerges.  quite frankly, if our federal government would make better choices, and not perpetually make america-centric policies to the detriment of the less-developed peoples of the world, we could go back to feeling far more secure without the constant infringements of our constitutionally-derived and constitutionally-protected privacy by the same government.