Some Thanksgiving Misgivings

I have always thought the United States was Providential in conception and creation and until recently, that we had largely lived up to our mission of being the repository of human freedom for mankind. When I hear of broad programs to electronically eavesdrop on everyone who sends email, surfs the web, or makes a phone call, I have had to question that judgement. I fear America has become a surveillance state that uses drones that have killed many innocents (along with the guilty) in far flung corners of the world. My country would no longer be recognizable to those who founded the US to be both bastion for and beacon of liberty.