The new definition of privacy

It's not the right to be secure in your persons and papers, free of government intrusion. Not any more. No, the Bush legacy is going to be a new definition of privacy, and it involves trusting the government and private industry to keep the information they collect on your every move private:

A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.

Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.

Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.

This is what they wanted all along -- not a free country, but one in which the government and corporations are a consortium that monitor your every move: everyone you call, every web site you visit, every dollar you spend. America the Free has already fallen, and these people accomplished it without a single shot being fired.