Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts
How does a nation built upon the concept of natural rights in turn deny non-Americans those same innate rights?It is a crime what the NSA is doing.  Against Americans, the world and the first principles of governance (i.e. classical liberalism).If Jefferson's notion of an Empire of Library was alive and vibrant today, the target would not be Canada but the United States government.Jefferson on defending the concept of popular sovereignty etc all over the world-"...we should then have only to include the North [Canada] in our confederacy...and we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation: & I am persuaded no constitution was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire & self government." - Jefferson to James Madison, 27 April 1809"where this progress will stop no-one can say. Barbarism has, in the meantime, been receding before the steady step of amelioration; and will in time, I trust, disappear from the earth" - Jefferson to William Ludlow, 6 September 1824