I totally agree with google's answer to the government's request. Ever since the Patriot Act, the government has aquired this belief that the people of America are ready to give up our basic rights. There is even a police chief in Houston that suggested building permits require cameras in apartment buildings, malls, and even *in privately owned homes whose owner calls the police very often. Another story I've recently heard of is that of a person sitting in a library being harassed by a librarian and two police officers for viewing pornographic material. I think that because this person was not calling attention to himself or flaunting his actions that his reading material is not only his own business, but also that his privacy was being seriously invaded and the police were using intimidation tactics to impress their own moral views upon this citizen. They made the matter into a form of public humiliation by bringing out into the open what the person may not have wanted his peers to have known about him or herself. And now, police want an internet search engine, with millions of users, to simply hand over any personal information about these people the government seeks. Does this only sound crazy and fanatical and ominous to myself? I am very worried about the future of America. The question the police chief of Houston put to us was, "If you're not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?" To this I reply, we shouldn't have to worry about worrying about it. By this I mean, taking away people's privacy leads to paranoia and people checking their every move. The average citizen doesn't have the detailed knowledge of the laws to know for certain if they're breaking an uncommon one or not. The government could arrest someone wrongfully, easily, because the person won't know if the accusations are or are not against the law. I'm not saying the U.S. would do this, I have a firm belief they would not, presently. But the way things are going privacy on the whole is being attacked on all sides. This bombardment, to me, implies that the government is trying to throw so many balls at us that we're bound to drop a few. I want the officials of America to know that it's people do witness these actions, and if they are unintentional it would do very well for the people's trust in our government if such actions were checked.