Do Americans really care about "Big Brother?"

Do Americans even care about their Constitutional Rights???

 TIME MAGAZINE

• A quick tally of the record of civil liberties erosion in the United States since 9/11 suggests that the majority of Americans are ready to trade diminished privacy, and protection from search and seizure, in exchange for the promise of increased protection of their physical security. Polling consistently supports that conclusion, and Congress has largely behaved accordingly, granting increased leeway to law enforcement and the intelligence community to spy and collect data on Americans. Even when the White House, the FBI or the intelligence agencies have acted outside of laws protecting those rights — such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the public has by and large shrugged and, through their elected representatives, suggested changing the laws to accommodate activities that may be in breach of them.

 (Bold & Underscore mine.)

So are you willing to give up your rights to Free Speech, Freedom of the Press, Freedom to Assemble, Right to Due Process and all your other civil liberties for a promise?  It doesn't affect you now, but it could.  All you have to do is take a picture in the wrong place, have someone accuse you of "suspicious activity" and you could be arrested, interrogated, held without knowing the charges against you, held without the right to an attorney, you could even be shipped out of this country with absolutely NO right of redress.

Does American Idol seem that important now?