I do agree with the ACLU's mission and with the notion that privacy rights are being eroded. At the same time, I personally feel that this kind of polemic is be

I do agree with the ACLU's mission and with the notion that privacy rights are being eroded. At the same time, I personally feel that this kind of polemic is becoming so common that its usage risks numbing us to the biggest risks. (If everything is an emergency, then nothing is.) Criticism is possible without relying on cheap speculation and exaggeration.