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Last night I had the misfortune of having a nightmare that made sense. I am a volunteer for the John Laesch campaign. John Laesch is working to unseat incumbent and current House Speaker Dennis Hastert in the Illinois 14th Congressional District. In the dream, I had the revelation that given the fact that animal right's protesters have been deemed terrorists by the Bush administration, that political dissidents or political opponents might also be.

I have taken part in two protests while I've been at Northern Illinois University. Revelations that the NSA has been performing warrantless wiretapping of American citizens make me worry that I might become a target of such unwarranted wiretapping. After all, I volunteer for the Laesch campaign and I have taken part in anti-Bush and anti-war protests. My concern is not a matter of having anything to hide, but a matter that I am a U.S. citizen. I am supposed to be protected by limits placed on the government by the U.S. Constitution-- a document which our elected and appointed officers are sworn to uphold. Being wiretapped should not even be a concern on my mind and the fact that it is a concern, and an apparently legitimate concern, is absolutely disgraceful.