This is my answer to a question posed by the Star-Bulletin:

Do you believe that the NSA’s domestic spying program is an
effective deterrent to terrorism and what changes (if any) would you seek if
elected to Congress?

I do not support domestic spying on my friends and neighbors.  I doubt that the efforts to review library cards is effective in promoting a world in which people cooperate together rather than plan to blow each other up.  Giving up our right to privacy and handing over our Constitutional rights will not make us safer.  It only makes us more fearful and less free.

As a law student in Chicago many years ago I was highly offended to see policemen taking pictures of persons picketing a Federal Courthouse.  Those photos did nothing to promote peace in our communities and world.  Sneak photos of citizens protesting is not the image of America that I seek to promote and protect as a Congressman.

We need to stop allowing politicians to turn us into fearful beings too afraid to promote world peace and international understanding.   My proposals for a Second Front on the War on Terror will do a lot more to increase our safety than any fear promoting domestic spying program.