When I was young and America was much newer, my kids pestered me and my wife to allow them to do something because "all the other kids do it." We'd smile and explain, "but you are not the other kids."
Now, we hear James Clapper and some of the hawks in our government tell us that spying on leaders of other countries is fine because they all to it to us and opening everyone's mail is okay because everybody is doing it It isn't fine.
I say tp Mr. Clapper, "We're not everybody. We're a special country that holds certain truths to be self-evident, even if some people can't seem to see it. We have an unalienably right to life and liberty - from everybody, Mr. Clapper, and, as Patrick Henry said when America was even younger- give us liberty or death, not what everybody thinks is acceptable.