Right to Individual Privacy be valued above the National Security

National Security should be valued above individual privacy because: 1) You can't have any measure of individual privacy if you're dead, so government must take whatever measures are necessary to obtain the information necessary to protect us from terrorism both from at home and abroad. Too often we only find out after the genocide that the perpetrator left many clues behind to what they were they planning on their cell phone, facebook, twitter, emails, etc. Sifting such information to get the intel that prevents terrorist acts before they happen saves millions of lives, and is more important than keeping things private so you can face what should have been a preventable death. Government cannot just sit back and wait for terrorists to attack, they must stop them before they attack. Monitoring bank accounts to see where money goes and tracking phone conversations is necessary to do this. Just imagine what could happen if they didn't? The loss is much worse without surveillance and more privacy that with more surveillance and less privacy. You choose. I mean, isn't keeping us safe what counts? A majority of Americans think so from this poll: http://techcrunch.com... Even here in Barbados where I live, workers are the Port Authority protested when cameras were installed; they said it violated their privacy, but just a month or two later the police arrested a number of them for criminal activity. Just shows why being safe trumps the need to satisfy someone's ego with guarantees of being private. 2) Internet hackers and other criminals are not going to play by the rules. The people seeking to destroy this world will hack your computer to find ways to overpower you. Would it not be good to have a government who watches over our accounts to record, track, and stop, anyone who does this to us? Most of us won't even know we are hacked until the bank sends us the bill and shows our credit card was used up. I believe the authorities should increase their surveillance, not just for the sake of national security, but even for individual security, so that hackers won't get away with, and would be more afraid to attempt, this kind of crime. Someone needs to watch over those who can't watch over themselves. 3) Only bad guys are targeted once information is gathered on the public, so once you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. Simply obey the law and you'll be fine. The government has no interest in revealing to the public who is cheating on their spouse or any such personal detail, so why fear the gathering of phone records or increased immigration controls? Its hysterical to think that every single person who makes a phone call is literally being listened to by someone who will act on this information to that persons embarrassment or detriment. Its only if that person uses "key" terms connected to terrorism or classified government information, or is contacted someone red flagged by government that the conversation will even be looked at. So where is the problem? Most of us put our personal information out there for the world to see on facebook and twitter anyway. These are my opening arguments. I will give rebuttals in the next round.