The fallout continues over yesterday’s court decision by a U.S. District Court judge declaing the NSA surveillance program unconstitutional. Perhaps if this was 1968 or 1978, when the world was a lot larger, secrets could be more easily kept, and our enemies were of the traditional kind such as governments with organized armies wearing uniforms as such, the existence of and need for such a program would warrant both scrutiny and debate.

But it’s not.

It’s 2006, and if anyone questions the need for programs that are inherently focused on detecting patterns of information and communication involving identified parties both here and overseas, might I submit for your consideration the following:

* It appears Germany narrowly avoided terrorist attacks on their rail transit system last month. (Hat tip: Jonah at NRO’s Corner)

* Bad things that can happen when you try to date someone outside your religion.

* Bomb-making equipment and individual martyrdom tapes have been found in connection with the terror plot uncovered by the Brits last week.

* Iran appears to be taking and planning new steps to further destabilize the Middle East, alll while the August 22 date in which it says it will respond to the U.N.’s call for it to halt its nuclear program looms closer. (Hat tips: Free Republic)

* And we must never forget what happened on 9/11.

And, if that weren’t enough, we’re also having to increasingly fight this battle knowing that not everyone in our country is on our side and supportive of this struggle:

1) I’m concerned we now have a 24/7 media concerned only with being “the first” – not “the best” or “most accurate” – without any pretense or conscience for journalistic standards that might give them pause before revealing information that could be useful to those who wish to do us harm.

2) I’m concerned about an increasingly-aggressive, antagonistic, and sophisticated ACLU organization dominated by a far-left, anti-Bush, anti-Christian ideology that seeks to use the courts to issue rulings that emboldens our enemies and endangers the lives of innocent people.

3) I’m concerned about the increasing willingness of professionals within our nation’s intelligence infrastructure to use leaks of classified information to harm the Administration and its national security goals. Powerline calls it “engaging in a virtual war with the Bush administration”, I call it borderline treason.

I still think a lot of this still has to do with anti-Bush hatred resulting from Florida in 2000. I sure hope so. One can only hope that the impending end of the Bush years brings with it a greater willingness on everyone’s part to come together and work together as a nation to protect our country and its interests from those who wish to destroy it.