We don't look good in black hats.

I remember when we were the good guys. I grew up in the 1950s just after we saved the world from the AXIS. We were proud to be Americans because we did the right thing in the right way.

It was the height of the Cold War. America stood for the rights of man, we fought against the abuses of ‘godless communism’. In Russia we knew people were being spied upon by Big Brother, they were being taken from their homes in the dead of night and being tortured in concentration camps for their religion and charged with being enemies of the state, .

We were horrified by this.

We would never do such a thing.

But now, it seems we do.

Agents rounded up hundreds, if not thousands of American citizens, because they were practiced Islam. No one was told why or where they went.

Our President is trying to authorize torture of ‘enemy combatants’.

American citizens are having their phone conversations spied upon.

I ache to wear the white hat again.