What's Wrong With Conservatives?

Is there something wrong with conservatives?  

During the healthcare debate, they were afraid that health reform would somehow give government control of their healthcare.  A government takeover of healthcare, they called it.  This, despite nearly 50 years of experience of government faithfully paying for the healthcare needs of America's most vulnerable populations -- the elderly and the poor.  Fifty years, and not a single death panel was ever convened.  To conservatives, the big hand of government is, apparently, too dangerous when it provides health insurance to those who have none.  Too dangerous when it makes life saving or pain relieving healthcare available to those who need it.

Yet conservatives like Republican Scott Brown and independent Joe Lieberman seem to have no concern at all with the big hand of government taking away the citizenship of those who may be charged with terrorist acts, even though they have yet to be tried and found guilty.  

Conservatives in Arizona are willing to allow the big hand of government to demand to see their proof of citizenship anytime a police officer has a reason, no matter how valid, to demand it. 

My last name ends in a vowel, and I don't normally carry identification that proves my citizenship, since my drivers license isn't issued with a requirement that I prove citizenship.  My Social Security card came with this warnings:  "Keep your card in a safe place to prevent loss or theft.  DO NOT CARRY THIS CARD WITH YOU."  So I don't.  I don't have a passport, or a copy of my birth certificate.  I suppose if I was foolish enough to travel to Arizona, I'd better visit the county courthouse and obtain a copy.

I hear conservatives shout they "want to take their country back."  I don't know what America they were raised in, but in my America, people could walk the streets confident that the Constitution provided protection against unreasonable search or seizure.  

In the America I was raised in, I was taught the Constitution provided protections for me if I was charged with a crime.  I didn't need to worry that the State Department could step in and remove my citizenship because the Constitution treated me as innocent until proven guilty at a trial before a jury of my peers.

I am much more afraid of the way conservatives are shredding our Constitutional rights than I am frightened of any terrorist or illegal immigrant.

If conservatives want their country back, they should start by not giving away the essential freedoms that have made America special.  Don't they understand the Constitutional rights they so eagerly would take from others, are also taken from them?