If you don't believe that Liberty and Freedom have been totally $%X%Z%33-ED by the Patriot Act, read the story at this link.

Lavabit, an encrypted email service used by Ed Snowden, shut down without notice.  The CEO, under the threat of imprisonment, chose closing rather than turning over data to NSA.  He is not allowed to discuss the case, the laws being applied to him, and is not allowed to provide his lawyer with all the information relating to his case.  Lavabit is not a surreptitious enterprise,  It provides a legitimate service to those who do not want their personal info shopped around to 3rd parties by such providers as GMail, Yahoo, etc. They sell your data and profiles, including websites that you frequent, to numerous vendors.  That's a price you pay for free email and storage.  Some choose to run their own email server or pay for privacy to a company like LavaBit.
We are under threat by the Police State.
Lavabit closes its doors rather than punk out to Fascists!