Having often invoked Thomas Jefferson’s warning that We the People are the ultimate guardian of our liberties, I’ve been criticizing the citizenry and Congress for their weak resistance to the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations’ muzzling of our constitutional freedoms. But now I see signs of hope from the growing resistance to Obama’s drones.

Behold this headline from a recent Associated Press story: “Talk of drones patrolling U.S. skies spawns anxiety” (Joan Lowy, June 19).

For example, “Jeff Landry, a freshman Republican congressman from Louisiana’s coastal bayou country, said constituents have stopped him while shopping at Walmart to talk about it.”