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Bob,
The analogy is colorful, but more to the point would be the information about yourself that you've already willingly given up to your ISP, your banker, your credit card company, your pizza delivery guys, your grocery store, your shopping mall, your doctor, your pharmacist, and your local Starbucks. Those guys could write the book on you, right now, to such detail that the entire world will look like glass to you. You might need to come to grips with how transparent those walls already are.
Of course, it's always hard to justify exploratory surveillance, as it's specifically intended to save lives, but by its nature usually suffers many false positives before getting a hit. And the amount of security an individual will accept often is in direct correlation to the losses they've had, or are anticipating. But the alternative... more lives lost, maybe a friend or relative (as those living in Boston, Washington and New York can attest)... usually makes it worth accepting some extra scrutiny.
If that extra security was applied to the internet, hopefully you'd be able to see it in that light, understand the reasoning behind it, and accept it, as I expect most of humanity inevitably would... but if not, you'd always be free to never use the web again. And if security concerns you that much, you should probably follow that up with ditching your credit cards and store cards, going on a cash economy, exercising to keep the doctor away, and making your own pizzas...
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