It was a good run. The Bill of Rights was designed to protect the
people from their government. If the First Amendment's right to speak
out publicly was the people's wall of security, then the Fourth
Amendment's right to privacy was its buttress. It was once thought that
the government should neither be able to stop citizens from speaking nor
peer into their lives. Folks, as our president now refers to us, should
not have to fear the knock on the door in either their homes or the
homeland writ large.
In Post-Constitutional America (2001-Present), the government has taken a bloody box cutter to the original copy of the Constitution and thrown the Fourth Amendment in the garbage. The NSA revelations of Edward Snowden are, in that sense, not just a shock to the conscience but to the concept of privacy itself: Our government spies on us. All of us. Without suspicion. Without warrants. Without probable cause. Without restraint.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-van-buren/eo-12333-endrunning-the-f_b_5859048.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
In Post-Constitutional America (2001-Present), the government has taken a bloody box cutter to the original copy of the Constitution and thrown the Fourth Amendment in the garbage. The NSA revelations of Edward Snowden are, in that sense, not just a shock to the conscience but to the concept of privacy itself: Our government spies on us. All of us. Without suspicion. Without warrants. Without probable cause. Without restraint.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-van-buren/eo-12333-endrunning-the-f_b_5859048.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
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