This whole thing is just getting started. American's are pissed off.
Bunch of teabaggerz BS is what I call it.......they are only pissed off because someone told them to be! The ACLU and EFF have been angry (for good reason) since about 2002...they are the only ones with a speck of consistency in these matter.
LIttle story. I used to own a retail store and once sold an expensive central heater to a guy who worked for the city of baltimore. I delivered it to a location way out in the sticks and brought it into his basement.
A couple weeks later a black car with 4 people pulls into my store parking lot and 4 guys in suits get out - they walk in the door and corner me, holding out their cards and saying "Craig - FBI, let's talk".....
They take me back into the office and it's Habeus Corpus. No way I was allowed to leave or avoid them. Turns out the guy was using the City of Baltimore purchase orders to outfit his house (among other things) and the FBI was following his every move for months...which included phonecalls to me and the delivery of the boiler.
They pulled out the phone records and asked me exactly what was said during the duration of each phone call. Then they pulled out a contact sheet of 100's of pictures of me delivering the boiler and asked me about them.
Keep in mind there was nothing but dirt piles around that construction site - it was hilltop in the middle of nowhere.
This was ALL pre-internet and pre-digital cameras (probably 1989).
Bottom line - Big Brother is watching if he wants to. But he needs a judge to sign off and other things first. That's the way the system works. Without it, the Boston bombers, etc, would never have been caught.
Reality does matter. Again, people would have to clearly tell me what I am losing...not conceptually (if and when this and that happened), but in reality. Unlike under the Bushman, they are not listening into every overseas phone call any longer.
I suppose I should complain that I need to register my car or my boat. What right does the gubment have to know how many HP my outboard has. Righteous Indignation.....
The bigger question....which already has an answer...is what these anarchists (teabaggerz, etc.) want. They want no taxes - they think they deserve 100% of the money they earn, even though it is enabled by the rest of us. They want the "right" for all these mass murders to occur and shame on you if you even question it.
Lots of "rights".