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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)would presume, you think they need to spy on several million people to try to listen to what they are saying?
If someone commits murder should the police be allowed to search a few million homes in an effort to try to find the murderer? And how on earth would doing that help them to find a murderer?
The 4th Amendment says 'no'. And oddly enough murderers are caught all the time without the police breaking down the doors of millions of people.
And if our intel community is so incompetent that they have to listen in to millions of phone calls, hoping they will be lucky and find the needle in the haystack and that is the only way they can think of doing it, they should all be fired. We are not safe.
Of course all totalitarian governments use 'national security' as an excuse for keeping their populations under surveillance. That is why the FFs wrote the 4th Amendment. To protect us from that kind of government.
Nixon violated the 4th Amendment, although he didn't spy on the entire country. After that we got the FISA bill, not perfect by any means, but at least it required the government to get a warrant BEFORE spying on anyone. Congress changed that law to protect Bush when HE violated the law, retroactively. Why do you think any Democrat voted for such a blatant tactic to save Bush from possible impeachment for this crime?