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In reply to the discussion: Don't entertain this garbage. [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)there is some probable cause to believe I am doing something illegal. Ordering pizza isn't probable cause enough to justify 'collecting data' according to the 4th Amendment. True, the FFs may not have known anything about ordering pizza, or telephones, but the law applies regardless, it is pretty clear.
Our elected officials take an oath of office, it is short and succinct. It doesn't say they swear to protect us from people ordering pizza, or even from radical extremists. It says they will 'defend and protect the CONSTITUTION of the US. That is all, they will protect it 'from enemies both foreign and domestic'. Not that they will protect US, but they will protect the CONSTITUTION.
Why do you think those oaths reflect the belief that protecting the Constitution is even more important than protecting anything else? I get it, I just wonder if everyone gets it, especially those who took that oath?