So which Amendment is it that permits subordination of the Constitution to "safety from terrorism?"

[agent46]

80. C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

Exactly which reality based community do you belong to? Do you people have potluck dinners and a softball team? Are you all deathly afraid of terra-ists and willing to hand over your sovereignty to a huge network of hundreds of quasi-governmental intelligence gathering corporations?

Please think for just a moment about how the real world works. You don't seem to have factored into your "reality base" that seventy percent of the intelligence gathering going on now is carried out by private corporations, contractors and foreign governmental agencies in cooperation with corporatist ideologues in our own government.

We've been told the government isn't listening in. Well that's a damn relief - and well then, who is? You seem to have no awareness at all of how backroom deals and private undocumented alliances without oversight lead to consolidation of power outside the purview of ordinary citizens.

Is your reality based community prepared to keep whistling past your reality based graveyard?