"People Who Urge Calm Over NSA Spying Make Me Nervous"

[sabrina 1]

1. The 4th Amendment doesn't say it's okay to track people's behavior

their comings and goings, their reading material, what time they go to buy a newspaper or to the bookstore to buy a book, UNLESS they use that information to harass them in some way.

The very stalking of people's actions, on such a massive scale, whether on the phone, or on the internet, IS the harassment the 4th Amendment made illegal. Does Hertzog think that the 4th Amendent only covers the few and it will always only be a few, at first, who are harassed by the Government's stalking??

They did not, they forbade all stalking of citizens by the Government because that in itself is an intrusion on their privacy from Government intrusion, without a warrant issued upon presentation in court before a judge of evidence of wrong-doing.

How did we get to the point where morons like this are taken seriously in a democracy?

Good article by someone who actually understands the principle behind protecting the people from the potential of an oppressive government.