I'm sorry but I don't give a rat's furry ass if they tap my phones or whatthehelleverthefuck.

[kenny blankenship]

19. If that's really your priority, then you should be worried about the Assad govt. collapsing

and the rebel factions getting their hands on (more) of Syria's chemical and bioweaponry. That should be your number one fear right now. I don't know how old you are, but the Syrians, under Hafez and Bashir Assad, have had chemical weapons since the 70s. They aren't and haven't been any threat to the United States nor to its legitimate interests, rationally conceived. Most of your life, no doubt like mine, there was never any reason for you to even think about the existence of those weapons, as they are no threat to you.
If the Assad government falls however, that could become a whole different story.

Patrick Henry and Ben Franklin only had to worry about being hanged and drawn and quartered by the British. You may think they were total wusses, and never had to face a world of threats. But you're dead fucking wrong about that. The people of their generation not only had to worry about the British government capturing and executing them during their Revolution, but they also had every reason to fear BETRAYAL by some of their own number, either acting to seize dictatorship of the new republic or acting in league with a foreign power. Britain, which would attempt to retake her colonies in the War of 1812, was a permanent hostile presence to the north. Spain to the South, and France to the West. The generation of Henry and Franklin chose to place the individual freedoms of the 4th Amendment in the fundamental law of the land and to remove them from the clutches of spymasters and Generalissimos ANYWAY and despite the nearness of all those threats. I'm very sorry to hear you don't like freedom very much. Try not to fuck it up for those of who still value it, OK?