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7. The courts are corrupted then. Yes, it's crazy.
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 09:21 PM
Oct 2013

The Fourth Amendment is clear in its intent, and this mass collection and storage of data are a gross violation of both its spirit and letter.

I just hate that nobody seems to be fighting on this basis. Nobody is fighting for our Constitution.

Trying to fix this through legislation is very dangerous, because I think what we will end up with is some sort of compromise. We should not be compromising on Constitutional protections, period.

It will be a ploy of corporate politicians less honest than Elizabeth Warren to try to dupe and pacify the public (pretending to fix everything and "rein in" the NSA) by using legislation to rule out only certain limited types of spying, thereby establishing through precedent that the vast mass of spying not prohibited by their laws is okay. It's not. It's unconstitutional.

I am very worried about where this is heading.

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