I know, I suck. But a serious question:

[JDPriestly]

147. There is a chance that the Supreme Court will rule that the facts in any case involving the metadata

that is not related to a specific criminal investigation is not permitted by the Fourth Amendment. The facts are just not comparable. In addition, the technology has changed. The government is anonymously scooping up metadata.
That is very different from requesting from a phone company data on calls involving specific numbers at specific dates or within a specific time period and of a specific suspect in the context of the investigation of a crime.

Further, the computer capability of the government to analyze the metadata makes its collection as a vast database an entirely different matter than the review of phone bills of suspects in a specific criminal investigation.

I may be hoping unrealistically that the Supreme Court will understand the difference between the facts of the cases, but I think that if we are to preserve our democracy, it is essential that the collection of metadata by the government and perhaps by private companies be made illegal. We are not just numbers. We are not just data. We are human. We are voters. We are living in a supposed democracy in which our ideas and our thoughts and votes count. The collection of metadata by our government or even by some of the private companies renders all the idealistic values that have made our nation strong as a nation of free individuals just a joke. A dirty joke.