I know this will, forever, brand me the NSA Defending, lackey of authoritarianism; but ...

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173. Our security agencies should not be violating the 4th amendment, PERIOD!!

I don't care what people say about the need to throw away our civil liberties to "fight terrorism", which is always the excuse needed to push us closer each day to a complete police state.

The paranoia from 9/11 is too much for me to deal with! And I personally have experienced terrorism at my younger stages of life long before 9/11 happened and many others had to here in this country.

Back in the early 70's my 7th grade teacher's boyfriend was one of four airmen that were kidnapped by Turkish terrorists when I lived over there in a volatile time during the early 70's that had a lot of unrest from Red Brigade style terrorists all around that part of the world then that were going after Americans then. Had to live through Martial law, an Israeli diplomat assassination amongst other bombings, etc. that at times killed people and threatened many places I went then. I dealt with it and still believe in my rights to privacy! I wish more others here aren't so willing to throw that away to those that want to abuse us through that fear.

Here's a Rand report on that incident that reads like a movie script...

http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADB021900