Senators To Obama: Hey You Can End Bulk Phone Data Collection Today; Obama: Ha, Ha, Ha, Nope!

[JDPriestly]

61. A president who claims to have taught constitutional law should know that Section 215 as the

NSA and the Obama administration are applying it is unconstitutional.

Here is a great article from the EFF on the history of the Fourth Amendment:

https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/att/generalwarrantsmemo.pdf

Considering that our Revolution was fought in great part against the writs (or warrants) of assistance and that the orders that the NSA has been obtaining from the FISA courts are just as vague and general as those British writs or warrants of assistance, considering that John Adams himself objected to the use of those vague, general warrants, it is disgusting that a person would claim to be a professor of Constitutional Law and defend the NSA's general warrants.

We live in an electronic age. Our homes extend electronically beyond the walls of our houses.

The NSA surveillance is wrong. The current right-wing court may approve it, but that does not make it right, and in my view, it does not make it constitutional. Not at all.

Tell me. What is left of the Fourth Amendment?

The Supreme Court has torn so many loopholes in it never bothering to interpret it so as to be relevant to the lives we live today that there is almost nothing left.

We need to make government violation of the Fourth Amendment a crime punished by a prison sentence. As it is today, violating the Fourth Amendment is viewed a joke by our law enforcement. Very sad.