Libertarians are not Conservatives...
..If the security of the country is not your first priority I cannot take any other argument you make seriously
"Frankly, the question(s) are whether you and I retain ours right to the protection of the 4th Amendment, why OUR private communication and transactions are tracked and recorded without due cause by a fascist Peeping-Tom State. Can you justify this?"
Your answer:
"Security"?? REALLY?? More like *crickets*
NOT acceptable nor justification to bludgeon our 4th Amendment without consent of We The People.
Btw, how did "security" help in the Boston Marathon Bombing?? What's that? It didn't help? And why not? Did you know all Mosques are EXEMPT from intel snooping?