[B4Ranch]

A WARNING that we didn't listen to.

Constitutional expert: FISA bill 'is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment'"

"People need to be very, very much aware of this bill," he charged. "What you're seeing in this bill is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. It is something that allows the President and the government to go into law-abiding homes, on their word alone--their suspicion alone--and to engage in warrantless surveillance.

"That's what the framers who drafted the Fourth Amendment wanted to prevent."

Have we succumbed to willful ignorance — "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."

[TigersEye]

"People need to be very, very much aware of this bill," he charged. "What you're seeing in this bill is an evisceration of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution. It is something that allows the President and the government to go into law-abiding homes, on their word alone--their suspicion alone--and to engage in warrantless surveillance.

They are already doing it bill or no bill by archiving every electronic communication of any kind and using software to pull profiled patterns out of it.

NSA CS Man: My Tracking Algorithm Was 'Twisted' By the Government [gov't spying on you]