In the Republic imagined by Our Founders, the Constitution gave a solid enduring foundation to the rule of law.
In other words the law was not a matter of what was momentarily fashionable.
In any police state, law is quite relative and a matter to what is fashionable.
You correct, I have nothing to hide as I am not presently doing anything illegal other than never wearing my seat belt and speeding.
Problem is the law is being mass manufactured by a bunch of stooges in the legislative branch who have admitted they rarely read the laws that they do pass, and it is revealed time and again they rarely bother to abide by many of the laws that they do pass.
There are so many stupid laws being passed today that much of what I did five years ago will be illegal in another five years.
Still this is not really a problem for me as I am an old man who will never be in the cross hairs of Barry or whoever may be serving as janitor and front man for the police state.
But young people are having information collected today that may not be of present illegal behavior but well may be in another ten years.
What if that young person may decide to run for office later on.
Those who run for public office must account for whatever they have done that was recorded on the public record. But should they have to account for what was recorded a decade ago on the Big Brother's private record?
Just because no abuses of average citizens private information have not occurred, does not mean it won't.
You cannot allow the Fourth Amendment to shredded without understanding the consequences may not be immediate but those consequences over time will be devastating.
We have the right as Americans to be secure and protected against illegal search and seizure.
I want to know what their probable cause was to gain access to MY phone records, CC transactions, FB info?
Give the government an inch and they take a freakin mile...every single time. That includes local, county, state and federal.
It's time to scale back the size and scope of government.
Damn, this pisses me off. I'll get off my soap box now. Anyone gotta cigarette? Oh wait, can't have one, Uncle Sugar say’z it's bad for me.
Geezzzzz
It’s pretty damned obvious what the problem is. This administration believes in punishing its’ enemies (out of Valerie Jarrett’s own mouth)....eliminating its’ opposition...and targeting anyone on the right or anyone that doesn’t slurp the Obama kool-aid lovingly. In plain English....this administration will go after anyone on the right that it deems a threat to Obama’s leftist agenda.
Anyone that has to ask the question, therefore, must be a total moron or an Obama supporter (same thing, actually).
Just sayin....
Because it’s contrary to the Fourth Amendment. Beyond that, there’s no need for any further explanation, nor is any required.
Period.
You aren't the one deciding whether or not you have something to hide.
That is not the case!
Everything we have posted here will forever be available, not only to our current generation, but for generations to come.
Yes, over a century from now, descendants of mine will be able to pull up all my posts here on the Free Republic and determine that a) I had a guilty pleasure for Partridge Family music and b) I once served a grilled hamburger to one of my relatives that had mosquitoes on it.
And that's just scratching the surface!
Yes, the technology already exists to resolve our screen names here to our real names in actual life. In the future, it will be incredibly easy to data-mine every single thing we ever posted to the internet.
Regarding Luke 8:17: This is not a prophecy that should make us happy. But it is a prophecy. Just as we’re told that Christians will be persecuted. Just a few clues so we don’t start wondering if the Lord is in charge. Forewarned is forearmed. That doesn’t mean we approve.
Is this true, Sauron?