[Triggerhippie]

If you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything to fear.

[Triggerhippie]

That post was not directed at anyone here. Just posting so that loonies like sarasmom, from her Prozac haze, don't accuse me of being bad.

[mad_as_he$$]

Sorry but that is stupid logic in this day and time. The Goverment is for the most part incompetent and useless bureacrats that are only worried about their own power and retirement. Name me one thing that Federal Government has done for YOU that is positve and helpful (outside of the direct Constitutuibal duties) in the last five years.

Have you tangled with the IRS because soembody that works for you tipped them off? It will cost you thousands even if you are found inocent. What about guys like Richard Jewel and the anthrax guy - tried in the press and had their lives ruined by the Government - they had nothing to hide and were guilty of nothing.

If you live in almost any blue state give me 15 minutes in your house and I will find at least one felony violation (if you live in Kalifornia I can find 5). Does your computer have kiddy porn on it? Are you sure? Have youe searched every file? Did Junior click the wrong button just once and download the recipe for sarin gas? If he did and they find it you could be declared an enemy combatant and could held at Gitmo forever - no lawyer nothing. Will it happen? Chances are not, but similiar things happen to people who thought they had nothing to hide every day.

[TheFrog]

Exactly, they can monitor any conversation of mine they want, just as soon as they get a judge to issue a warrant.

I obey the law, the government must do the same, or is the government above the constitution now?

If the government does not have to obey the laws that they are in charge of enforcing, then why should I?