It doesn’t take a legal expert to realize the US Constitution was written to limit the federal government, not We the People. The 4th is exceptionally clear, but if there’s doubt, that doubt has to go to the side of restricting government.
YES!!
I have told people everywhere this over and over (but I'm not blue in the face - yet!). They have been brainwashed by the publik skoool system for so long, they don't recognize it for what it is nor do they see the the dangerous ramifications. I guess as long as they get their EBT cards and Obama-phones, they don't care (bread and circuses!).
A lot of Americans simply don’t understand how powerful the technology has become. Like I wrote earlier, the Orwellian state can be easily imposed, and it doesn’t even have to be a human on the other side of your TV monitor. Computer algorithms never get tired, and they can constantly sift your personal data, meta or otherwise. It’s not like the NSA wants this metadata for no reason at all. There’s a lot of information to be gleaned from it.
Also, Orwell couldn’t have predicted all of the other things besides your TV monitor that can be tracked by a Orwellian state. Everything from refrigerators to thermostats are joining the networked world. As some idiots are fond of saying, if you have nothing to hide, you don’t need to worry about privacy.
What they don’t understand is just how much information is readily available and just how badly it can be used against people. Fact is, there’s no such thing as an innocent citizen in this day of laws for everything. The law can and will be used selectively against anyone who dares raise their head.
The tools and technologies are there—now! All it takes is someone to throw the switch, and we’re enslaved. I believe that’s what Snowden was getting at. Even if government isn’t using these weapons against Americans at this point, it’s building the capability to use them in the future. The only thing restraining them is their good will, because we KNOW they don’t care one whit for our constitutional liberties.