4th Amendment is a Civil Right and there is not natural right to privacy.
4th Amendment does not even address privacy, but being secure against unreasonable search.
This guy is looney tunes.
I don’t necessarily disagree with the point he is trying to make, but his argument is nonsense.
While the Judge should not have attempted to enshrine a “right to privacy” in the Bill of Rights, for better or worse a very liberal United States Supreme Court once recognized its existence.
What I think Napolitano is doing is making “sauce for the gander” an argument to use against the statists. The people who argue for “right to abortion” as being an extension of “right to privacy” are hypocrites if they don’t condemn the government for its limitless disregard of the 4th Amendment by prying into all aspects of your life.
I agree.
I keep trying to make the point that the Patriot Act (as it was intended) was not the evil boggart it is now.
It was intended to break down the Gorelick Wall that kept the intel agencies from sharing data and spreading the word.
But as with all heavy weapons like this, if wielded by honorable men, it’s a tool for good. It has been usurped by evil men, and now becomes a cudgel for evil.