Americans Need To Wake Up

Listen, I understand that the government has to protect us against terrorists. I hear people making comments like, if we had this on Sept 10, we would have caught or stopped the tragedy of 9/11. But doesn't it require someone to decipher this information. We all have heard about the FBI agent who was renting to two of the hijackers. We had Zacharias Moussaoui in custody. The memo titled "Bin Ladden determined to attack in the U.S."

Hindsight is 20/20, but that is the logic acceptable for everyday people, not the intelligence agencies. And what stuns me is how the American people are still willing to give up rights because somehow knowing who Joe Smith in Kansas City is calling is ok. The person who says,"If you ain't got nothing to hide, don't worry." misses the point of our bill of rights. Apparently too many people think like this though.

(The Other WaPo)The new survey found that 63 percent of Americans said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism, including 44 percent who strongly endorsed the effort. Another 35 percent said the program was unacceptable, which included 24 percent who strongly objected to it.

A slightly larger majority--66 percent--said they would not be bothered if NSA collected records of personal calls they had made, the poll found.

Underlying those views is the belief that the need to investigate terrorism outweighs privacy concerns. According to the poll, 65 percent of those interviewed said it was more important to investigate potential terrorist threats "even if it intrudes on privacy."

Does anyone else see the stupidity of the people who are in favor of this? So someone who has nothing to do with terrorism is saying it is ok for the NSA to investigate them, or break your 4th Amendment rights, for connections to terrorism. At no point do they ask themselves, why would the NSA want MY phone records, and if they have those, what else do they have? They probably don't know the 4th Amendment. They'll give you the 2nd Amendment, or the part of the 2nd Amendment they like, at a drop of a dime. But the 4th, what's that.

4TH Amendment - The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Where does it say, unless the government wants to protect us from terrorists. It doesn't!