I mean, I know it's using a bunch of money and it's very unnecessary, but everyone's peoblem seems to be the privacy issue. I don't see why that matters. It's not like the FBI cares who you're going out with on Saturday night, or the fact that you just bought a new CD. Unless you have to write a report about towers, bombs, or terrorism and you're telling your friends about it, you've got nothing to worry about.
2006-11-02 03:33:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Wire tapping the telephones of American citizens without a court order is illegal.
They impeached Clinton for a minor dalliance in which he didn't even get to third base. But taking the Constitution and pushing it through the shredder, why that is just fine and dandy.
He really does believe that it is only a piece of paper, and he is the Prince of the Realm who may do as he pleases, isn't he?
The answer to Ben Franklin's comment about what sort of government the constitution enshrined--"A republic, if you can keep it"-- has been answered. We've lost it, folks. We've got George III in the White House. And, it is now often forgotten, that George was looney as the day is long, too.
2006-11-02 03:38:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
My only thing is the privacy issue-but not because I have something to hide. It's because when drug dealers or other generally not good poeple meet to do their not good deeds they usually have a cover up phrase just in case- like "meet me at macy's at 3" If someone were listening to my calls and heard something they may let their imaginations interpret the private conversations differently. I may be 100% innocent of anything but i chose to have an affair or something and meet someone at a seedy motel on the wrong side of town I don't need a bunch of feds rushing in on my indescretions. Though I would be wrong it is not a government or legal issue what or who might be done in my life. They should still need to provide probable cause to earn a warrant for it. If I had committed a crime I would be unopposed and understanding- but I never have and therefore deserve my freedom.
2006-11-02 13:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by Slutlana 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there ever were fundamental human rights, the right to privacy is one of them. I have plenty to hide. (No, that doesn't mean that I'm breaking the law or that I'm a creep.) My conversations are mine and they belong to me.
It shows the extent of the decay of the respect that our government has for the people. In that, it also shows that the government (not only) is not BY the people, but also that it is not even OF the people.
You think this precedent won't be abused? It will never be used to destroy a business or a home?
If a traffic officer decided to follow you around all day, just waiting for a mistake, would that make you nervous?
Assumed innocence.
2006-11-02 11:49:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The point is when you allow warrant less wire taping on the American people you are giving the government, leader, decider, father figure, president, king, etc. absolute power (no oversight from "We the People") and we are no longer a democracy. You don`t even need to get the warrant first with the law that has been around for years, you can file it a day or two later and Bush could`t even do that.
2006-11-02 11:46:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yea , I feel the same way but some people are very privacy paranoid...kinda makes ya wonder about them..doesn't it? I think most of the people really objecting though are the ones that are afraid of wire tapping being the starting point, that the government will then feel free to invade other areas of our lives more easily... to that i say.. learn some facts people.. they already do! So in the end..yes, being worried over wire tapping is a completely pointless waste of energy.
2006-11-02 11:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by lucky 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not the wire tapping that most people don't like, its the ability for them to wire tap without a warrant. The warrant kept them from spying on people unless there was a reason too. Now they can spy on people without having a reason. There is no good that can come of that. If their intention was to only spy on bad people, then they wouldn't need to have warrant-less wire tapping. The only thing warrantless wire tapping is useful for, it spying on people who haven't done anything wrong and aren't associated with anythin bad. It's not the danger of them listening to us, its the fact that our rights are slowly going away.
2006-11-02 11:39:42 · answer #6 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well my phone has been tapped several times that I know of and all in all it has not bothered me.
I knew that it was taped and even picked up the phone at times just to let thoes that were taping it hear me talk so they would not get to bored with the regular chit chat that I get from the friends that call me.
I do tell everyone that the phone is taped when they call
2006-11-02 11:38:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
its about privacy. The Constitution guarantees your right to privacy, and that the government cannot search you, or your personal communications, without a warrant.
if you dont mind having people go through your personal things, you wont mind if I look through your wallet, right? how about your computer files? or your car or house? You dont have anything to hide, so whats the big deal?
2006-11-02 11:40:53 · answer #8 · answered by Kutekymmee 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Right, I dont care about who hears me on the phone deciding which movie to go see or what I just bought at the mall.
2006-11-02 11:37:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
" If you have nothing to hide, you will have nothing to fear from the Gestapo." Hermann Glockenstein 1936
2006-11-02 12:04:57 · answer #10 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋