Why Is The Far Left So Afraid Of Wire-Tapping ?? .. . Are They Criminals ? or Could It Be The Dream Police ?

Question

The dream police they live inside of my head
The dream police they come to me in my bed
The dream police they're comin to a-rrest me Oooooooh nooooo

You know that talk is cheap , and those rumors ain't nice
And when I fall a-sleep I don't think I'll survive the night .. . . the ni-i-i-ight
Cause they're waitin for me , they're lookin for me
Ev-ery sin-gle ni-i-ight
They're drivin me in-sane
Those men in-side my brain

The dream police they live inside of my head
The dream police they come to me in my bed
The dream police they're comin to a-rrest me . . . Ooooooh nooooooo

Well I can't tell lies
Cause they're listenin to meeeee
And when I fall a-sleep
Bet they're spy-in on me. .. . to-night. . . TO-NIGHT

Cause they're waitin for me , they're lookin for me
Ev-ery sin-gle night
They're drivin me insane
Those men in-side my brain

Truly though , I wonder why 'law-abiding' citizens would be afraid of wire-taps designed to stop Criminal Terrorists ??
Can you help me understand ?

Listen folks , I do understand all you thoughtful answers . I really do . But I see a 'need' for this and not because of anything you folks did , but because of what Radical Islamist Terrorists are doing . Getting a warrant only announces what we're looking for . And we all know there are crazy judges who would deny some of them that most of us would approve . Therein lies the problem , and until anyone comes up with a better idea , I'm for it .

Answer 1

They seem to forget that it was international phone calls to know terrorists that were being monitored.

Well so they set that program back and when a nuke is denotated in major city or we are crawling around like in Jericho.

They will say with pride well at least they didn't listen to the terrorist phone calls.

Answer 2

If you look at all the activity of the radical Islamic groups that have set up shop in the US since the 70's you would be able to really see how vital such monitoring would have been in preventing things like the embassy bombings, both World Trade Centers bombings, and funding transfers to carry out countless murders. But the far left of the Democrats since the Church Committee action on the CIA and the Carter adminsitration's response by tearing up the capabilities of the CIA to conduct covert operations to the Clinton administration creation of the famous wall between intelligence agencies you will see why a 9-11 happened and why we will not continue to be lucky to avoid further attacks if we pull down any more efforts to find the "bad" guys before they hit us.

Answer 3

I am a conservative and I don't like wire tapping. They can listen to me all they want because I am not doing anything wrong and it would give me sadistic pleasure to know that I was boring some alphabet agency flunky to death with my dull life. However, the domestic surveillance program is more than open to abuse and the secret nature of oversight means that we really do not know if there is any true oversight at all.

Too many things in our society today are being blanketed under the national security veil. All to often hard line national security states become very unfriendly to the citizenry they are sworn to protect. There may not be any abuse in the system, but we should never just accept that the government has our best interests at heart and we should certainly never stop asking the hard questions.

Answer 4

There's an expression that I have heard, but I am not sure who said it, or what the EXACT quote is:

"I don't close my curtains because I am doing something wrong, I close my curtains because I want my privacy"

I have nothing against search warrants and wire taps with proboble cause and due process, but I don't want the gov't randomly listening in on my phone convo, reading all my mail, and generally snooping through our lives.

If they have reason to believe someone is up to criminal activity, I say, tell it to the judge, if he authorizes a wiretap, search warrant or whatever, then fine.

Power corrupts. Give the gov't unfettered access to our private lives, and they will abuse it.

Answer 5

There's just no oversight.. Saying they don't need a warrant is just an open ended check. I wouldn't even mind saying they can tap anyone anytime so long as they get a warrant within a short amount of time. But someone has to have oversight in the end.

Answer 6

This is seriously one of the weakest arguments that people make. Just because I have nothing to hide doesn't mean that it is okay for the government to wiretap Americans. I wonder how you will like it if Hillary Clinton gets the authority to wiretap anyone she wants? Will you feel the same about it then?

Answer 7

If you knew as much as you think you do, you would realize that no fascist government just piped up telling the citizens that they had no rights.
They slowly enacted laws, quietly and behind closed doors to improve methods of keeping track of what the citizens are doing, until they talked them into giving up their weapons, to make them secure against the percieved threat of violence.
They never really announce, that you have no rights, they let the people get use to less and less of them, until one day they realize they have none, and they can't do anything about it.

"nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide" is the central dogma of all fascist regimes throughout history.

Answer 8

Much as I hate to disagree with a Cheap Trick fan, I need to explain that we're not afraid of wiretaps that can help catch those who wish to harm us, we simply point out that there's no reason to do them illegally. Get the warrants, which are very easy to get, and go ahead and listen.

Answer 9

READ THE CONSTITUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Amendment IV


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.

Answer 10

Sounds exactly like the argument a Cuban President would present for his actions.

If you aren't wiretapping people who aren't under suspicion, there shouldn't be a problem with getting a judge to sign the order.