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In reply to the discussion: Al Gore: Edward Snowden's 'Important Service' [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Democracy is among other things a state of mind, he said. And if people are given the feeling that they have to be careful what they say lest it be misinterpreted because somebodys keeping a record, that chills the First Amendment rights that are at the very core of what American democracy is all about. This is really dangerous.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/al-gore-edward-snowden-important-service-107652.html?hp=r2
If someone tapped your phone as the NSA does, what would they learn.
This NPR reporter let someone tap her phone.
Here is what she learned:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/06/10/320347267/project-eavesdrop-an-experiment-at-monitoring-my-home-office?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app
Snowden saw the NSA's programs in operation. It amazes me that people don't understand wha enormous power the NSA has taken from us.
Each time the NSA obtains data on someone, it should get a warrant based on probable cause that provides the specificity required by the Fourth Amendment.
The Fourth Amendment has been hacked away at by the Supreme Court, but the fact it is it should protect our private property. My e-mail account, my medical records on-line, all the accounts for which I have personal passwords are my personal property. The government has no right to trespass on my personal property without a warrant. The Supreme Court decisions that are cited to justify this enormous attack on our human rights are just wrong.
The Founding Fathers fought the Revolutionary War in part to protect their homes and businesses and ships and other possessions from searches by the British that were conducted with general warrants of assistance called writs of assistance.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/06/10/320347267/project-eavesdrop-an-experiment-at-monitoring-my-home-office?sc=17&f=1001&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app
Vice President Gore knows better than the NSA apologists what the score is on the NSA. He got the briefings. He knows what they are up to. I'm with him. I trust him on this issue.