Our Lord Bush

May 11, 2006 18:37

"The privacy of ordinary Americans is fiercely protected," he said, adding: "We are not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans."

Where, in the constitution does it say that "ordinary Americans" have these rights, but not the "undordinary?" I'm sick and tired of a government founded by radicals escaping the norm to protect inherent, god-given freedom, trying to tell me what is ordinary, and decide that the unordinary are not people protected by the government or somehow lose citizenship because they have different ideas.

Furthermore, when did free speech become an issue over whether or not the government 'trolls through our personal lives'?

The issue here isn't that i want to hide my shopping list. Who the hell honestly cares about that shit?
The issue here is that I want to hide my decision to oppose this government violently should it get out of hand. No, i'm not crazy, the government isn't that out of hand, but it is these decisions that set the precedent that we allow a government to monitor our activity to prevent us from disagreeing.

The freedom of speech and expression, and the freedom to speak without fear of being monitored exist to protect us from the government, not as a protection granted to us by the government.
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