The issue is control over your life. And over the past fifty years, almost every tightening of the screws on our lives has come from one side of the political spectrum.
I can think of one hell of a lot more ways a hostile government could hurt me with control over my income, health care, and livelihood than I can with a government's knowledge of my phone call destinations.
Every post you make convinces me that you really have no idea of the basic principles involved here, and that you are using "libertarian" as some kind of key word you think should impress me.
This is a synthetic issue, ignored last December, currently timed for Hayden's confirmation, and bleated about by people who are largely butt-ignorant about the NSA, Shamrock, Eschelon, Carnivore, and Smith vs. Maryland.
Judging by recent polls, most Americans don't think it's a hill worth dying on either.
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- The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans
- Here is something interesting - good or bad?
- re: The New York Times article from last December
- HIgh crimes and misdemeanors
- Brace for spin
- Tens of millions of Americans?