Yes, yes and yes: NO to NSA Unwarranted Wiretapping -- "unwarranted digital frisk downs of innocent citizens -- virtual search and seizure without a warrant"

NSA ruling wins cheers on Hill - Burgess Everett - POLITICO.com

Yes, yes, and yes: As per my Facebook post De. 9th, 2013: "Most excellent that Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo!, etc. -- the bigs -- are finally trying to help citizens. Clear to me that the recent NSA spying is like unwarranted digital frisk downs of innocent citizens -- virtual search and seizure without a warrant. Which is BS. Need to reverse that, "...the balance in many countries has tipped too far in favor of the state and away from the rights of the individual." And today, "Nice that the Federal judge comes to the same conclusion, "...the NSA's bulk data collection program used to spy on Americans' phone calls is a violation of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures." Sucking that we have to police our government to give us our Constitutional rights. And under Obama, who was a Constitutional law instructor, and should be (often appears/often is/I and we want him to be) a better guy. He's no W, but sheesh. Cut that out Obama."

From the linked article, "“It is an astounding day when a federal judge says a government surveillance practice would leave James Madison aghast,” Wyden told reporters. “The idea of collecting all these phone records is not inoffensive data collection as some of the proponents have said. It is digital surveillance.”

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