What About My Right to Privacy?

well since your citizenship is "so called" you have a "reasonable" right to privacy, for my family and fellow American Citizens i am willing to have my international calls screened. what is appalling is the "My" instead of "Our". We are in this together, some think the government is the enemy instead of the people who are using our freedoms to destroy all of us. quite selfish. If we get hit hard again you will see our freedoms even more eroded.

There is no such thing as "Right to Privacy."  See the Bill of Rights: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm

You will not find the word privacy anywhere in there.

 As for your 'just cause' argument, I can not think of a better cause than prevention of terrorist attacks on home soil and protection of my family.

People should be wary when government grants itself unlimited power to spy on its citizens.  One cannot help but wonder what people such as Richard Nixon, with his famous "enemies list" would have done with such power.  Or how about J. Edgar Hoover, who had a real penchant for surveilling individuals he didn't like? People need to ask themselves where the greater peril to their freedom comes from, outside or within the country.

Richard Nixon?  Hillary has a list that makes Nixons look like childs play. people who think the terrorists are less dangerous than our own government have no clue.

If the DEMS win in 08 they will all be silent. 

thanks kaitlin the terrorists are counting on us to fight with each other. terror tactics aim to curtail freedom and turn us against each other we must not let that happen.

When I was in junior high school, Civics was my favorite class. If I were sitting in a class today and a teacher was explaining the three branches of the U.S. Government and the concept of checks and balances, it would be like a joke. How could you take it seriously when you see destruction of  the pillars of our form of government? I remember learning that nobody was above the law. FISA was the law and the Bush administration openly violated it (even boasting that they had done so). Yet, there are no consequences.

Bruce Schneier, security guru, says that such surveillance is both un-American and ineffective:

"There is something un-American about a government program that uses secret criteria to collect dossiers on innocent people and shares that information with various agencies, all without any oversight. It's the sort of thing you'd have expected from the former Soviet Union or East Germany, or modern-day China.
Finding terrorism plots is not a problem that lends itself to data mining. It's a needle-in-a-haystack problem, and throwing more hay on the pile doesn't make the problem any easier. Real security comes from old-fashioned investigative work: putting people in charge of investigating potential plots and letting them direct the computers, instead of putting the computers in charge and letting them decide who should be investigated. It's what caught the London liquid bombers last summer, and it's our best hope for our own security in the future." [via the link above]

Interesting that for the last year or so, I have seen government sites, ie., justice-related, on my website visitor statistics.

Mostly my sites deal with Ancient Egypt, archaeology, ancient history, etc., though I have posted some more current topics on my google blog.

What scares me more is what powers the last couple of Executive Orders give the Pres and his minions.

Granted Karen, but one more tibit of truth on Freedom of Information and personal information gathering by Governments, most times this information is vital for the Public benefit and security.  Some who know me here, know some of my stories may raise the hackles of some, but then in my defence I have pretty much spent my working life gathering, researching, profiling and dealing in Facts, everything from Environment (Human Health Risks) to Illegal Drugs and Profiling people of questionable means and activities (Which seems to preoccupy a lot of my time) for both Canadian and US governments and military who rely on my research and insights. The world revolves around infomation and Fact.  I am sure you would appreciate info from police if a convicted child molester was on the loose in your neighbourhood or living next door to you and your children. The only way you would know is if personal information on this person was released to you and the public by a government agency.

As some have said in here, if you have nothing to reveal criminally, then you have nothing to fear. Government agencies in the Intelligence Gathering Communities have no use in gathering "Pillow Talk" from spouses, to them it is white noise.  Pre or Post 911 or not , They have much millions of bigger fish to catch. As for the Big Butt magazines, well I am sure most men only read it for the politically charged articles within the pages a naked babes, at least that is what the Government agents who enjoy one handed reading would state.