google and the government

[wolf]

I think the 4th and 5th amendments are more specific as to privacy, but I'm not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV.

Imprint, do you use EZPass?

[xoxoxoBruce]

The administration is pushing back hard, defending its surveillance as helping to protect the nation from terrorism and, to a lesser extent, shield minors from pornography.

When they know their on thin ice they always fall back on "It's for the children, think of the children".

"We are trying to gather up information in order to help the enforcement of a federal law to ensure the protection, quite frankly, of our nation's children against pornography," Gonzales said in Washington on Friday.

Again.

"The American people want us to do everything in our power to prevent attacks," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Friday.

Which American people? 50%? 75%? 99.999999%? It doesn't fucking matter. We are a country of laws.... laws that everybody is supposed to follow, public and private, or suffer the consequences. If "The American People" want this, then change the law. No ignoring, no circumventing, change the damn law. If it doesn't pass constitutional muster, forget it, or change the Constitution. Good luck with that.