NSA Spying inside America

The NSA knows who you've called. They know where you were - as you were at home. So the government knows when you talked, with whom, and where you were. For the last couple of years. Do they really need to have that information ? Do you really want them to have that information?

The question here is where to draw the line. Because if you don't draw it correctly - well you may never get the chance to redraw.

Once again the government is claiming the laws need not apply to them. This is very disturbing as it is mere law that protects you from the state. Law that gives you a right to a trial by jury - or a trial at all.

The laws were written for a reason. The lines drawn in a place. Now is not the time to back down, to redraw the lines. We've done that a lot recently, even knowing the time to redraw is before the line is crossed - not after. However this time around the line crossed does affect you. And everyone you know. No one is exempt. And no one was told.

The government is not following the law (1). And it is spying on it's citizens. When did that become acceptable?

This is line too far - and the NSA needs to be put back in it's box.

Links:

• Original USA Today story
• The sidebar to that story.
• Boston Herald
• Slashdot on Pen Registers

1: And they know it. They refused to get a FISA court order when asked to, because they didn't think they would get one.

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