Whether should americans concern about surveillance, both publicly and privately?

Question

What is the advantage and diadvantage?

Answer 1

I guess so. Read the fourth amendment.

It's not a matter of advantage or disadvantage. It's a matter of principles. If the Constitution is not good enough to live the life you want, ask for a change. It's amazing how easy is for everyone to forget about the Constitution for more convenient reasons.

Answer 2

There is absolutely NO legitimate explanation for surveillance of American citizens.

If an American has engaged in suspicious activity, it is a simple LEGAL matter to get a warrant and have them LEGITIMATELY put under surveillance.

Any other activity is SPYING, is ILLEGAL, and is brazenly in violation of the very clear, completely unambiguous wording of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.

IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY.

Answer 3

What advantage is there..............

Answer 4

I'm not sure. On February 19, 1995 President William Jefferson Clinton signed Executive Order # 12949 which authorized both electronic surveillance and physical searches without warrants for a period of up to 72 hours. I don't recall hearing a great big noise from civil rights groups and other political organizations about it. I do recall certain members of the Congress expressing grave concern about the current administration carrying out such warrantless electronic surveillance. The senior Senator from my state (and also the Senate Majority Leader) was particularly upset about this policy. Of course, when I reminded him through his staff that he had voted "Aye" twice on Public Law #107-108 at the end of 2001 to permit this very program in Section 314 of that law, his objections seemed to have faded from the daily doings in the media.

In fact, all 100 members of the Senate voted "Aye" on that law.

I've not seen any evidence of the NSA or the Justice Department using the authority in P.L. #107-108 to do warrantless electronic surveillance on Americans who were only involved in domestic phone calls. Worrying about privacy when one uses a cell phone is, of course, ludicrous. A cell phone is merely a miniature radio. Tune in to the frequency of that phone and you can listen to your heart's content.

Answer 5

We have cells phones every 5 feet with people talking on them.  So they of course cannot expect any reasonable privacy.  We do not have the resources to watch every single person, so the focus is on those that are either known to be a problem, or are questionable.  I'm cool with it.

Answer 6

Surveillance without regard to the 4th Amendment will render us all most forlorn.