Privacy

Since we have been talking about this today in class I want to give my piece of opinion about the topic.
The right to privacy is threatened as never before in modern history by the policies of the Bush white house and the Ashcroft justice department.
Some people may say: “I don’t have nothing to hide, let them watch me.” Might as well put a camera in their bathrooms. Let them watch! Some might say: “Find it in the Constitution, then I will be against warrant less wiretapping." But the thing is that there were no phones and internet back in 1776 so it could not have been written.
A big political issue because of the "Patriot's Act". I understand the need to protect our country, but why is the government seizing library records without warrants? I don't think that anyone cares about cameras set up in the city or the streets (except for the local criminals), just as long as they keep it out of my house. Ashcroft's "Patriot Act" is pretty argumentative. Every person must have a right for privacy, and shouldn’t be watched or wiretapped without a judge giving a permission for that. It is understandable why government does not want to this the legal way. If they needed a warrant for every person they want to watch, it would be too much work that has to be done to track every suspect the legal way. With all the hyperbole that's being thrown around, it wouldn't surprise me if political dissidents or 15 year old, who downloaded the new Eminem song, were considered "terrorists" and affected by this bill. Ben Franklin once said, "They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" . The way I personally look at the issue if you don't actually have control over your possessions, yourself, and what you do, you don't own your life.