Pres. Obama validated Americans' right to privacy in a recent speech, but that's all it was: a speech. There is no real evidence that he has any intention of stopping the now well known practice of the National Security Agency's practice of downloading the times, dates, and phone numbers of every American making or receiving a phone call from any other American.
What did Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tweet after Obama's speech?
"If you like your privacy, you can keep it."
Paul also posted the "Cliff Notes" version of Obama's Bill of Rights with the Fourth Amendment blacked out like the CIA's blacked-out, expurgated copy of Gary Berntsen's book Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander, a fascinating book about how the best CIA commanders can be foiled in their successful work by the dumbest general (Tommy Franks).
Neither Sen. Paul nor Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has dropped his lawsuit against the government for violating the Fourth Amendment, which reads, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
We can't let anyone, Democrat or Republican, start unraveling the Constitution, whether he or she taught constitutional law or not. I'm beginning to think Pres. Obama studied constitutional law just to find ways to ignore and violate it.
No matter how likable you may find the current president, you can't let him give himself and future presidents the keys to a police state.
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