General Discussion

to be on at that time, cannot do you any real harm, unless you are Mel Gibson and your drunken picture at a bar with some women that are not his wife gets on TV coast to coast. Still, although it probably cost him his marriage, he did not end up in jail that time. On the other hand, the cop who has a video cam on the dash of his cruiser can and will arrest him if he's driving while under the influence. Apparently, that too did happen to him.

It is a matter of power. Employers do it to their employees all the time and they have the power to fire them. Having your government willy nilly monitoring all your communication devices can be used against you. Maybe the Obama administration is benign in its use and really just wants to ferret out terrorists, but what happens when we get our next Republican ghouls, who stole an election, in power and they want to put in jail anyone who isn't a fundamentalist Christian because Jesus told them to? I say we need to force them to stick to the Fourth Amendment and get warrants first. That is the ultimate law of the land and until the Fourth Amendment is repealed, no other laws making this okay are really legal.

I wish some activist lawyers, like Mike Papantonio and company, would look into this.