Reply #15: All of the things they've done - the warrantless wiretapping, [View All]

[Lautremont]

mail searches, etc., infringe on your rights whether or not its your particular phone, mail, library books or whatever that they've been snooping. That's what this person doesn't get. They think the infringement part happens one person at a time, when in fact it happens to the whole country at the same time as these policies go into effect.

So this person you're arguing with is just fundamentally wrong, as is so often the case with these people. The actual moment when your personal phone is tapped is just the end point; the compromising of constitutional rights begins much earlier, and is occurring whether or not the government ever peeks at your mail, imprisons you without cause or representation, or sneeks peeks at your library borrowing history.