read this...fucking brillaint!

[URL]http://www.economist.com/debate/index.cfm?action=article&debate_id=4&story_id=10600829[/URL]

best line: [QUOTE] when the privacy-based provisions in the Bill of Rights were crafted, debated, and adopted by the US in the years immediately after the fledgling country won its independence, the country faced security threats far more dire than those posed our countries nowadays by practitioners of terrorism. Yet in the face of very real threats to the survival of this new country by the world’s then most powerful nation, the drafters of the Bill of Rights incorporated therein very explicit and real limitations on the power of government to invade individuals’ privacy. [/QUOTE]