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    <title>National Fourth Amendment Defense Day</title>
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      <name>lambert</name>
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    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[ <p>UPDATE: And on Capitol Hill, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/terrorist_surveillance">the clocks are striking thirteen</a>. At least in the House. I'm sure that in the Senate, cooler heads will prevail, Obama will heed the wise words of Lord Kos, make a great speech.... ]

<p>[I propose June 20, which is sooner rather than later, because <a href="http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/35718prs20080618.html">this thing is greased</a>; read on for the detail.]</p>

<p>[See the <a href="http://www.thestrangebedfellows.com/">Strange Bedfellows Coalition</a>:</p>
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Ron Paul supporters, the ACLU and liberal<a href="/glossary/term/83" title="Noun. 1. Reality-based. 2. In Republican usage, a hate trigger. Usage example: A liberal isn't afraid to experiment, and change their thinking if the experiment doesn't pan out. Usage example: Liberal programs like Social Security." class="glossary-icon"><img src="/modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a><a href="/glossary/term/83" title=" Liberal programs like Social Security." class="glossary-icon"><img src="/modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a> blogs are uniting
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<p>Excellent! See their money counter at the bottom of this post!]</p>

<p>[Call <a href="http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml">your Representatives</a>; call your <a href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm">Senators</a>. And feel free to post on your polite conversations....]</p>
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<p>Have you read <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html#amendmentiv">the Fourth Amendment</a> lately?</p>
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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.
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<p>The Fourth Amendment, along with the other amendments to the Constitution that form our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights">Bill of Rights</a>, came into effect on December 15, 1791.</p>

<p>The Framers of our Constitution -- and the voters in the states that passed the Bill of Rights -- understood how tyranny worked, and they took a dim view of King George breaking into their homes, rummaging through their desks, opening their mail, and reading whatever the Fuck<a href="/glossary/term/143" title="Our guarantee to you that the post containing this term is not Corporate or Government propaganda. Say Fuck proudly! And get the T-shirt." class="glossary-icon"><img src="/modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a><a href="/glossary/term/143" title="Our guarantee to you that the post containing this term is not Corporate or Government propaganda. Say Fuck proudly! And get the T-shirt." class="glossary-icon"><img src="/modules/glossary/glossary.gif" /></a> he wanted, whenever the fuck he wanted to, without going to a judge for a warrant, and without having to explain what he expected to find when the warrant was executed. The Framers had already had a bellyful of kings.</p>

<P>The Framers understood tyranny, even though they didn't have computers in 1791. And if the Framers <i>had</i> computers, it's plain as day they wouldn't have wanted King George breaking into their hard disks, rummaging through their desk<i>tops</i>, or reading their <i>data</i>--whether the data was email, documents on your hard disk, your telephone calls, your Google searches, or the sites that you surf.</p>

<p>Tyranny is tyranny, no matter the technology.</p>

<p>So it's simple and crystal clear: <b>The Fourth Amendment means that the government doesn't get to read your <i>data</i>--to the Framers, "paper"--without a warrant.</b> </p>

<p>It's simple. And anybody who tries to make it complicated is trying to fuck you.</p>

<P>Well, surprise! The Democrat leadership is trying to fuck you. How?</p>     ]]></summary>
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