Government versus Privacy

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.

That's the complete text of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution.  At roughly fifty words, it's very simple and concise. One doesn't need a pointy-headed liberal law professor to explain it.  It says exactly what it says, as do the other nine amendments of the original Bill of Rights.  This one says the government has no business in your personal and private effects.  Gee, given blatant governmental over stepping of its authority, that must mean this regime is acting unlawfully and in direct contravention to the Constitution. Ya think!?  The government's spy agencies, CIA and NSA among them, have dozens of operations designed to track you and every word you write or utter.  Warrantless stops (stop and frisk, TSA groping), electronic spying, monitoring of telephone calls, tracking internet use, undisclosed facial recognition, drone surveillance, inspection of medical records or tax returns, red light cameras and so much more are ALL illegal.  Now what do we do?  Protest?  Vote?

The time for those civil processes has passed. The Feds know it, too.  They know that most people are Fed up (pun intended) with the heavy handedness of this government in every capacity, and they fear a backlash.  Riots certainly, armed insurrection absolutely.  That's why this regime has armed to the teeth heretofore non-law enforcement government agencies.  Those agencies whose responsibilities seem to have little to do with combating crime now carry heavily armed active law enforcement operations.  How about this partial list of agencies and their newly empowered enforcement duties:

• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. Bureau of Land Management
• U.S. Department of the Interior
• U.S. Postal Inspection Service
• National Park Service
• Environmental Protection Agency
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admonsistration

The government can't detain you for mere suspicion - legally.  Of course, with all that firepower at their disposal, one would be hesitant to draw down on agents of any of these previously benign agencies even if one were carrying legally.  So now here's the conundrum: the law means nothing when one is confronted with heavily armed jackbooted government thugs.  This regime has turned the Constitution on its head.  Think long and hard about that in November, and if we still have the chance, again in November of 2016.