"Exactly right!"
--Wade Garrett (Road House)
Rand Paul discusses the intent of a group of congressmen to take legal action against the federal government for infringing on Americans' Fourth Amendment rights.
Many, including the president, have defended the recent government spying activities on the grounds that we should trust the government. However, as Paul notes,
"Our Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible."
Precisely.
RP further observes that indiscriminate monitoring of citizens is just the kind of general warranting that we fought a revolution over. The Fourth Amendment clearly states that warrants must be specific to the person and place.
Current federal government practices feed "the inevitable arrogance of power."
In God we trust. Yes. In government we trust. No.
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From this investigation into the organization of this government, it appears that it is devoid of all responsibility or accountability to the great body of the people, and that so far from being a regular balanced government, it would be in practice a permanent ARISTOCRACY.
~Centinel #1, October 5, 1787
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