Bush stomps on Fourth Amendment

In cased you haven't noticed, the 4th amendment has been in tatters since the beginning of the 'war on Drugs.'

What we need to do is stop declaring war, period; because everytime we do, there goes another chunk of the Bill of Rights, swirling right down the old toilet bowl

Certainly, we should stop declaring war on innanimate objects and emotional states, because it's stupid.

Bush stomps on Fourth Amendment - The Boston Globe:

"THE ESCALATING controversy over the National Security Agency's data mining program illustrates yet again how the Bush administration's intrusions on personal privacy based on a post-9/11 mantra of ''national security' directly threaten one of the enduring sources of that security: the Fourth Amendment ''right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.'"