On Thursday of this week, the U.S. Senate will be examining a set of proposals which could have profound implications for the future of privacy. This should be a no-brainer. The purpose of the Constitution has been to restrain the government, so that it cannot do to us what the king and his soldiers did to our forbearers; and everyone in the Congress has taken a public oath to uphold the Constitution. Is the warrant requirement an obstacle to law enforcement? Of course it is, and it is a good one, one that is guaranteed by the Constitution, and one that respects the natural right to be left alone. Without the warrant requirement, we will soon become like the old East Germany, where crime was low because the police could break down any door, seize any document, and arrest any person on a whim. Who would want to live in such a society?Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/28/whatever-happened-to-right-to-be-left-alone/#ixzz2DXmZCOqb
