Wire tapping is there to do one thing and one thing only, catch people who are planning to do illegal activities. Wire tapping is not there to and will not be used to round up political dissenters and throw them in jail or catch John Smith from Nebraska saying bad things about the president. You have nothing to fear from wire tapping unless you are planning on doing an illegal activity such as planning a terrorist attack.

Even if the government was to wiretap someone and they said something bad about the president and some people came and threw him in jail, the press would grab a hold of that almost immediately. That person undoubtedly knows other people considering that he was talking on the phone to someone. Those people will wonder why he was suddenly taken from his home and thrown in jail. There will be interviews, television coverage, 'experts' coming on and talking about it, the works. They will hold the government accountable for it and the government will lose a lot of its credibility in the eyes of many people. This is why that will never happen.

So, returning to what I said earlier, the only people who have anything to fear from wire tapping is those who are doing something wrong in the first place.

Besides, the government is not some evil machine intent on oppressing opinions of people, the government is made up of your neighbors, your sons, your daughters, etc...