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You wouldn't even know if the government was wiretapping you unless:
a) you were doing something wrong and they grabbed you
b) someone leaked the fact that they were wiretapping you
In the first case, you are doing/planning something illegal. In the second case, someone else has done something illegal. So, you'd only know about it through illegal means anyways. So, I don't see why it even concerns you.
So what if the government is listening to your phone calls. They are doing it to stop terrorist attacks before they happen. If listening to my calls and everyone else's calls keeps people more safe than thats part of the government's job.
How would you feel if there was another terrorist attack on US soil and your son, daughter, mom, dad, husband, wife, or anyone else you knew was killed and you learned that they communicated using telephones for part of the planning of the attack. We could have stopped it but you didn't want the wiretapping. You didn't want the security and then you blame the government for not making you secure. Just like before 9/11. People were wondering how the government had let that happen but we had the intelligence community that we wanted. The budget for it had been shrinking and shrinking since the end of the Cold War because the American people didn't see it as being all that necessary anymore.
People who don't think the government should be wiretapping are making the same mistake as the people who think the government should not hold Jose Padilla because he hadn't done anything wrong yet. And this is a man affiliated with al Qaeda who knows how to make bombs and went to terrorist training camps. Apparently people only want to put people in jail after they blow something up and kill many people and they don't want the government to be able to find out who these people are through wiretapping.
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