They are spying on us, but they can't do anything about it because it's illegal to do so.
They can't admit any evidence into court, but they absolutely would be able to if you allowed them to legalize it.
Get over yourself. It's just because you don't like the answer. Because you didn't grasp the distinction between what they can do with this information if it is legalized.
Your inability to grasp that distinction is not my problem.
The chances of you breaking a federal law is just about 100% at some point or other due to how bloated the laws have gotten.
Have you gone to prison for it?
Doubtful.
Legalizing it is a red line, period. The snark about how "it doesn't stop them from spying" is true, but it makes it much more difficult to actually prosecute.
Which is why I said it stops them in courts, and not that it stops them from spying to begin with.
To be clear, we need to get the reins on this -- on said "easy warrants", and on spying. But the way to get reins on it is not to act apathetic to them spying regardless while they attempt to legalize it. The first step is to aggressively oppose that legalization. It is always harder to repeal.
Wrong, they can do a lot with that information. They can reverse build a case against you, manufactured totally out of the intel. This illegal spying can be used to blackmail. It cannot be allowed to happen.
You stopped this from being a friendly conversation from the jump. Downvoting instantly when you could have simply argued a point ("parallel construction") and then understood where I'm coming from (we can't become so apathetic to their garbage that they actually legalize it) was pretty lame.
Apologies if I am overreacting, I probably am. My patience is thin as I am having my first kidney stone and it is a truly awful experience.
It's not that I don't like your answer. It's that your answer is wrong.
No, my answer is objectively correct.
They are spying on us, but they can't do anything about it because it's illegal to do so.
They can't admit any evidence into court, but they absolutely would be able to if you allowed them to legalize it.
Get over yourself. It's just because you don't like the answer. Because you didn't grasp the distinction between what they can do with this information if it is legalized.
Your inability to grasp that distinction is not my problem.
getting a legal warrant is a trivial matter and has been for a long time.
Separate issue.
The chances of you breaking a federal law is just about 100% at some point or other due to how bloated the laws have gotten.
Have you gone to prison for it?
Doubtful.
Legalizing it is a red line, period. The snark about how "it doesn't stop them from spying" is true, but it makes it much more difficult to actually prosecute.
Which is why I said it stops them in courts, and not that it stops them from spying to begin with.
To be clear, we need to get the reins on this -- on said "easy warrants", and on spying. But the way to get reins on it is not to act apathetic to them spying regardless while they attempt to legalize it. The first step is to aggressively oppose that legalization. It is always harder to repeal.
Wrong, they can do a lot with that information. They can reverse build a case against you, manufactured totally out of the intel. This illegal spying can be used to blackmail. It cannot be allowed to happen.
They can do that, yes. If you are important enough to them, and they can get judges to sign off on it.
Nor can apathy to legalizing it, which is even worse and anyone should understand this.
There is no check or balance once it's legalized. It is already nearly impossible to repeal this sort of thing.
Once that door is built, it's going to keep being opened.
Sounds like you need to get over yourself friend.
Just like how laws don't stop gangs from shooting each other, they don't stop government crooks from violating our constitutional rights.
You stopped this from being a friendly conversation from the jump. Downvoting instantly when you could have simply argued a point ("parallel construction") and then understood where I'm coming from (we can't become so apathetic to their garbage that they actually legalize it) was pretty lame.
Apologies if I am overreacting, I probably am. My patience is thin as I am having my first kidney stone and it is a truly awful experience.