so far so good al!!!

you seem to have some stones AND of course a sense of what's right and what's wrong. you seem to actually WANT TO FOLLOW OUR CONSTITUTION. oh and unlike (it's a guess here on my part, but i'm SURE i'm right) every or any other senator, YOU CAN DRAW A MAP OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BY STATE, BY MEMORY

Al Franken Reads the 4th Amendment to Justice Department Official

By Daphne Eviatar

Just in case he wasn’t familiar with it, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) decided to read the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution to David Kris, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, who was testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee today to urge reauthorization of expiring provisions of the USA Patriot Act.

Franken, who opened by acknowledging that unlike most of his colleagues in the Senate, he’s not a lawyer, but according to his research “most Americans aren’t lawyers” either, said he’d also done research on the Patriot Act and in particular, the “roving wiretap” provision that allows the FBI to get a warrant to wiretap a an unnamed target and his or her various and changing cell phones, computers and other communication devices...........

AMENDMENTS?

we don't need no stinkin' amendments! especially in THIS case, the FOURTH one:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Memo Shows Bush Administration Says to Hell with Fourth Amendment Rights

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet

News last week of former White House lawyer John Yoo's recently disclosed 2003 memo positing, among other things, that the president's authority as commander in chief allows him to override federal laws prohibiting "assault, maiming, and other crimes" against suspects in the "war on terror," was followed by a second revelation: an alarming footnote on page 8 referring to another secret memo, written shortly after 9/11, and, in the name of national security, dispensing with the Fourth Amendment.
In the age of the "war on terror," according to the footnote, the Department of Justice "recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations." (Emphasis in the original.)
The Fourth Amendment, of course, lays out "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Critics of the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program -- which was started in the same weeks the memo was written -- have staked their claims in part on its violation of this right. Proof that the program originated at the same time that the White House officially jettisoned the Fourth Amendment in the name of national security is a damning -- if not surprising -- revelation........

you do know i'm MORE mad, not at the fact king george and his court stomped on our rights BUT that we (especially those in our congress and senate) continue to ALLOW them to do so