What's so "messed up" about it?

Look, the technology is nothing new, it's been around for years. Also, the government would still need a warrant before monitoring you, so by the time your cell phone would be used against you your entire life would already be under monitoring. It's a sort of last ditch effort to bug mobsters and al Qaeda, who are all too privy avoiding Freudian slips. Remember, it's possible to record conversations in someone's home by pointing a laser beam through their window, and someone 50 feet away from you can figure out what you're typing on your computer by monitoring its electro-magnetic field. Invasive technologies are nothing new and Big Brother arrived many decades ago.

My point is there are legitimate uses of the technology and there are limitations to the use (e.g. warrants). You, me, and 99.99% of the general population will never have our cell phones discreetly turned on. Yes, sure, no doubt, there will be abuses and that's sad, but that doesn't cancel its legitimacy.