Quote Originally Posted by bucknuts1870
They aren't bending the privacy laws to catch Joe Pothead smoking a blunt or pushing a few ounces. They are trying to catch Mohammed building a cell phone detonator for his breifcase sized nuclear bomb that he purchased from a militant islamic nuclear physicist living in Tehran(I forget his name). Said terrorist is planning to set off this small nuke let's say, from a boat on the Potomac? How would THAT effect this country and the world. Give them all the power they want, they aren't listening in on Jane Smith in Paducah, Kentucky. They are listening to Akbar talking to his child hood friend in Lebanon, or Zawahiri contacting his sleeper cell in Nebraska.

It is important to have people in power that are willing to bend the rules to accomplish the task at hand. If this country were run by the ACLU we would all be killed, famined, poverty stricken, or stuck in a depression.
Stop sacrificing our freedoms in the name of false government protection! The ACLU simply fights for people who have no one behind them. This is completely noble and deserves to be commended. It's sad that some are so misinformed they vilify such groups.