Matt Kelley at Change.org wants to know.
This is an issue of privacy, and I understand people who say if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear. That’s the same logic some people use to justify random drug tests or random locker searches in schools.
But where do you draw the line? At suspects? Pure-d criminals? The rest of us?
Dating Jesus 
Chuck Brodsky’s “Dangerous Times” (alas, no video, but you can hear it here: http://chuckbrodsky.com/music.html):
Dangerous Times
There’s terror in our midst
They could be one of us
Behind you in the line
Beside you on the bus
Wearing camouflage
They might be wearing suits
The terrorists among us
Might be wearing army boots
These are dangerous times
People are afraid
No looking back at history
To see how enemies were made
Some dictators are bad
Some dictators are good
That’s a hard one to explain
But I wish somebody would
So let us all agree
Let us not dissent
Let us not ask questions such as
Where our freedoms went
We’ll just fly fly the flag
Sing G-d Bless America
Question people’s patriotism
Who don’t join in the hysteria
These are dangerous times
And so we lose our rights
While these terrorists among us
Do their dirty work at night
There isn’t time to read
The contents of the bills
That Congress votes for anyway
Up there on The Hill
There’s terror in our midst
It wears the good disguise
Fools alot of people
They seem like such regular guys
Rewriting all the rules
You don’t have any say
In fact they even count on you
To look the other way
There’s terror in our midst
All over the tv
It’s what’s behind the words
That scares the daylights out of me
The twisting of the facts
The stretching of the truth
The terrorists among us
They manipulate the news
So let us all agree
Let us not dissent
Let us not ask questions such as
Where our freedoms went
We’re going to build them schools
We’re going to build them banks
We’re going to build them pipelines
From their fields to our tanks
My heart goes out to Johnny
Sent off into war
They convince him it’s for freedom
That he’d lay his life down for
My thoughts are often with him
I pray he comes home safe
And I pray for every innocent
Laid early in the grave
These are dangerous times
You might be overheard
Using one of whatever they’ve defined
As being a dangerous word
What if they don’t like your songs?
What if they don’t like your books?
What if you fit a profile
Based solely on your looks?
They listen to us talk
They read the things we write
They watch us all on cameras
They know where you were last night
They know where you stopped for gas
Which magazines you bought
Back in 1984
This was all just crazy talk
So let us all agree
Let us not dissent
Let us not ask questions such as
Where our freedoms went
Let’s have a look inside those pockets
Let’s have a look inside that purse
Let’s have a look inside that glove box
Or someplace maybe worse
And who was in your house
While you weren’t home
And looked in your computer
And through everything you own?
What did they want to know?
Which websites do you visit?
What have you learned about them?
They want to know – what is it?
So let us all agree
Let us not dissent
Let us not ask questions such as
Where our freedoms went
We’ll just fly fly the flag
Sing G-d Bless America
Question people’s patriotism
Who don’t join in the hysteria
“If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Yes, there’s a statement that really stands up to scrutiny.
Haint THAT the truth?
People are doing to themselves, forget the government. GPA enabled cellphones and family tracking applications.
Soon one will be suspected of the worse for turning off your cell when you are not at home.
“Where were you? Why was your phone off? What are you trying to hide?”
Lord. I’m top on the list of suspects, then. As I type this? I don’t even know where my phone is.
Cell phones have become a very expensive way to leave messages for people. I’m thinking of getting rid of mine, since it is still legal not to have one.
I often think of how life was before them. I actually survived without one.
What about the fight about cameras at traffic lights, used (ostensibly) to catch red-light-runners?
I don’t have as much trouble with that — opponents say “invasion of privacy” but you’re already out in public, on a public street.
I’m not a fan of those, either, and it’s not necessarily because I’m trying to hide anything, either.