Every day that passes, the citizens of our Republic
come under increasing surveillance by our government. As one reads of
the crescendo of new and more intrusive means used by Washington to
monitor citizens of this nation, one awakens to the sense that these
activities will never end, and that soon there will be no phone call, no
text message, no blog post, no social media update that will not be
received and recorded by agents of our own intelligence community.
Take for example the story published Monday in the New York Times. In a report issued by cellphone carriers, described in the Times
article, the mobile phone providers indicated that last year they
received 1.3 million demands from “law enforcement agencies” for access
to the text messages and locations of subscribers to the cellphone
companies’ service.-[Full Article]