Keep in mind that the same organizations advocating the destruction of constitutional guarantees of liberty and freedom are the same organizations that conduct

Keep in mind that the same organizations advocating the destruction of constitutional guarantees of liberty and freedom are the same organizations that conduct clandestine and often illegal investigations of people like Martin Luther King. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO This isn't a nerd fantasy, the reality is that the FBI is interested in things like which political candidate you support. These aren't investigations to catch criminals, these are investigations to subvert the rule of law and hamper the democratic process. There wasn't a supreme court decision saying that passwords are testimony because the FBI believed it was testimony, the supreme court decision came about because the FBI believed that it was perfectly constitutional to demand citizens testify against themselves. The mandate of the FBI should not be "maintaining the existing social and political order." From the Church Committee: Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone "bugs", surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous -- and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations -- have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity.