> We have advanced weaponry, but we don't spend life at the point of a gun. That's kind of the point though. After the Cold War we gave the military every capa

> We have advanced weaponry, but we don't spend life at the point of a gun. That's kind of the point though. After the Cold War we gave the military every capability needed to oppress us 1000x over without too much fretting about police states, trusting that the government would not force us to live at the point of a gun. We didn't simply forbid the military from having missiles, which is the proposed equivalent here. > The government always had the ability to monitor all of our phone metadata, they just weren't allowed to. Sure they were, ever since Smith v. Maryland, and for all the years before Katz v. United States. Any prohibitions on what government could look at regarding business records or on the wire were imposed by Congress, not by the Constitution.