We Federales!

"We don't need no stinkin' warrant!"

No need for a warrant if you want to listen in on a dangerous person here in the USA - we are the Federal Government! Whatever happened to those conservatives I used to hear about, the ones who distrust government and don't want it to have too much power over individuals? "Don't ya' know, there's a war on, kid!"

Last I heard, the court that was set up to review requests for domestic surveillance virtually never refuses to grant the warrant, and even if a rush job is needed, the court will grant them retroactively! So, in our struggle with our enemies, can't we live with that little bit of judicial review, so that when the dust in the war on terror settles, our government doesn't take it into its head to start spying on people whom it just happens not to like? They do do that sort of thing, you know.

As for the image above, I owe this to one of the more amusing and bizarre websites I've come across. Take a look at Joe's Painted Soldiers.