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If you want to get a look at just how far our government has gone to intrude and record every aspect of our personal, private lives (and also probably get fucking pissed off at these intrusions!), take a look at this FrontLine report:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_1_frontlinebrspyingonthehomefront_2007-05-15

Here it is in a nutshell: despite specific, concrete LAWS against exactly this: our government can, according to the our current "leaders", and probably has, without judicial oversight of any kind, recorded and combined into a "dossier," at least some of your phone calls, e-mails and web browsing habits, book purchases and library loans, bank and credit card records, as well as travel plans.

There is a wonderful point in the above Frontline program where one guy says that one of the main reasons for the American Revolution was to protest King George's abuse of general warrants, or "writs of assistance" that allowed his men to search inside the homes of whole towns or regions without having any names on those warrants. "They did not ask for proof of guilt; they entered and searched when and where they pleased." More details here:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/Montgomery/mahp134.htm

We Americans need to get waaaaaayyyy more pissed off and vocal about it before our government will take notice and stop these massive abuses of power and erosions of basic civil liberties...