Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones
I think a lot of libertarians miss the fact that many of the communications monitoring aspects that the administration is proposing includes authorization by court order.<p>It&#x27;s not like your communications are being monitored by random government employees at will for no reason.  There&#x27;s a specific safeguard here for personal privacy, and that&#x27;s through a court order.<p>If government is monitoring your communications, then there&#x27;s a pretty dammed good reason, as determined by a judge.<p>Sure, you might call that final safeguard as not enough or susceptible to corruption, but once you do that, you cease to be able to function in a society.<p>Judicial review is the &quot;trust zone&quot; that citizens are expected to have on society.  If you don&#x27;t trust judicial review, then there&#x27;s no hope left for you to function in a normal society filled with other people.  If you don&#x27;t have such a &quot;trust zone&quot; in government, then you are basically forced to build your own army to protect you, since you don&#x27;t trust government.<p>Since having your personal army is stupid, your best option is to make sure judicial review cannot be corrupted.