Of course they are. PATRIOT Act let's them do whatever they want. That's why I use foreign based email services.
I rarely use my e-mail anyway. I only use it every once in a while because it is more formal than Facebook/Twitter/Tumblr/etc.
Y'all can joke around all you want, but I don't understand why there's very little uproar about having our rights trampled over.
1) I'm not esteban. If you read any of my other posts you'd realize that. 2) Yes, I know Bush signed the Patriot Act. That's one of the many reasons I despise the Bush administration and the neo-conservative establishment. Of course, that's no excuse for Obama to not repeal it, or at least not expand its' usage. Furthermore, I'm perplexed that a people who get up in arms about their government allowing the poor to buy medication are so complacent about their government being able to spy on them, deport them, torture them, and kill them on the flimsy pretext that we label them terrorists.
What else is new? The government taps into our phones, reads our email, goes through mail, and does anything else they want to do. As long as they think no one can stop them, nothing will be done. That's why people need to be more angry about this.
Not you. Esteban actually posted in this thread. Lol. Not to mention phone tapping started in the Cold War. And this has been proven: As long as you label anything potentially invasive as something to protect us then the majority of Americans will just blindly accept it. Its a sad truth, but its not something that can be changed unless there is MASSIVE outcry.
Yes because most members of the "two" parties are in agreement with it so there's nothing anyone can do about it.
No doubt they do, but I've got nothing to hide so I could care less. As long as I don't have to know they're doing it, it doesnt really affect me.
