i hear you keep telling us we're protected by the rule of law based upon the constitution, but then again you haven't considered things like what we're now facing;

According to the ACLU, in September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 – and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month. According to the most recent numbers, the list size is now approaching 3 million people, many of whom are US citizens. 

While this list is nefarious for many reasons — namely because it is secret as to how your name gets on it, and the government will never release those names — it is reportedly used to combat terrorism. People on this list, according to the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center, have alleged ties to terrorism.

There is another list, however, that is far more iniquitous in nature. The administration of President Donald Trump — who reportedly found himself subject to warrantless surveillance during the election — has created a new list, that for the first time since 9/11, includes American citizens with no connections to terrorism.

Like the FBI’s list, this new watchlist — dubbed the Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) watchlist — authorized through a classified Attorney General order and launched in 2017, is expected to grow to well over one million names.

According to an in depth Newsweek investigation, it also allows the government to track and monitor Americans without a warrant, even when there is no evidence they’re breaking the law.

If you need to do so, read that above sentence again and let that sink in. Law enforcement in America can now reportedly track and monitor Americans who have not been accused of a crime and do so without first obtaining a warrant. As Newsweek reports:.........read more..........