What’s even scarier is what is permanently being done to the erosion of civil liberties we face as citizens. Over fifty-years ago a law professor wrote:

“May it not well be that the greatest danger to our institutions lies not in the threats of foreigners but in our own weakness in yielding to emotion and our increasing readiness to minimize and disregard the fundamental rights of the individual?”

66 Har. Law Rev. 1, New Encroachments on Freedom, at p.26 John Lord O’Brian(1952)

In this law review article he recounts some of WW II hysteria where some people were quietly being jailed for terms of 20 years on charges of subversive comments. Not t@ro*ism mind you, but only a sole charge of “subversive comment.”

I wonder where the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution went then and now?