Government Surveilance

To answer your responses (as a woman, by the way, not a man): 1. In order for the judges to sign off for a government search of property, the government would have to submit evidence as to why they are looking for the information. Then, there would have to be a limit as to exactly where and what they can look at for each citizen. The government would need evidence against every single citizen for this to actually be legal and moral. 2. How does the government control the news? Are you honestly asking me that? The government is controlling how much we know about where the money is going, what they're testing.. why are they so afraid of hackers if they have nothing to hide? The government censors what they don't want us to see, what they don't want us to know. They're taking away our freedom of speech. Only recently was the gay community allowed the right to marriage. Control. Women are paid an average of 20 cents less than men for doing the same job. Control. The government controversy of gun rights is a large debate. The signs saying 'no weapons allowed'. Control. Taxes are monitored by the government. They want something done, a wall for example, they will increase the taxes. We have no say. Control. The signs all over public places, banning smoking. Control. 3. The big reason for government surveillance is to protect our nation against terrorist attacks. This is saying that our nation is in danger of receiving an attack every day. That our families are constantly in danger. I don't know about you, but I don't see terrorist attacks happening every day in our country. So why would you put up your privacy for our government when we aren't even at risk every day? If the government holds our information, it would only make our country more of a target. Other nations would want our information. Doesn't that only increase our danger? 4. There are many other ways to stop crime in our country that aren't looking through the citizen's private information such as increasing officers, gun controls.. there are plenty of moral ways to go about this. ... And my response/rebuttal: If the government surveillance was such a harmless act, why was it such a big deal when Snowden blew the cover off the operation? Why keep it a secret? People like to know that their privacy is protected by the amendments. When one of their amendments is broken, people tend to react. Privacy is something to be valued, not stolen by governments. With social media, people are willing giving away their information. They know the risks. They know what they're doing. They know what they're giving away. With the government, people don't have a choice. Their privacy and information is stolen and put in the hands of our government. People don't have a choice what the government sees. What does that make us as a nation? Our government is stealing our information as we create it. Now, if we allow the government to watch/listen to our calls, texts, emails, and internet searches, how far will they go? If they're allowed to break an amendment, what's to stop them from putting up camera in our houses? Tracking our locations? Constantly listening to our conversations? People will learn to fear the government. Is that how a nation is supposed to be? Is that what we want to be known by? The government that's taking over it's citizen's lives? I do realize that's a little on the extreme side. If you were to support this cause, you have to think about the future and what it holds. From all of my world history and basic common sense, I know this: People are greedy. Once they have one unreachable thing, they will strive for the next thing, and the next. Where does it end? Where will they stop?