You mean to tell me that you have trusted our government all this time, until you suddenly found out that the NSA was snooping on us? How shocking!

No government ought to be trusted, least of all in a democracy, when we can at least act on our distrust. Personally, I trust government as far as I can throw it.

What I'm saying is that we ought to worry about things that we can have an effect on. Everything else, be it NSA spying, plane crashes, earthquakes, or getting robbed at the ATM, is more or less out of our control, and is happening no matter what. So I don't believe in lamenting things that I have no control over. If I can do something about it, I will. Otherwise, I add it to the list of things about this world that I know about, and leave it at that.

As for the 4th and 5th amendments, you can believe that our rights are absolutely sacrosanct if you want to. As far as I am concerned, they've stopped being inviolable a long time ago. So again, I'm not going to lose sleep over that now.

On the other hand, there is no need to over-react. "Monitoring" is not the same as "searching and seizing". Also, I haven't heard of a single case where a person was charged with anything based on NSA snooping. If you have, please enlighten me. Quoting these amendments is the same thing as dropping names. It's an easy way to attempt to gain legitimacy in your argument. It doesn't really work unless you can back up your argument, though.