Judge Andrew Napolitano provides a brief and excellent introduction to the US government’s mass spying program in a new video monologue this week at Fox News. In less than a minute and a half, Napolitano explains that the mass spying program of the National Security Agency (NSA) and other US agencies is a reincarnation, with a huge technological boost, of Britain’s use of general warrants in colonial America. Those despised general warrants helped drive Americans to fight for independence. After the war, Americans then demanded the protection of the Fourth Amendment in the US Constitution to ensure that such arbitrary and unjust government actions would not occur again.
Watch Napolitano, a Ron Paul Institute Advisory Board member, present his concise history lesson here:
For more of Napolitano’s latest analysis regarding surveillance and liberty, read his most recent column here and watch his Friday morning Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) debate against former NSA and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Michael Hayden here.
