The Patriot Act?

[Super Christ]

The Right to Privacy is a myth, like the seperation of church and state. The only "privacy" you are granted is that by the 4th amendment - the protection against unreasonable search and seizure(basically, being arrested/searched without a warrant). There are also some federal regulations and laws towards how police can get evidence which deals with the "expectation of privacy," but that's about it.

Not quite, I'd say;

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Which basically says that the constitution doesn't have to spell out every right people have, for them to have it. Privacy is considered a right by most of the public, and so it is a right. I'm not a lawyer, but based on that amendment, I'd be inclined to say that a very convincing argument could be made that any law, or judge ruling, that violates privacy is unconstitutional.

In a national poll that was handed around my campus, an astonishing number(it was somewhere between 20-40% for each - I can't remember the exact numbers) of high school students thought that free speech was being protected too much, and thought that newspaper articles should be federally regulated. That kind of thing scares me.

I wonder how these dumb high school kids would feel if they had someone follow them for a week and tell them what they can and can not say. Then see what they say about the matter. Idiots.