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American Independence While Abetting Tyranny    By Senator Rand
Paul   As is always the case with government power, this policy
was widely abused. When the Founding Fathers drafted and
ratified the U.S. Constitution, they included the Fourth
Amendment - the prohibition of search and seizure - to guarantee
that no such affronts to liberty would happen again.  That is,
if we follow the Constitution.  Today, we see a government
agency that thinks its has the power to search citizens by going
from phone-to-phone, gathering any-and-all data to examine to
their hearts' content. The National Security Agency phone
scandal is precisely the sort of government action the Founding
Fathers fought a revolution to stop and why we celebrate the
Fourth of July holiday.  We also have an Internal Revenue
Service that targets political dissidents, which is a direct
violation of the First Amendment. A Depart