Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo

-Gamble your own money.
-Drink certain types of alcohol.
-Use certain drugs (prescription and other).
-Hiring people you want.
-Accepting people you want in your school.
-Serve people you want in your business.
-Swear on TV and radio.
-Sell sexual services for money.
-Sell many types of consensual pornography (anything that is deemed obscene).
-Open a bank account without a government check.
-Marry more than one person.

Those are all federal. State and local laws are still laws infringing on freedoms. The topic was about America and lack of freedoms.

The wiretapping isn't about whether or not they are wiretapping you for a good reason, it's whether they can wiretap you for no reason (which they can).