And So It Begins

Hello My Dear Friends. One day, hopefully years from now, we will ask "how did this country get so out of control"? I surmise that we will reflect on this point in time and say this is where it all began. Let's start with these new revelations coming from the IRS. Apparently, referencing the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the IRS believes it has the right to read your private e-mail, no warrant required., and that's exactly what they've been doing! The obviously outdated law basically says that we have "no expectation of privacy" when using e-mail. The Fourth Amendment you say? Nope. Here's an excerpt from the IRS Search Warrant Handbook":
“The Fourth Amendment does not protect communications held in electronic storage, such as email messages stored on a server, because internet users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications.”
It doesn't stop there. If the IRS believes that you have filed false information on your tax return they also have the "right" to access your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media accounts to search for proof that you've lied!  No expectation of privacy there either. So much for the Fourth Amendment.
Now, let's examine the plight of an unnamed Erie County man who received a letter from the Pistol Permit Department telling him his that his license had been immediately revoked upon receiving information that he had seen a therapist and been prescribed an anti-anxiety drug. How would they know that? The man in this case has no criminal record and no history of violence. He was ordered to turn his guns over to the police or the police would come and confiscate them. HIPPA Laws anyone? Apparently under New York's new NY Safe Act. Now anyone can share your "private" medical information with the government? It seems so. Let's see. This appears to violate the Second, Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Yikes! We're running out guarantees here. As it turns out, after lawyers got involved, the man who was ordered to turn over his weapons (which he did) was not the person the letter was intended for. They sent it to the WRONG PERSON! So, in the State's zeal to confiscate weapons from legal gun owners, they didn't even bother to confirm that they had the right person. I feel so much safer now. So let's review. We lost our First Amendment Rights years ago. Our Second and Fourth Amendment rights are on life support. Taking people's property (guns) without due process of law end our 5th Amendment rights. The 9th Amendment has always been too vague to matter. Obamacare took out the Tenth Amendment. My, my. The Bill of Rights appears to be shrinking. Add to this the now infamous "Sequestration", ever growing "fees" on everything we touch and the passive raising of our taxes and I'm pretty sure that's why the Sons of Liberty threw all of that tea into Boston Harbor in 1773. We've come a long way baby!
Po