<blockquote>Phone and e-mail surveillance, databases for dissidents, threat assessments, terror watch lists, militarized police, SWAT-team raids, security checkpoints, lockdowns, roadside strip searches: There was a time when any one of these encroachments on our Fourth Amendment rights would have roused the public to outrage. Today, such violations are shrugged off matter-of-factly by Americans who have been assiduously groomed to accept the intrusions of the police state into their private lives.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.rcreader.com/69-reader-articles/commentary/guest-commentaries/44687-we-the-prisoners-demise-fourth-amendment">“We the Prisoners”: The Demise of the Fourth Amendment</a>.