COMMENTARY: Supreme Court Ruling Destroys Americans' Freedom, OKs a U.S. Police State

In a critical decision this week that destroys many of the freedoms that our forefathers fought so hard to attain, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it is all right for the government to secretly monitor any American's telephone calls, e-mails, and other electronic data.

We disagree with the supreme court's decision, as we believe it is a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The Fourth Amendment protects "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures..."

The decision, in effect, gives the U.S. government a free rein in conducting surveillance of individuals who have not even been suspected of committing a crime. We view this phenomenon as "unlimited government snooping."

This totalitarian form of government -- now prevalent in the United States -- resulted as a by-product of the fear of terrorism that pervaded our nation after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

This exceptional fear resulted in the Fourth Amendment being temporarily repealed by congress, and Presidents Bush and Obama signing off on it. The time is long overdue for congress to reactivate the Fourth Amendment -- and thus end illegal government snooping -- since its "temporary" repeal has already outlived its original purpose, and indeed can no longer be justified.

Now -- more than 10 years after the 2001 terrorist attacks in America -- the supreme court has destroyed the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights, in effect turning our nation into a despotic surveillance police state. Moreover, the current federal government -- in its quest for unlimited power --  has usurped the control of several human rights that Americans used to enjoy.

This is the kind of police state that prevailed for over 70 years in the former communist Soviet Union -- a type of state that we never dreamed could be a part of America's democracy. Unfortunately, it now is.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and its communism in 1991 resulted in the end of that police state, and the vast majority of Russians today are thankful for that transition.

Hopefully, Americans will regain the human rights to which they are entitled, but have now lost, and the democratic form of government that they no longer can fully enjoy, in the not-too-distant future.