just as important, though, the trial exposed the role of sam adams and james otis, jr., in insighting the mob, and boston citizens decided they had had enough of this, enough violence and enough of sam adams, voting him out of office and sent otis back to the insane asylum. the army command felt the same way. their troops, they said, came to america to fight the enemies of the colonists, not the colonists, themselves, who were, after all, their own countrymen. the army pulled out of boston, and peace returned to boston, and the rest of the colonies. the troubles between britain and her colonists should have ended then and there with everyone living happily ever after under the union jack. except, except for one tiny irritant remaining in the economic relationship with the mother land. in repealing the townsend duties, a small group of angry parliamentarians decided they needed to retain some symbol of what they insisted was parliaments absolute authority to tax all british subjects with or without their concerns. although parliament yielded to all demands of the americans, its majorit

that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer, was said by james otis, of much less intrusions than these. justice brandeis goes on to say the principles, the principles literally, mr. president, behind the fourth amendment affect the very essence of constitutional liberty and security. they apply to all invasions on the part of the government and its employees in the sanctities of a man's home and the privacies of life. it's not the breaking of his doors, the rummaging of his drawers that constitutes the essence of the offense but it is the invasion of his indefeasible right of personal security, personal liberty and private property where the right has never been forfeited by his conviction of some public offense. and justice brandeis closes this remarkable, remarkable dissent saying the evil incident to invasion of the privacy of the phone is far greater than that involved in tampering with the mails. as a means of invasion, writs of assistance and general warrants are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared with wiretapping. the pro

i quoted john adams 1769 in his diary where he spent his evenings in the print shop james otis was there and they were cooking up things for the newspaper, essays what john adams would call and occurrence. there may be a reference to a concerted effort that tutto other newspapers and other towns what it was like to live in boston under occupation from 1668 to 1770 they would send up the "journal" of transactions every week. this horrible thing happened. this soldier was bad. this soldier was on trial. that was not published in the boston paper but sent to new york and set stage sent up and down the coast then reprinted in boston. that is a definite effort of one side of the political divide to use the power of the press to use the seaboard for profit. who financed that grex it looks like william cooper, the town clerk was involved. simulacrums station samuel adams was the clerk so he earned a salary as a politician. that was a rare. they put the time into those reports. all averred dickerson wrote about the control and he found in the british government archives with the boston postboy t

james otis, arguably the father of the fourth amendment, put it best when he said one of the most essential branches of english liberty is the freedom of one's house. a man's house is his castle, and while he is quiet, he is well guarded as a prince in his castle. today's castle may be your apartment, and who knows where the information is coming from. it may be paper in your apartment, but it may be bits of data stored who knows where, but there is a reason why we should have our government, why our government should be restrained from invading a sphere of privacy that is a timeless concept. over the past few decades, our right to privacy has been eroded. the fourth amendment protection act will go a long way to restoring this cherished and necessary right. i hope that my colleagues will consider supporting, defending and enhancing the fourth amendment, bringing it into a modern age when modern electronic and computer information and communications are once again protected by the fourth amendment. thank you, and i reserve the balance of my time. mrs. feinstein: madam president, is the nor