says: I haven't had any of my rights stamped on and won't, unless I decide to sit at home with my wife and kids and plan violent acts against the USA and its citizens.

What a pre-9/11 mentality that is.

You see, now that the entire world is a battlefield ("Global War on Terror"), everyone is a combatant ("you're either with us or you're with the terrorists"). Since anyone can be a terrorist, everyone is a suspect.

But Tiberius the not particularly bright says "as long as I'm not doing anything wrong, I have nothing to worry about." But Tiberius the not particularly bright may think he isn't doing anything wrong, but he can't prove it. All he can say is "I'm not doing anything wrong." But this is the way the US worked pre-9/11. In those days, the government couldn't listen to your phone calls or read your mail or your e-mail unless they had evidence enough to get a warrant. Now they can do all that because you are a suspect (everyone is, remember).

Tiberius the not particularly bright thinks he isn't doing anything wrong but he doesn't know what the people who are listening to his phone calls or reading his mail or e-mail or seeing what books he has checked out of the library or what websites he is visiting are looking for. And if he uses the wrong word over the phone, or checks the wrong book out of the library or goes to the wrong website (perhaps innocently following a tinyurl), he may suddenly find himself in the center of an investigation or at least on a watch list. And when they come to get him, all he can say is "I'm not doing anything wrong", but he can't prove it.

This is why the American criminal justice system was set up the way it was. A person doesn't (or shouldn't) have to prove that he hasn't done anything wrong. The government is (or should be) required to present evidence to prove that he has been doing something wrong. But he doesn't even know what they might think he's been doing wrong because they don't have to show him the evidence they think they have against him. Suddenly Tiberius the not particularly bright is a terrorist suspect (and being a terrorist suspect is as good as being a terrorist for purposes of the Patriot Act) because the government has "unrebutted" allegations against him. All those constitutional guarantees about being secure in his person and possessions, and about being able to confront the evidence against him, and about not being held without being charged with a crime, and about not being deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, et cetera, are as nought because they belong to a pre-9/11 America.

Poor Tiberius the not particularly bright thinks that not doing anything wrong will protect him from the government when what protects him from the government is the limitations on government written into the Constitution of the United States. Tiberius the not particularly bright believes that his rights haven't been violated, but he is not bright enough to realize that if one person's rights are violated, his rights are violated. What can happen to one person can happen to anyone else.