Is it time for a Right to Privacy amendment?

I think the time is ripe for a Right to Privacy amendment to the Constitution. There is nothing in the Constitution that firmly establishes privacy rights. Of course it has been inferred primarily from the Forth, but that has been chipped away over the decades starting with the Drug War and finally completely destroyed by the War On Terror.

I believe a Right to Privacy Amendment should be a plank in the Democratic Party Platform.

What say ye DUers?

As the government of the United States has been replaced with extreme, right-wing, anti-democracy fascist slime who would turn over the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to prop up their POS president, the people shall retain their right to privacy.

It's a great wedge issue too, because it force the Republicans to "oppose privacy."

Because it would be such a great issue for our side, I predict it will never be proposed nor used in a campaign.

because back then privacy meant going to the bathroom. maybe the men who wrote the bill of rights must have known that in the future some president would shit on the bill of rights and claim it was ok...

alone if they will just pick up the flag and run with it. Privacy is a key issue right now in so many ways. Everything from reproductive choice, death with dignity, and bedroom legislation to domestic espionage, the Patriot Act and posse commitatus fall under its umbrella in some shape or form.

It's how we win the swing voters. It's how we solidify our base.

which means the Democrats will do exactly nothing with it. That's also clearly evidenced by the way this post sank like a rock; I guess out of all the people on DU, four of us think privacy is important enough to do something.

Pretty much the same response when I started ranting about electronic voting machines five or six years ago. :shrug:

At least in my three years of posting on DU it appears the following reasons are most common

1) because few agree or think it's important, as you have suggested
2) because most readers believe that the few people who have posted have said all that really needs to be said about it and they have nothing to add.
3) because it is a busy news day and threads that aren't about the latest revelations/hottest causes always sink like stones.
4) because the week before x-mas is always a bit slow around here.

I wouldn't take it personally. You and I can keep beating the privacy drum on DU and eventually it will be talked about as if it had never been thought of before. Then you and I can take our bows ;)