text: why are liberals afraid of wiretaps and other eavesdropping? why are libs always whining about domestic "spying?"  if you have nothing to hide, what is the problem? i am a 'conservative' and i am very, very concerned about the dangers of eavesdropping.  if you would take the time to study history you would know the answer to the 'dangers of eavesdropping'.  governments in the 20th century (many of them democracies!) murdered more than 100 million innocent men, women and children - their own citizens!  p.s. if you think it can't happen in the u.s., remember the clinton whitehouse was 'caught' illegally possessing about 900 fbi files - all of them on their political opponents!  and... the media ignored it (because they agreed with the clinton politics).    p.p.s.  the media and educated professionals are the first targets when a government 'goes bad'!  history.  history.  history.  the future is found in history!  learn from it or it repeats itself.  when that happens, millions of innocent people will die again.  good luck!