For years I’ve had a Verizon phone. Now it turns out President Obama’s regime grabbed all my phone data without a warrant, and without notifying me.

Am I one of those conservatives and libertarians the IRS has been hassling? Or because I’m another journalist it wants to hassle, as it has AP? No. Big Brother Barack just took everybody’s data:

“Barack Obama’s administration is collecting the telephone records of tens of millions of American customers of Verizon Communications, under a top secret court order.

“The order — signed by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court — compels Verizon to give the National Security Agency details of all telephone calls made by its customers within the US and from foreign locations into the US for three months from January 19 to April 25.”

So they have records of everybody I called in my work as a journalist. I write mostly about California. But I also write about the Obama regime and its attacks on our liberties, like this one.

The Fourth Amendment is clear:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

No warrant was issued by Big Brother Barack. I have committed no crime. I’m not even suspected of committing a crime (unless relentlessly criticizing government now is a crime in Americka). Yet the Obama regime perpetrated an “unreasonable” search and seizure of my “papers and effects,” without any “probable cause” whatsoever, and certainly without a “Warrant” issued by a judge.

To be fair, if that’s possible, this whole illegal regime was set up by Republican President George W. Bush when he panicked after 9/11 and shredded the entire Bill of Rights with the unconstitutional USA PATRIOT Act, better called the USA TRAITORS’ Act because it betrays America’s sacred heritage of liberty; and with the Military Commissions Act.

When it came out, I read Obama’s 2006 book, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.” A former professor of constitutional law, he wrote about restoring the civil liberties lost in the Bush years.

In office, he has done the opposite, taking the violations of liberty up a notch.

In the wake of 9/11, President Bush and Congress micturated their collective pants and imposed the unconstitutional and misnamed “PATROT Act,” really the TRAITOR Act, to destroy our constitutional liberties. Yesterday some Republican congressmen, including newly elected Tea Party types, joined most Democrats in the House in voting against extending the TRAITOR Act another 10 months.

Californian Republicans voting against the TRAITOR Act were:

Dana Rohrabacher

John Campbell

Tom McClintock.

They should be applauded. They defended Americans’ precious freedoms, without which America is just a big East Germany.

And here’s the list of California House Republicans voting for for this Soviet tyranny over our once-free people. Shame on them:

Ed Royce

Gary Miller

Darryl Issa

Mary Bono Mack

Brian Bilbray

Jeff Denham

David Dreier

Elton Gallegly

Wally Herger

Jerry Lewis

Dan Lungern (natch, for the author of the repressive Lungren Law)

Kevin McCarthy

Howard P. “Buck” McKeon

Devin Nunes

Didn’t these Republicans get the message of the Tea Party revolt that Americans want less tyranny, not more? What will it take to wake them up, riots in the streets Cairo-style?

They can redeem themselves by, in the future, voting against renewing the TRAITOR Act and other tyrannies.

Americans need to rally to make sure the TRAITOR Act is deep-sixed and our liberties reclaimed.

Feb. 9, 2011