http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3422372&page=1

"Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras"

When the US Constitution was written, the authors knew all too well the forces they had to guard against. The self-evident freedoms of the people of the great experimental nation of America had to be protected from forces at every turn that would seek to restrict liberty and justice. In an era when some felt George Washington should be made a king, they knew this all too well, Americans had to be protected from giving up their liberty voluntarily, even eagerly.

The people's natural tendency is toward totalitarianism. Citizens would like nothing more that to live in a police state. They will fall all over themselves to give up any concept of justice and civil rights. The law, the courts', and the Constitution's challenge is the hold people back from bringing ruin to their society and ripping down everything the American Bill of Rights stands for.

People are stupid.