Privacy laws apply to individuals in private settings--I can't climb your fence, open your window, and stick a mic inside.

If you run out in the street and do something stupid, you have no claims to privacy because you're in public view. You don't get to have the guys taping you jailed to shut them up.

Likewise, public officials have no such claims to privacy when they're dealing with public funding (ie my paycheck). ACORN is a public entity committing public actions with public funding.

Having corrupt ACORN-backed Maryland politicians ignore their advising people on how to set up brothels for underage foreign prostitutes using federal money while threatening to imprison the people who exposed it is not the "law of the land" or "rule of law". It's the opposite--"rule of man" (or thug), where government is used selectively as a weapon to push your agenda while coercing those who dissent into silence.

It's the behavior of a banana republic.

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