Posted on 06/12/2013 10:50:08 AM PDT by george76
Monitoring hundreds of millions of phone records is an extraordinary invasion of privacy.
When Americans expressed outrage last week over the seizure and surveillance of Verizon's client data by the National Security Agency, President Obama responded: "In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother . . . but when you actually look at the details, I think we've struck the right balance."
How many records did the NSA seize from Verizon? Hundreds of millions. We are now learning about more potential mass data collections by the government from other communications and online companies. These are the "details," and few Americans consider this approach "balanced," though many rightly consider it Orwellian.
These activities violate the Fourth Amendment, which says warrants must be specific"particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." And what is the government doing with these records? The president assures us that the government is simply monitoring the origin and length of phone calls, not eavesdropping on their contents. Is this administration seriously asking us to trust the same government that admittedly targets political dissidents through the Internal Revenue Service and journalists through the Justice Department?
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The administration has responded to the public uproar by simply claiming that it is allowed to have unlimited access to all Americans' private information. This response is a clear indication that the president views our Constitutional "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" as null and void.
If this is the new normal in America, then Big Brother certainly is watching and it's not hyperbolic or extreme to say so. Nor is it unreasonable to fear which parts of the Constitution this government will next consider negotiable or negligible.
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God Bless you Grandchild and Son! Send the message!
I Want The Sunshine!
yes IRS know you are watching ... so what?
Shine?
Gone enough for you IRS?
Hey IRS what about those four illegals using my Son’s Social Security number?
Remember that call IRS from my Son’s CO?
Operator ... could you help me place this call.
There is something in my eyes ... call and them I’m planning to show!
Operator ... forget about the call and keep the dime.
would be claimed it wasn’t real.
message sent Son ... Hug the Grandchild for me, please!
Just wish it wasn’t real.
But I don’t like NSPAM.
sorry if I bored you FRiend.
Revelation 20:11-15
11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Indeed, because we know Obama lets also the ISI in Pakistan watch over us.
This is not just the NSA USA watching us, but we know that their attack on the Tparty and other patriots and favoring the muslim brotherhood staffing all the offices with gay communists and muslims is meant to benefit foreign intel services.
This is why this is a double game and that Obama and the leaker who works for the Chinese are one and the same, so to speak, in their messages.
Indeed, if we knew what God knew, there is no telling how we would react. It is insane how wicked clever and deceptive shrewd these people are.
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