Posted on 06/09/2013 6:34:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
Scary. Unacceptable. This is not America. Those are some of the comments that I have heard about the revelations regarding government snooping on our cell phones. The statement that one man made that something is wrong with you if you don’t think something is askew here -- that would be about right.
If you are not upset about this situation then you are clueless. There is a dangerous extension of government that no true American could possibly endorse or accept. Our government has no right to randomly rummage through our cell phone or email records. If you think that the government has that right then 1) you missed your American government class when they went over the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Here is a reminder of what it says: “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.” Do you see where it says shall not be violated? That is not may or might – it is shall not be violated. 2) You deserve to live under a totalitarian government. Please just don’t drag us down with your paranoia.
Someone may say if you have nothing to hide you should not have anything to worry about. Someone may say that the prices we are paying are worth the safety we are deriving. If you really don’t understand why you are wrong, then I have a nice Gulag for you. If you don’t get it, you should move to Turkey and live with an elected government that has gradually become more and more dictatorial.
This is not just an attack on a Democrat-run government. Mike Rogers, Republican Congressman from Michigan and Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, immediately defended the program based on the fact that a potential terrorist event was thwarted. Rogers is someone who we want in government. He is a grownup. But he is just dead wrong on this. Should we allow the government to invade the privacy of our phone conservations and emails on Mr. Rogers’ good word that they will be handled judiciously? I think not.
After watching what the government has done to our press (AP and James Rosen), do you really trust these people? Our Attorney General lied regarding knowing about a warrant and then parsed his words about what he was saying. Our Attorney General stated in a warrant that James Rosen, a well-known and top-notch reporter for Fox News, was a flight risk. He managed to get a judge to sign off on this, even though he was the third judge they had to ask. If our Attorney General can pull off these types of shenanigans and have a federal judge sign off, then what are the rest of us average Joes and Janes exposed to?
We have a tax collection agency (IRS) running amok. They were milling around in people’s lives with unbridled power. They are now going to tell us whether we own the proper health insurance. How do we know the people with a similar mentality are not running the NSA or this PRISM program? Trust us; we are here to protect you. We have seen this before.
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, recently went in front of Congress and lied about the existence of these programs. He just issued a statement saying the collection of communications "cannot be used to intentionally target any U.S. citizen, any other U.S. person, or anyone located within the United States." What does he mean by not intentionally targeting? I don’t trust him and you should not either.
Congressman James Sennenbrenner, the author of the Patriot Act, states this is not what he wrote. So in less than a decade we have gone from constitutional protection to invasion of our privacy with a shredding of our 4th Amendment rights.
Folks, you either get it or you will lose it. My God, even Al Gore gets it. This is unacceptable. You have heard it a hundred times before “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” This isnot a Democratic or a Republican issue. This is a basic American issue. I choose not to sacrifice my liberty. Join me in demanding a stop to this further erosion of our basic God-given rights.
So we finely found out what it takes to wake up the sheeple.
Wait till they find out what google and the such collect from them on their phones as well.
They are asking us to trust the government when the government clearly doesn’t trust the people.
This spying without warrants has been reported on (lightly, I might add) for a few years now. Why is it the MSM is just now ticked about it and reporting it?? And Congress acts as if it is surprised?? Please!! As usual, the MSM fails the people. What else is new??
Our entire country has been overrun with traitors. I want to start seeing jail sentences for violations of the Constitution and for oaths that were taking to protect it.
taking=taken
I say track the Obama phone H0lders tightly.
Clearly, they are not on OUR side. Lines are being drawn.
Well, we had no report of abuse regarding illegal IRS Tea Party targeting until recently.
And the immediate response of this Administration once the IRS scandal broke was to stonewall the release of the truth with a planted question and a ludicrous claim that it was all the fault of four rogue low-level staffers.
The 800 pound gorilla sitting in on this debate is that the Obama Admin cannot be trusted with the survellience powers it inherted - let alone be trusted with its vast expansion of such. This is why they have been working so hard to convince the world that conservatives are potential terrorists. Because these tools are designated to be used against such.
Think of all the licenses, permits, etc. etc. an American must get simply to build a house and start a business. The Founders would be horrified that we have allowed this destruction of liberty. This has not been a free country for the past five decades, but the federal government may finally have over-reached and even the most dense among the populace are waking up.
And you can be damn sure they have your emails and text messages word for word.
What's made NSA scary is knowing the government is willing to target American citizens based on what political party they belong to...
All this makes me question the official ‘safety’ of cell phone devices.
Would the PTB’s really want to alert us to any safety issues with these devices if they’re using them to electronically stalk us?
I wonder if those will come back in style now. We had one recently and thought it was cute, but just stopped working and I have no idea why. Might be that the technology just doesn’t match up?
Ho hum, the left has wanted to keep records of all gun transactions, namely, gun registration. (Keeping records of when the Second Amendment was invoked.) What’s the big deal about keeping records of all communications transactions? (Keeping records of every time the First Amendment is invoked.)
This is ObowelMovements aMeriKa. If you don’t want him listening in then you need to go get an Obama Phone. They do not listen in on their phones. Now you know why they like Obama’s phones.
Sales of ‘burner’ phones will skyrocket.
Holder couldn’t tell Senator Kirk last week that the Senates phones were not bugged. The DOJ is review any enemy’s phone and date communication. Obama has a big problem. He needs to be impeached.
Where the people fear the government there is tyranny; where the government fears the people there is liberty.
They (government) obviously fear us; why don’t I feel as free as I used to?
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