Posted on 11/02/2013 11:03:35 AM PDT by jazusamo
America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi! |
With government, you get what you settle for. If you do not want surveillance stand up and holler “NO”
If you think Benghazi silence is a conspiracy stand up and demand your congress-pig investigate.
If you think obama has committed high crimes aginst the people / Constitution citizenship demands you stand up and tell your elected representatives you want Him impeached and removed. UNLESS YOU DEMAND OF THE POLITICIANS WHAT YOU WANT, THEY WILL DO NOTHING EXCEPT CONTINUE TO IGNORE WHAT SHOULD BE DONE AND ACCEPT MONEY FROM CORRUPT CONTRIBUTORS.
The snooping was going on long before the USA Patriot Act. The government has been caught before, and Congress makes a big fuss and passes some laws that appear to curtail the power of the government to snoop. FISA, for example, was passed in 1977 as a reaction to the Church Committee report, and COINTELPRO.
Heck, SCOTUS, the first time it handled a phone call case, held that phone calls are OUTSIDE of 4th amendment privacy. Congress passed a statute to make snooping on phones a crime, and since then, the Courts have sort of found a right to privacy in phone calls.
The disincentives to snooping without a warrant are hollow. There is no legal penalty to the government (well, there is "on paper," but not in fact, as long as the government asserts "state secret"), leaving only the risk of negative public reaction if/when a snooping incident is disclosed.
And the cycle repeats. Negative public reaction is met with hollow outrage from Congress and a promise to not snoop anymore. It's all a show. You can bet the government snoops "as much as it can" (which is a physical/practical limitation, not a legal one). The government does not trust the public. Simple as pie.
It’s nice to see him finally get some brains and realize the republicans are as complicit as the democrats are.
Ollie is right.
This fiasco is the fault of Congress.
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