A bipartisan group of 26 senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to detail the scope and limits of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities in a letter released Friday.
The NSA’s surveillance program has come under intense scrutiny following a leak revealing the agency harvested the phone metadata of millions of American citizens.
The senators noted that the federal government’s authority under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is broad and rife with potential for abuse. Among the senators’ concerns was whether the NSA’s bulk data harvesting program could be used to construct a gun registry or violate other privacy laws.
Potential to construct gun database, senators say | Washington Free Beacon
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When this was up for vote, the only republican I saw complaining about it was Ron Paul. Same with PATRIOT 2, Military Commissions and now the NDAA
Bush like Obama fail, but IMO Reagan said it best –
And all he did was encourage the greedy and shortsighted ones (like Charlie Wilson of Afghanistan fame, and the stock trader who simply ran off with all my money and others’, back in 1987).
I appreciate the anger and I share it, but I’m curious about something. Exactly who was unaware, prior to the Snowden affair, that their rights had been trampled on by the first PATRIOT Act? How is that fact news?
Speaking for myself, the moment I understood that the bill was drafted long before 9/11, and pulled out of storage within 48 hours of 9/11 to be introduced on the floor of Congress, it was very obvious without even reading it that the bill contained some things that would be very unpopular and anti-liberty.
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It took a hard-headed realist to see it, and you must know by now (Obama was RE-elected, for crying out loud) how rare we are. What should be emphasized, in my opinion, is just how many (including our congressional representatives) STILL are unaware, consciously.
Not 1984 but 2018
Trunews June 26, 2013 – Godfrey Bloom
2018
European Parliament adopts banking reform package intended to apply as per 1 January 2018.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9d667e18-debb-11e2-b990-00144feab7de.html#axzz2XYQBJ4dA
The monster can only fly with two wings.
What you are really suggesting, are you not, is that it really only has one “wing”, and that one “wing” is all it needs to stay airborne.
Which is more or less what I say on many occasions, though in different ways.
Now how about this: the monster needs its wing clipped. And we are the feathers.
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It should not be able to fly. Something like this.
It would appear you don’t agree that we are the feathers. That’s unfortunate, since it would mean you have fallen for one of the enemy’s traps.
You will be sorely disappointed unless you learn this lesson.
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I agree. And we all must be sorely disappointed at some point in our lives (hopefully when still young) in order to learn it. But it requires self-perception simply to be aware when you should be so disappointed–most today are just party hacks, feathers glued in place.
Just planting a seed. Think of it as famine mitigation.
Or, think of it as the foreword of a how-to book.
“How Not to Have to Pass the Bill In Order to Find Out What’s In it! 🙂
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