Earlier article here.
Posted on 08/20/2013 9:38:05 AM PDT by No One Special
Thank you BTTT.
bkmk
This is unbearably sad.
The dawning awareness, that we aren’t in Kansas any more Toto : |
This is a powerful reason to defund the NSA, prosecute the people who are letting it shit all over our liberties, and then impeach the President who is persecuting the one person who stood up to this tyranny.
You are essentially suggesting that the feds prosecute themselves for activities that it (the federal government) believes are legal and constitutional. Congress is going to wet itself trying to show the people how much it cares about privacy (but it only cares about its elite self), and there will as much "show" as Congress thinks is necessary to fool the public.
She already made herself a political target by mentioning scripture.
I continue to be amazed how a handfull of savages have frightened Americans into giving up everything to be “safe”
Never let a crisis go to waste.
A dirty nuke in a major city and we will all be running around naked, spreading our cheeks for inspection, and asking “May I have another, PLEASE...I’m Oh so scared.
If she's not willing to take a stand politically, she really has no grounds to complain.
Just encrypt your emails with PGP. How hard is that?
Earlier article here.
“You are essentially suggesting that the feds prosecute themselves for activities that it (the federal government) believes are legal and constitutional.”
No, I’m suggesting that our government no longer gives a damn about our Constitution and that it’s coming on time for the states to retake control of the Federal government and then try and execute those who have trampled on our rights so badly as to make King George III look like a libertarian.
“Just encrypt your emails with PGP. How hard is that?”
Do you really think PGP hasn’t been breached?
Well, you suggested defunding the NSA, that's not a state function, and impeaching the president, and that's not a state function either. Likewise, the prosecution (of those responsible) would be, I think, for federal constitutional violations, and that issue will ultimately land in a federal court.
My point was that the federal courts and Congress are skilled at lip service, and won't do anything to curtail the power and encroachment of the federal government. The federal government is all about (and I agree, it is unconstitutional) expansion of its own power.
When the states have stood up to the feds, for example Arizona on immigration, the feds won the battle - every . single . time.
I agree with you that a government, any government, is like a living being, a monster that wants to continually grow larger and more powerful at the expense of the governed. Checks and balances are supposed to stop government overreach, and when they don't there's no going back to what we've lost.
But at some point that big, bloated, over-reaching government has to collapse. When (not if) it does, things will become more local. Some areas will do okay, some not so much. I'm coming to think that the sooner the global and federal governments collapse, the better. At least now, there are still some people who have acquired survival skills. What's it going to be like in a few more generations, if there's no one left who knows how to survive?
How quaint. How precious.
What she (and you) obviously don't understand is that the "rule of law" has EVERYTHING to do with politics...because if you're being mugged, it does little good to wave a copy of the Constitution at the mugger.
We were given this Republic, and we've done a poor job of keeping it.
Bump
Normally I’d buy the ‘eventual collapse’ argument.
However, I propose that the recent oil and gas discoveries have taken our government off life support and extended the time until collapse almost indefinitely.
You think that public key cryptography has been broken? Why do you think that and what are you doing on the internet if you believe that to be true?
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