Posted on 07/23/2013 4:17:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.S. government’s growing surveillance of Americans has transformed the nation into an “electronic concentration camp,” top civil-liberties attorney John W. Whitehead says.
“It’s moving so rapidly you have to feel creepy because you're being watched. Everybody has a file if you do anything electronically,” Whitehead, author the new book “A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State,” told Newsmax TV. …
Whitehead—who founded the Rutherford Institute in Virginia, which helps promote civil liberties and human rights—has been researching the growth of the National Security Agency since the 1980s.
The agency has been under fire for its collection of phone and email records—secret programs that were leaked to the press by one of its former contractors, Edward Snowden. …
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Anonymity is critical to liberty, and it is being sold to the highest bidder.
All in the name of the greater good. The first principle of the greater good being the Government, since they have been allowed to become the source and arbiter of justice and equality.
Second, any efforts to oppose the tyranny of the first principle will be crushed, for the greater good.
We are so screwed.
Most libertarians would agree.
Unfortunately, a lot of "conservatives" like it.
We could cripple their capabilities, lawfully, by taxing their tyrannical system with lawful requests.
Let’s freep the NSA.
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I think your idea is fantastic.
Have you suggested this here on FR or any other websites?
The only reason I ask is to get an idea of what traction your idea may have achieved.
There was that defense attorney that is trying something similar in Florida.
I think you, or someone could actually create a business by automatically generating FOIA requests on a regular basis for a small fee.
http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/foia/submit_foia_request/foia_request_form.shtml
The NSA has an web page for FOIA submissions - linked above.
It is really easy.
I came up with this idea in the last couple of days and have only posted it on FR. There have been a few positive responses, but, so far, not many.
I know many leftists who would join in too. Lots of concerned and afraid people out there who want freedom back.
It is AN issue and a huge one along with confiscatory taxes, over regulation and just too many damn laws.
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