Posted on 08/09/2013 9:48:59 AM PDT by don-o
Edited on 08/09/2013 10:03:10 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
I thought there was another source which indicated they were using 3 degrees of separation.
“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”
Euripides
So then the reality is the law allows for warrant-less searches of US Citizens... chirping from the left...wonder why.
It is therefore entirely plausible that "everyone in the country" is within 3 or 4 degrees and that such was a very veiled admission to spying on everyone domestically.
-PJ
For the 4th Amendment to be functioning in the Republic , you need a system of checks and balances.
The Congress is effite and ineffective , and not holding to their Constitutional oath ,
The Judiciary is slow and deliberate , and almost useless within the existing delays and time constraints
The Executive branch is in Dictatorial like over-reach and micro-management in terms of control
and is backed by an equally over-reaching "Dept. of JUST-US" which is involved in delay , deny , obfiscate , deny , delay, etc..
One article I read said it was 4.7 but I think it depends on the study and interpretation.
Ceiling of 4.7 would be 5; I'm probably just paraphrasing that study (I skimmed the one linked to that story).
Agreed!
Unless the “loophole” is the officially declared state of emergency that the USA has been under since @1935. These are extended at least yearly by executive order, and are published in the federal register.
I have never seen an answer to what the government thinks it can do, because there is a declared state of emergency (that it could not otherwise.)
Nevertheless, the NSA is monitoring every American (except those in mosques) and providing the data to other federal agencies to include IRS, DEA, DHS, FBI and probably anyone else who asks for it.
I’m sure whatever evidence they turn up with a warrant will be tossed out at the arraignment.
Ooops! Sorry, Barry.
Eddie can drip faster than you can spin.
So please grade me on my scenario, Rev!
Abdul the Terrorist calls the bank to check up on that deposit from the Saudi Wahhabi Oil Sheik Benevolent Fund (The same fund that gives Obama money to oppose the Keystone pipeline and pays John McCain to advocate war with Syria)), and so that bank clerk he talked to is the 1st degree of separation. Later that day a pizza store owner calls into that bank and our newly made person-of-interest clerk answers questions about his checking account, that’s the degree of separation number 2. That evening you call in a take-out pizza. Now you’re the 3rd degree of separation. So it’s ok to spy on you without a warrant, right?
Seriously, they’ve thrown the Constitution we took a mortal oath to right into the garbage.
“There. That’s how they’ll justify ‘hops’.”
The fun fact is: Everybody on the planet knows anybody else on the plant with an average of only 6 “hops”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
It’s because the voting public is asleep at the switch and too low information thanks to the democrats and their allies the media. including the entertainment media.
Recent research has the number at 4.7 :(
“Loophole” has 2 definitons:
#1 a lawful activity liberals wish to outlaw.
#2 an illegal activity conducted by liberals under the guise of legality, excused by the deliberate misreading of a vaguely written law.
What does a totalitarian like Obama care for the Constitution? It’s not there is anyone with enough guts to try to stop him.
If we wish to be exempt from monitoring why don’t we just make toilet-paper turbans and babble in fake Arabic, then declare everybody’s garage a “mosque?”
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