Showing posts with label Patriot Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patriot Act. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2015

‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11

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  By John W. Whitehead September 08, 2015

Commentary

“Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
What began with the passage of the USA Patriot Act in October 2001 has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. Since then, we have been terrorized, traumatized, and acclimated to life in the American Surveillance State. The bogeyman’s names and faces change over time, but the end result remains the same: our unquestioning acquiescence to anything the government wants to do in exchange for the phantom promise of safety and security has transitioned us to life in a society where government agents routinely practice violence on the citizens while, in conjunction with the Corporate State, spying on the most intimate details of our personal lives. Ironically, the 14th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks occurs just days before the 228th anniversary of the ratification of our Constitution. Yet while there is much to mourn about the loss of our freedoms in the years since 9/11, there is virtually nothing to celebrate.


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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Judge Andrew Napolitano Defender of The Constitution No Matter Who Is President of the US

Judge Napolitano: Obama The Champion At Trying To Get Around The Constitution

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Published on Jan 22, 2013
 
"If you believe in his vision of a federal government that can right any wrong and regulate any behavior and make everybody equal, then you celebrated the speech yesterday. But if you believe that the Constitution not only constitutes, not only creates the government, it restrains the government, then you didn't like what you heard yesterday," said Napolitano, adding that Obama is "the champion at trying to get around the Constitution." ..........

Judge Napolitano: If Fourth Amendment Was Written for Anything, It Was to Prevent NSA Surveillance

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Published on Aug 12, 2013
 
http://xrepublic.tv JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: What the president said and what the president has done is as distressing as anything I have observed the government doing in my entire professional life. This president has orchestrated an end run around the constitution of gargantuan proportions. He approved it, he authorized it, he knows it's extend. He did it in secret and now he is denying that it exists. The federal government, in order to make their job of catching bad guys easier — they are determined to catch bad guys, God bless them for that — has decided to sweep up the private communications of everybody else, as well. If the constitution and the Fourth Amendment were written for anything, they were written to prevent exactly that.
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Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and The Patriot Act part 1 of 3

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Judge Andrew Napolitano gives a speech from the heart about freedom and from where our rights come. The Judge explains the hard core truth about the Constitution and why we must fight to regain and retain our freedoms. Courtesy of www.CampaignForLiberty.com. Edited by FreeTheNation.com Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, Tom Woods, Andrew Napolitano and Daniel Hannan are the new FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
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Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural Rights and PATRIOT ACT Part 2 of 3

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Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural rights Patriot Act - Part 3 of 3

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Friday, October 25, 2013

'Stop Watching Us': Snowden Reaches Out to Endorse DC Rally


'Stop Watching Us': Snowden Reaches Out to Endorse DC Rally

'Stop Watching Us' coalition rally, planned for Saturday, receives endorsement from NSA whistleblower

- Jon Queally, staff writer

'Stop Watching Us' coalition rally, planned for Saturday, receives endorsement from NSA whistleblowerAmid yet another round of explosive revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency and ahead of a large rally organized by a large coalition of social justice and privacy advocates planned for Saturday, whistleblower Edward Snowden urged his fellow U.S. citizens to speak out against NSA surveillance by telling Congress and the Obama administration: 'Stop Watching Us.'

In a rare public statement, released through the ACLU, Snowden said:
In the last four months, we've learned a lot about our government.
We've learned that the U.S. intelligence community secretly built a system of pervasive surveillance. Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA's hands. Our representatives in Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They're wrong.
Now it's time for the government to learn from us. On Saturday, the ACLU, EFF, and the rest of the StopWatching.Us coalition are going to D.C. Join us in sending the message: Stop Watching Us.
A large rally is planned for Washington, DC on Saturday with satellite events taking place in cities across the country.
The protests, which coincide with the 12th anniversary of the signing of the Patriot Act into law, are designed to bring together diverse groups from across the political spectrum to demand surveillance law reform.
"The NSA is spying on everyone's personal communications," says the coalition, and argues the massive agency is "operating without any meaningful oversight" from Congress, the courts, or the public at large.
The groups—which include the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, Public Citizen, Restore the Fourth, Free Press, Demand Progress and nearly a hundred others—released this video to promote the event:.........




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And updates and information on the day of action against NSA spying were being listed under #StopWatchingUs on Twitter:

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  3. Tomorrow, over 100 groups, companies, speakers descend on D.C. to tell the gov't: . See you there:



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