Restore The 4th Activists Convince Rep. Meeks To Delay Flight To Discuss His Vote To Keep NSA Surveillance
from the having-an-impact dept
This is fairly impressive. Some members of the "Restore the 4th" effort who organized the widespread protests on July 4th against NSA surveillance decided to hold something of a sit-in protest at the office of Rep. Gregory Meeks in New York, since he voted against the Amash amendment. Protests like that happen every so often, but what almost never happens is for elected officials to delay their flight and spend some time actually debating with the protesters. But that's exactly what happened, as you can see in the video below:Either way, just the fact that Meeks would meet with protesters is fairly incredible, and the fact that he'd delay his flight to do so is even more unheard of. It basically doesn't happen. Doing so makes it pretty clear that the public outcry against this surveillance is really having an impact.
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Filed Under: 4th amendment, amash amendment, ed snowden, gregory meeks, nsa, nsa surveillance, restore the 4th
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This oath is unambiguous and to the point. It flat out says, first, protect the constitution. Yet, they've found so many ways to twist words of the english language or to outright ignore them completely. Secret laws, secret interpretations of those secret laws, secret courts, secret interpretations of the constitution, attempts to redefine words in the english language.
This is unambiguous.
“I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
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That OTHER oath
Oh, yeah, that oath's top secret.
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However it's worrying that he doesn't understand what he made an oath for. It may be an innocent mistake. Or not.
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That said, I sincerely hope Meeks has spent the last few weeks researching exactly what his job entails, as well as the issues at hand, because his knowledge of them as of July 4th was abysmal.
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avoiding answerable questions ought to be illegal
Also, dodging answering if he thought a specific warrant, known to the public, was Constitutional or not should also be illegal.
Actually, dodging any questions from a Representatives' (both House & Senate) voters, that can legally be answered (&, in this case, opinions are not Classified), should result in forfeiture of Office & an immediate election that he's barred from participating in.
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What about the rest of the galaxy?
But either way, as a foreigner your government can still fuck with me as they please. I'd also like some rights, and I don't generally want to bomb you all.
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I'm sure the Founding Fathers specifically worded the Oath of Office to say Constitution. In order to prevent politicians from twisting words around to mean anything besides 'Constitution'.
I find Gregory Meeks' incorrect interpretation of what his oath of office means, to equal treason against the Constitution, and the American People that the Constitution protects.
I'll choose the Constitution's protections over a Politician's protection, EVERY SINGLE TIME!
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