Just a guess, but when the MAFIA took over Wall Street with all the tax-free drug money they made in the previous half century, they did not consider that keeping the Constitution was really worth the effort it would take to constantly circumvent it while pretending publicly to uphold it.
So they got George Bush to suspend it right after 9/11 when he secretly declared war on anyone who gets in the way of their progress.
Now the Corporate Government; otherwise known as a Fascist Business Venture, only allows the constitution to be used in cases where it has no effect on Federal Operations.
In other words, the Constitution no longer applies unless the Fed wants it to apply, because its been secretly suspended for the duration of the secret war effort.
You wouldn't know this of course, because you are after all, the enemy. :)
"Combine the bill's wording with the administration's tacit approval of the NSA's exploit stockpile and you've got something that will generate millions of dollars worth of budget line items while doing very little to make anyone -- even the government itself -- any safer."
Hey, no probs! After all, you, the taxpayer, are good for it.
Besides, safer aint the plan.
Weaker, stupider, busier, drunker, sicker and suggestible, now that's the plan, cuz then the taxpayer aint just good for it, he won't even mind being buggered, if he even ever realizes he's footing the bill for his own destruction.
And with China considering foreclosing on their loan to finance the US war effort abroad, you'd damn well better be good for it cuz the fed is up to its ass in debts and is NOT considering spending less any tine soon.
The difference is merely from political to commercial.
Democracy VS fascism.
In the old days, the fed was not controlled by corporations.... as much. :)
Now days, its more important to "protect the product" and "maintain the image" than to worry about international or domestic stuff, unless there's some money to be made in it.
Wait till you see how the Fed is paying off the Chinese for financing the latest US commercial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. You're gonna love this secret.
Because they all did exactly what the government told them to do, even though it makes them look like assholes.
Hell they'll likely get promotions... or retirement mansions in Yosemite at least.
When you're an employee of the fed and following the instructions of the government, you cannot be charged with committing a crime for the government by the government.
For example, assassins who commit murder, or drone operator assassins who commit mass murder and terrorism - FOR the government - would never be charged with such crimes BY the government.
Now YOU on the other hand, if you're not a federal employee, can be charged with both a felony and with treason, simply for breathing air, should the government decide it doesn't like you, or the way you comb your hair.
This is the most common symptom of all fledgling police states. You see, the fed no longer works for you. Its now working against you, because its certain that pretty soon, you and everyone else will be working against it.
Its a sort of siege mentality. After all, they are sort of Occupying a conquered land.
Actually, if you were to look into the police hiring practices you would find that they specifically seek those who are less-than-bright and easily corrupted.
As the saying goes, one good apple can spoil the graft-income for all the bad apples in the bushel.
In any police state, the cops are indistinguishable from mobsters, muggers and murderers, because they are drawn from the very same strata of people.
Every police state, regardless of the political affiliation they claim, is a fascist operation. Fascism is a business model, not a political ideal. A Police State is simply a means of redistributing wealth from the many to the few.
Who else would work for such a system, save crooked assholes whose only concern is themselves and how much they can get?
Thank you very much Mike. I can almost see the wheels of Just-ICE turning, as they try and think up ways of turning this thing around.
It is literally up to the people now. After all they say you get the government you deserve. Aaron absolutely did not deserve this government. I'm pretty certain that very, very, few Americans do.
According to hundreds of accounts of retired cops from the 60s, 70s and 80s, the entire drug war was manufactured exactly this way. Since there was no drug problem, it simply had to be created from whole cloth.
Bust a crook for theft, mugging, assault, whatever, and add a drug charge (preferably for marijuana) to insure the news was filled with a constant and continuous flood of drug busts, and to get a bonus paid vacation day as reward.
Not a real crook!
No problem.
Just toss a joint on the floor and you can bust him and charge him with whatever comes to mind, and your bosses will praise you and promote you.
Like the war on terror, the war on drugs was and is nothing more than a criminal government finding ways and means to improve its own lot at the expense of everyone else.
Remember, government was once upon a time, just the biggest and richest gang in the hood.
The mob has been paying its "taxes" in the form of graft to individual federal employees for decades and these employees and their minions have absolutely no desire to see this cash cow die.
So its no surprise at all to see the minions out there, once again faking drug busts and planting evidence to get the news-worthy stories of faked rampant drug abuse back in the public's face now that the threats of decriminalization and legalization have raised their ugly heads in a serious effort to end the flow of illegal money to the mob and its federal employees.
Legalize drugs and you will wipe out the illegal drug trade and its billion dollar a year profits over night.
Instead, the fed supports the black market and organized crime, by maintaining the laws and insuring the black market has contraband to sell and that the prices remain high.
Basically just the dinosaur protecting its food supply.
"....and they all get fabulously wealthy scratching each others' backs."
...and you still haven't figured it out yet.
They ARE getting fabulously wealthy, and they just don't give a damn what you think because there aint a damn thing you can do about it.
Why on earth should they care if the impression of corruption is being sent out by these actions, when the public is absolutely powerless to do anything at all about it.
Go ahead. Make a suggestion as to what could be done by the public to stop such blatantly corrupt practices.
The laws say its 100% ok to bribe politicians with placement in the industry or commercial operations they do favors for while in office. The law even says its OK to pay them cash for favors. Its called lobbying.
Can the public change the laws?
Not a hope in hell as long as the Fed is simply the PR department of Big Business and Big Business belongs to the Mob.
"Because there seems to be a rule that, if you're to become FCC Commissioner, you can't take a solid stand, but instead have to take a weak middle ground position and pretend it's a strong stand."
Well, you're close.
But the truth is simpler than that.
Like the IG that ran the DHS agency, the head of the FCC must be someone that obeys the needs of the Fed and the Fed and its commercial bosses want the internet strangled and controlled - just another channel for commercials and propaganda.
So anyone who becomes the head of the FCC has to first prove to the Fed that they are willing to do what they are told to do and that they will not interfere in any way with the ongoing destruction of the Internet, or work against the federal pogrom of population control.
If you actually look hard enough, you will begin to notice that any federal agency that is charged with doing something FOR the people, is now and will in future - until they are no longer needed - be headed by people exactly like these crooked minions for hire in the FCC and DHS.
Yes Angela, there really is a New World Order and its already here and its been running the show since 9/11 did away with your constitutional protections.
the land of the ho ho ho he he he he he hee hee hee
"No one wants to be the guy (or girl) who truly outs the agency as a bloated wreck that does little to nothing in the way of keeping the Homeland secure."
This is going to be history's greatest joke one day.
Keeping the Homeland Secure from What?
From the 1000s of (currently imaginary) Terrorists the Fed is desperately trying to create by bombing poor third world nations into the stone age, that's what.
You know, the Terrorists that PNAC needed to fulfill its new Pearl Harbor scenario to start the New World Order.
When it is finally revealed that the War on Terrorism was a sham manufactured by commercial/financial interests to get rid of US citizens' constitutional protections, the world is going to laugh its ass off at the US citizens' expense.
Why is such an utterly incompetent asshole running the agency charged with protecting the US from Terrorists?
Because there are no terrorists yet and such assholes are needed to keep the sham looking legal. Honest people would have blown the whistle on the agency immediately.
Why is the asshole being promoted to another Federal agency after years of criminal activity in the DHS office??
Because he has fully accomplished what he was hired to do and has prevented an honest IG (if such a thing is still possible) from taking over the office and realizing the whole thing is a sham.
So he is being promoted for doing his job perfectly.
The little infractions like theft and coercion, are to expected when you hire from the ranks of career criminals of course and can be overlooked. Besides, he'll do just fine in his new job, because its just more of the same anyway.
Prediction: Next head of this office will be someone nearly identical to the asshole who just resigned, allowing a few more years of maintaining the farce that DHS is an important and necessary agency and that without the DHS the USA would be overrun by Hollywood Terrorists.
For such a position, you have to hire someone willing to lie for money and power - someone exactly like Charles K. Edwards.
The Anti-Constitution of The United States of Bank America
"But it's the underlying assertion that such technology would be deployed mostly by criminals that's the most troubling."
Well unlike all you folks in the Adversary Class - US citizens - the Fed and its agencies work under the secret legal presumption of "Guilty Until Proven Not Guilty This Time".
Its hardly their fault that you citizen-adversaries still believe in the old pre-9/11 legal framework of Innocent till proven guilty, just because you don't have access to the post-9/11 secret legal decisions made by the Fed after the Constitution was abolished by the Bush Dynasty.
You could, after all, easily become a Federal Employee and learn all about the new Anti-Constitutional laws now being used by the Fed against citizens of the USA, but no, you didn't do that, did you. So its your own fault. So stop whining already, and apply for a federal Government job.
After all, you do want to be on the winning side don't you.
For instance, you would learn almost immediately, that under the new secret Federal Anti-Constitution Laws, there is no such classification as "Innocent".
From what I've seen of this administration, it is highly likely they will simply create a new set of laws that would prevent the challange of the Espionage Act during a trial of Snowden - thus bullet-proofing the Act for future use as well.
When the Republicans' best Democratic Prez gets cornered by reality, his corporate bosses just hand him a set of new rules to play by, and he seldom ever tells the public about these new rules till long after the dirty deed is done, if ever.... unless somebody on the inside blows the whistle...
I think Wall Street has had ample time to wrangle up a passle of new secret legislations that'll let the Prez use the Act safely and put State's Enemy No.1 away forever.... or hang him publicly from the yard arm as an example to all.
And ye be truly blind, or bought, if ye think there is an actual divide between the wealthy that form the Republican Party and the wealthy that form the Democratic Party.
Their goals are identical in every way now - only their methods differ normally, but not so much anymore.
They aint just drinking and wenching buddies no more.
Am I misreading this whole thing, or doesn't the virus in question leak data? If it leaks data and your brand spanking new 32 character Password is data, then what's to stop your new password from being leaked into the same hands that have been milking this cow for 2 years???
I can't help but get this feeling that the "instruction" to create a new password, is nothing more than an attempt to make the public "feel" secure in a totally insecure situation and make those responsible for the situation appear to be "on top of the problem".
Tell me my new password is somehow safe from the HeartBleed Virus.
When bad guys make laws, only bad guys get served by law.
"The fact that it doesn't solve any problems the public are dealing with is meaningless. It solves a problem that the politicians are dealing with: how to be able to say they've "done something" to "protect the children" while at the same time building up the tools and powers of the government to stifle any speech they don't like. To those folks, the system is working perfectly."
By the Gawds!!! Is it possible??
Could the dream finally be coming to an end?? Are people actually starting to wake up?
If I didn't know better, I'd think that the thin veneer of bullshit being held up in front of the "system", is starting to finally dry up and blow away in the winds of change - leaving bear the ugly truths that nobody wants to see and that everybody has avoided looking at for thirty plus years.
Nah. I must be imagining it.
Otherwise, the "system" would have started a war in order to re-educate the slowly-waking public back to sleep...
... then again, there is a Prezidenshul (S)Election campaign just around the corner.
I understand they're going to run the three stooges against Obama this time.
Republicans know they'll never find a better Democrat than Obama to do their dirty work and keep their own party looking clean.
When laws are written by criminals, only criminals are served by law.
I would suggest that the decision to allow spying on foreigners was done specifically so that the NSA could begin the process of internal policy shifting with the full intent of eventually spying on everyone.
In order that they might eventually spy on the USA, as they are doing today, they had to first come up with a publicly-accepted legal target for the process - foreigners.
Americans have always had a somewhat xenophobic attitude about people from other lands so it was easy to slide this kind of exception past anyone who was paying attention. As it was also the policy process of a top secret federal agency, hardly anyone was informed of the plan anyway.
Once the surveillance of foreigners was made legal, the internal policy expanded to include Americans who were linked to foreigners. This was also legally acceptable to those who were in charge of over-seeing the policy of the NSA.
Then, once that was accepted legally, it became policy to include Americans who had a connection to anyone who was linked to any foreigner. The change was minimal and easily accepted by those who today might be labelled official NSA cheerleaders, rather than overseers.
Then once they got away with that legal sleight of hand, internal policy shifted again to include Americans who had any connection to anyone who had any connection to anyone who was linked to any foreigner.
By this point, almost every american would be caught in the net and it would still be legal, because the people approving these changes did not "think" beyond what they were told and the NSA continuously lied to them about its actual operation in order to gain their legal approval. In most cases, the cheerleaders would have preferred to be lied to anyway, so they would not have to "think".
Exactly as it stands today.
Its pretty much the same as what a salesman calls "getting a foot in the door". And its pretty much the same process as is used by corporate paid legislators to weaken laws against corporate profiteering, monopolies, racketeering, etc., by creating poorly written laws purportedly to protect children, women, the environment, desert turtles, etc., then re-interpreting those laws once they're on the books to fulfill their true purpose.
It should be considered as criminal activity, but sadly, its accepted as standard operational procedures now that corporate bribery - lobbying - is also legally accepted.
America needs a total rewrite of its laws, including the elimination of about 80% of what is currently on the books.
Until then, you might as well get used to criminals making laws, and stop all your bitching, because nobody at the top is listening.
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Re:
So they got George Bush to suspend it right after 9/11 when he secretly declared war on anyone who gets in the way of their progress.
Now the Corporate Government; otherwise known as a Fascist Business Venture, only allows the constitution to be used in cases where it has no effect on Federal Operations.
In other words, the Constitution no longer applies unless the Fed wants it to apply, because its been secretly suspended for the duration of the secret war effort.
You wouldn't know this of course, because you are after all, the enemy. :)
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Re:
No consequences means no reason to change and in fact offers a very clear rationale for expansion and escalation.
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Cash Cows not Sheep
Hey, no probs!
After all, you, the taxpayer, are good for it.
Besides, safer aint the plan.
Weaker, stupider, busier, drunker, sicker and suggestible, now that's the plan, cuz then the taxpayer aint just good for it, he won't even mind being buggered, if he even ever realizes he's footing the bill for his own destruction.
And with China considering foreclosing on their loan to finance the US war effort abroad, you'd damn well better be good for it cuz the fed is up to its ass in debts and is NOT considering spending less any tine soon.
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Re:
All they need is your tax dollars, thank you very much.
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Re:
Democracy VS fascism.
In the old days, the fed was not controlled by corporations.... as much. :)
Now days, its more important to "protect the product" and "maintain the image" than to worry about international or domestic stuff, unless there's some money to be made in it.
Wait till you see how the Fed is paying off the Chinese for financing the latest US commercial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. You're gonna love this secret.
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Re: how is Clapper not a felon and traitor?
Hell they'll likely get promotions... or retirement mansions in Yosemite at least.
When you're an employee of the fed and following the instructions of the government, you cannot be charged with committing a crime for the government by the government.
For example, assassins who commit murder, or drone operator assassins who commit mass murder and terrorism - FOR the government - would never be charged with such crimes BY the government.
Now YOU on the other hand, if you're not a federal employee, can be charged with both a felony and with treason, simply for breathing air, should the government decide it doesn't like you, or the way you comb your hair.
This is the most common symptom of all fledgling police states. You see, the fed no longer works for you. Its now working against you, because its certain that pretty soon, you and everyone else will be working against it.
Its a sort of siege mentality. After all, they are sort of Occupying a conquered land.
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Its a good paying job and they want to keep it
They are protecting the jobs of Feinstein And Chambliss.
In a corporate structure you can easily be replaced, as minions below simply move on up.
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Re:
Its what makes the world go round.
Those who state its all about power are correct, but money is the power they are talking about.
There is no power without money.
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Re: Dumb and dumber
As the saying goes, one good apple can spoil the graft-income for all the bad apples in the bushel.
In any police state, the cops are indistinguishable from mobsters, muggers and murderers, because they are drawn from the very same strata of people.
Every police state, regardless of the political affiliation they claim, is a fascist operation. Fascism is a business model, not a political ideal. A Police State is simply a means of redistributing wealth from the many to the few.
Who else would work for such a system, save crooked assholes whose only concern is themselves and how much they can get?
We have no shortage of those hanging about.
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Re: replaced the video
I can almost see the wheels of Just-ICE turning, as they try and think up ways of turning this thing around.
It is literally up to the people now.
After all they say you get the government you deserve.
Aaron absolutely did not deserve this government.
I'm pretty certain that very, very, few Americans do.
Viva la Evolution!!
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The War on Stupidity is what is needed.
According to hundreds of accounts of retired cops from the 60s, 70s and 80s, the entire drug war was manufactured exactly this way. Since there was no drug problem, it simply had to be created from whole cloth.
Bust a crook for theft, mugging, assault, whatever, and add a drug charge (preferably for marijuana) to insure the news was filled with a constant and continuous flood of drug busts, and to get a bonus paid vacation day as reward.
Not a real crook!
No problem.
Just toss a joint on the floor and you can bust him and charge him with whatever comes to mind, and your bosses will praise you and promote you.
Like the war on terror, the war on drugs was and is nothing more than a criminal government finding ways and means to improve its own lot at the expense of everyone else.
Remember, government was once upon a time, just the biggest and richest gang in the hood.
The mob has been paying its "taxes" in the form of graft to individual federal employees for decades and these employees and their minions have absolutely no desire to see this cash cow die.
So its no surprise at all to see the minions out there, once again faking drug busts and planting evidence to get the news-worthy stories of faked rampant drug abuse back in the public's face now that the threats of decriminalization and legalization have raised their ugly heads in a serious effort to end the flow of illegal money to the mob and its federal employees.
Legalize drugs and you will wipe out the illegal drug trade and its billion dollar a year profits over night.
Instead, the fed supports the black market and organized crime, by maintaining the laws and insuring the black market has contraband to sell and that the prices remain high.
Basically just the dinosaur protecting its food supply.
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The United States of Corruption
Amazing how fast the government can act when it needs to protect its own ass.
Another sad day for America.
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Can the public change the laws?
...and you still haven't figured it out yet.
They ARE getting fabulously wealthy, and they just don't give a damn what you think because there aint a damn thing you can do about it.
Why on earth should they care if the impression of corruption is being sent out by these actions, when the public is absolutely powerless to do anything at all about it.
Go ahead. Make a suggestion as to what could be done by the public to stop such blatantly corrupt practices.
The laws say its 100% ok to bribe politicians with placement in the industry or commercial operations they do favors for while in office. The law even says its OK to pay them cash for favors. Its called lobbying.
Can the public change the laws?
Not a hope in hell as long as the Fed is simply the PR department of Big Business and Big Business belongs to the Mob.
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For the People - Not
Well, you're close.
But the truth is simpler than that.
Like the IG that ran the DHS agency, the head of the FCC must be someone that obeys the needs of the Fed and the Fed and its commercial bosses want the internet strangled and controlled - just another channel for commercials and propaganda.
So anyone who becomes the head of the FCC has to first prove to the Fed that they are willing to do what they are told to do and that they will not interfere in any way with the ongoing destruction of the Internet, or work against the federal pogrom of population control.
If you actually look hard enough, you will begin to notice that any federal agency that is charged with doing something FOR the people, is now and will in future - until they are no longer needed - be headed by people exactly like these crooked minions for hire in the FCC and DHS.
Yes Angela, there really is a New World Order and its already here and its been running the show since 9/11 did away with your constitutional protections.
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the land of the ho ho ho he he he he he hee hee hee
This is going to be history's greatest joke one day.
Keeping the Homeland Secure from What?
From the 1000s of (currently imaginary) Terrorists the Fed is desperately trying to create by bombing poor third world nations into the stone age, that's what.
You know, the Terrorists that PNAC needed to fulfill its new Pearl Harbor scenario to start the New World Order.
When it is finally revealed that the War on Terrorism was a sham manufactured by commercial/financial interests to get rid of US citizens' constitutional protections, the world is going to laugh its ass off at the US citizens' expense.
Why is such an utterly incompetent asshole running the agency charged with protecting the US from Terrorists?
Because there are no terrorists yet and such assholes are needed to keep the sham looking legal. Honest people would have blown the whistle on the agency immediately.
Why is the asshole being promoted to another Federal agency after years of criminal activity in the DHS office??
Because he has fully accomplished what he was hired to do and has prevented an honest IG (if such a thing is still possible) from taking over the office and realizing the whole thing is a sham.
So he is being promoted for doing his job perfectly.
The little infractions like theft and coercion, are to expected when you hire from the ranks of career criminals of course and can be overlooked. Besides, he'll do just fine in his new job, because its just more of the same anyway.
Prediction: Next head of this office will be someone nearly identical to the asshole who just resigned, allowing a few more years of maintaining the farce that DHS is an important and necessary agency and that without the DHS the USA would be overrun by Hollywood Terrorists.
For such a position, you have to hire someone willing to lie for money and power - someone exactly like Charles K. Edwards.
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The Anti-Constitution of The United States of Bank America
Well unlike all you folks in the Adversary Class - US citizens - the Fed and its agencies work under the secret legal presumption of "Guilty Until Proven Not Guilty This Time".
Its hardly their fault that you citizen-adversaries still believe in the old pre-9/11 legal framework of Innocent till proven guilty, just because you don't have access to the post-9/11 secret legal decisions made by the Fed after the Constitution was abolished by the Bush Dynasty.
You could, after all, easily become a Federal Employee and learn all about the new Anti-Constitutional laws now being used by the Fed against citizens of the USA, but no, you didn't do that, did you. So its your own fault. So stop whining already, and apply for a federal Government job.
After all, you do want to be on the winning side don't you.
For instance, you would learn almost immediately, that under the new secret Federal Anti-Constitution Laws, there is no such classification as "Innocent".
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On Testing the Espionage Act
When the Republicans' best Democratic Prez gets cornered by reality, his corporate bosses just hand him a set of new rules to play by, and he seldom ever tells the public about these new rules till long after the dirty deed is done, if ever.... unless somebody on the inside blows the whistle...
I think Wall Street has had ample time to wrangle up a passle of new secret legislations that'll let the Prez use the Act safely and put State's Enemy No.1 away forever.... or hang him publicly from the yard arm as an example to all.
And ye be truly blind, or bought, if ye think there is an actual divide between the wealthy that form the Republican Party and the wealthy that form the Democratic Party.
Their goals are identical in every way now - only their methods differ normally, but not so much anymore.
They aint just drinking and wenching buddies no more.
They got a Plan For A North American Conquest.
Snowden has already set them back ten years! :)
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QuertyYuiopSays100
I can't help but get this feeling that the "instruction" to create a new password, is nothing more than an attempt to make the public "feel" secure in a totally insecure situation and make those responsible for the situation appear to be "on top of the problem".
Tell me my new password is somehow safe from the HeartBleed Virus.
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When bad guys make laws, only bad guys get served by law.
By the Gawds!!! Is it possible??
Could the dream finally be coming to an end??
Are people actually starting to wake up?
If I didn't know better, I'd think that the thin veneer of bullshit being held up in front of the "system", is starting to finally dry up and blow away in the winds of change - leaving bear the ugly truths that nobody wants to see and that everybody has avoided looking at for thirty plus years.
Nah. I must be imagining it.
Otherwise, the "system" would have started a war in order to re-educate the slowly-waking public back to sleep...
... then again, there is a Prezidenshul (S)Election campaign just around the corner.
I understand they're going to run the three stooges against Obama this time.
Republicans know they'll never find a better Democrat than Obama to do their dirty work and keep their own party looking clean.
Three terms is the charm!
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When laws are written by criminals, only criminals are served by law.
In order that they might eventually spy on the USA, as they are doing today, they had to first come up with a publicly-accepted legal target for the process - foreigners.
Americans have always had a somewhat xenophobic attitude about people from other lands so it was easy to slide this kind of exception past anyone who was paying attention. As it was also the policy process of a top secret federal agency, hardly anyone was informed of the plan anyway.
Once the surveillance of foreigners was made legal, the internal policy expanded to include Americans who were linked to foreigners. This was also legally acceptable to those who were in charge of over-seeing the policy of the NSA.
Then, once that was accepted legally, it became policy to include Americans who had a connection to anyone who was linked to any foreigner. The change was minimal and easily accepted by those who today might be labelled official NSA cheerleaders, rather than overseers.
Then once they got away with that legal sleight of hand, internal policy shifted again to include Americans who had any connection to anyone who had any connection to anyone who was linked to any foreigner.
By this point, almost every american would be caught in the net and it would still be legal, because the people approving these changes did not "think" beyond what they were told and the NSA continuously lied to them about its actual operation in order to gain their legal approval. In most cases, the cheerleaders would have preferred to be lied to anyway, so they would not have to "think".
Exactly as it stands today.
Its pretty much the same as what a salesman calls "getting a foot in the door". And its pretty much the same process as is used by corporate paid legislators to weaken laws against corporate profiteering, monopolies, racketeering, etc., by creating poorly written laws purportedly to protect children, women, the environment, desert turtles, etc., then re-interpreting those laws once they're on the books to fulfill their true purpose.
It should be considered as criminal activity, but sadly, its accepted as standard operational procedures now that corporate bribery - lobbying - is also legally accepted.
America needs a total rewrite of its laws, including the elimination of about 80% of what is currently on the books.
Until then, you might as well get used to criminals making laws, and stop all your bitching, because nobody at the top is listening.
They're all too busy counting your money.
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