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By Devvy Kidd
9-13-12
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House Votes Today to Legalize Warrantless Wiretaps
Activist Post
Only days after a NSA whistleblower has sounded the alarm about the
government's massive spying campaign on American citizens, the U.S. Congress
who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution are set to legalize warrantless
wiretaps with the reauthorization of the secretive FISA Amendments Act.
This legislation is the perfect example of why there is no difference between
the political parties. Their rhetoric may differ when it's politically
expedient, but when push comes to shove they always vote for tyranny.
Obama said he was against the Patriot Act to get elected because the majority
of Americans opposed it, but then he supported its extension not for one year,
but for four years. Obama repeatedly attacked Bush's warrantless wiretaps as
unconstitutional, but now he's expected to sign this 5-year reauthorization
once the unprincipled legislators rubber stamp it today.
It seems the only time Congress acts in a bipartisan way is when they're
trampling the Constitutional rights of Americans.
ACLU wrote this about the legislation:
It permits the government to get year-long orders from the secret Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to conduct dragnet surveillance of
Americans’ international communications—including phone calls, emails, and
internet records—for the purpose of collecting foreign intelligence. The orders
need not specify who is going to be spied on or even allege that the targets
did anything wrong. The only guarantees that the FAA gives are that no specific
American will be targeted for wiretapping and that some (classified) rules
about the use of intercepted information will be followed.
After four years, you’d hope that some basic information or parameters of such
a massive spying program would be divulged to the public, or at least your
rank-and-file member of Congress, but they haven’t...
Can you believe that 435 members of Congress who have sworn to uphold the
Constitution are about to vote on a sweeping intelligence gathering law without
this basic information?
If you hear politicians say that FISA actually provides meaningful oversight,
they can't possibly know that due to the secrecy of the approval process. But
you may remind them that every single secret surveillance request was approved
in 2011 indicating a rubber stamp approval.
Don't be a person of good conscience who remains silent. Call your
Congressperson and tell them to vote NO.
US House Switchboard operator: (202) 224-3121
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It is the duty of the Patriot to protect their country from its government!
Thomas Paine
Isn’t it ironic that President Obama is so reveled in the nation's Black
community, when the Luo tribe from which he came has a history of selling
prisoners of rival African tribes to the Muslims who delivered them to the
auction blocks in Europe and America?
Rich Martin
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