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Thread #151099 Message #3530009
Posted By: Songwronger
24-Jun-13 - 09:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: The NSA Scandal/Snowden
Subject: RE: BS: The NSA Scandal
"Edward Snowden has been charged with espionage and is being denounced by American politicians and media commentators as a traitor who is spying for the enemy. But to whom is he giving information? To the American people. In the eyes of Snowden's accusers, the enemy is the American people."
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/06/24/pers-j24.html
I can understand some foreigner with no understanding of the U.S. constitution endorsing the lawless organization that our government has become, but an American?
The Fourth Amendment to the constitution says:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
In order to search (surveil) you need a warrant. A sworn oath that particularly describes what is being sought. That's absolute. It's in our bedrock governing document.
George W. Bush went insanely criminal with his "warrantless" searches, and then the FISA court setup was adopted. But the FISA warrants don't comply with the constitution, and they are as illegal as Bush's warrantless searches.
It is amazing to see Americans, faced with the biggest violation of constitutional rights in our nation's history, choose to side with Obama and the other elites and say that NSA surveillance is all right.