We have of course the NSA and it's massive spying on US
citizens. Spying on journalists and News organizations (even Leftist ones that
support the totalitarian Obama regime), IRS spying on and trying to financially
cripple organizations that oppose Obama and his Leftist oligarchy, and TSA
harassment of ordinary law abiding citizens traveling within the US. We have
Homeland Security buying up ten of millions of rounds of ammunition, reportedly
as much or more per person than what's allocated to military personal. That
sounds suspiciously like a domestic military force.
Just a reminder of what the Fourth Amendment requires of the
government. "The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States
Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that guards against unreasonable
searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially
sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the
abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a type of general search warrant, in
the American Revolution. Search and seizure (including arrest) should be
limited in scope according to specific information supplied to the issuing
court, usually by a law enforcement officer, who has sworn by it. The Fourth
Amendment applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment." [Wikipedia]
I'll say the usual and obvious here. If a Republican president
and his political party were violating the Forth Amendment this openly and
outrageously, Democrats/Leftists/Socialists would be screaming bloody murder.
Remember the big kerfuffle with Bush II and the Patriot Act allowing Feds to
check what people checked out of the library? Or tracking terrorist
organizations financials. Or listening to known terrorist phone conversations?
Oh my God, Bush is a dictator! All our rights have been violated!
And yet, here we have a president and his political party
clearly ignoring the Constitution and openly spying on citizens. The Federal Government's
[anti] law enforcement agencies focus on the law abiding. A couple of recent
examples that have just emerged that is even more blatant violations of
citizens' rights are searching cars in airports without a search warrant, and
police cars that record license plates on tens of thousands of cars, and those
go into a national tracking database.
Here's the report of searching cars at the airport without a
search warrant or notifying the owner of the car. Full article here.
Here's what being done by the government monitoring cars.
They justify it by saying there's no expectation of privacy, this is done in
public domain, and there's no intent of using the information to track or
monitor the public. Seriously? Of course it is.
" WASHINGTON (AP) — Chances are, your local or state
police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where
you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong.
Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across
the country have amassed millions of digital records on the location and
movement of every vehicle with a license plate, according to a study published
Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union. Affixed to police cars,
bridges or buildings, the scanners capture images of passing or parked vehicles
and note their location, uploading that information into police databases.
Departments keep the records for weeks or years, sometimes indefinitely."
Full article here.
It amazes me that so many Americans are willing to submit to
being spied on, harassed, inconvenienced, and have all their private movements,
their health issues, their communications and everything else in their lives
monitored by the government in violation of the Constitution and all laws that
flow from it.
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