Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D – VT) appeared entirely unimpressed with President Obama’s vague pledges of “reforms” in his Friday speech, and today promised to push legislation with more meaningful reforms.
“There’s a concern that we have gone too much into Americans’ privacy,” Leahy noted, saying he had no doubt that the Senate would continue with legislation on the matter.
Leahy has co-authored the USA Freedom Act, which would end the NSA phone metadata plan outright, while strengthening prohibitions against surveillance of American citizens by the NSA.
Leahy was joined on TV by Gen. Michael Hayden, who objected to even the nominal reforms offered by Obama, arguing that if anything in the program wasn’t vital “we wouldn’t have been using it.”
Yeah Mike, it's not like the government is wasteful, aims to gain more and more control, and breaks the law and then later modifies to law to appear make it's illegal activities "legal".
Sen. Leahy's bill is going to fail now that Obama has given up trying to look like he welcomes the discussion on the merits of Statism and Minarchism. Obama reveals that he is a believer in "the ends justify the means" and Leahy's views, despite being more citizen-friendly, will quickly lose support of those pols who are confused or more likely willfully ignorant, to the point where the bill will fail on vote, perhaps by a whisker.
Until the citizens realize that they are irrelevant in the current scheme of things, it will not change. America is at a crossroads where decisions made now will clear the board of opposing philosophies for decades to come, either way it falls.
We need a tax revolt. A day of work stoppage. Rebellion is in the air, and we need to strike before it's too late.
We need a tax revolt. A day of work stoppage. Rebellion is in the air, and we need to strike before it's too late.