In mid-November, the US Supreme Court refused outright to issue any ruling on NSA surveillance, apparently taking the Obama Administration’s argument to leave it to lower courts to heart. They’re not getting out of it though, and the issue seems to be rushing back to them faster than anyone expected.
That’s because two weeks have seen two judges issue entirely contradictory rulings on NSA metadata surveillance, with the first, Judge Leon, saying it was almost certainly unconstitutional, and today Judge Pauley in New York declaring it perfectly legal.
Pauley’s argument centered entirely around 9/11, saying that the Fourth Amendment protection depends on the question of “reasonableness,” and by his reckoning it was entirely reasonable because 9/11.
The Pauley argument ignores entirely the Obama Administration’s own review panel saying the scheme has accomplished nothing and should be reformed, and the ACLU has promised to appeal.
That appeal could bounce around in lower appellate courts for awhile, but sooner or later, the Supreme Court is going to be facing the issue directly, and given the high-profile nature of the controversy it is probably going to be “sooner.”
This just goes to show how the Bill Of Rights can be totally subjugated. The judges ruling was that we have to give up freedom for security, and that is a major attack on the B.O.R.
9/11 has become the demonic symbol by which it tramples on every basic human rights across the globe.
The ferocity of the constitutional subversion unleashed by that "event of opportunity" points clearly to the fact that there were many, many regimists itching to implement a plan that had been devised years before 2001. I listened with contempt in the mid-1990s to various "law enforcement" types bragging that it was only a matter of time before they would have carte blanche in dealing with suspects. Also, look up "Library Awareness Program" for part of the background of the business records section of the Patriot Act. You could do similar research for most of the rest of that legislative abomination. The fact that the Patriot Act was a consolidated package of wet dreams from various agencies is the reason such a voluminously worded statute could be whipped out in a complete and ready form in only three weeks.
Richard Leon – member of the Federalist Society, and thus a regimist member of the US version of the Cheka. http://books.google.com/books?id=nxE6gGhE2uMC&…
I cannot determine if Pauley is also a member of the Federalist Society, but it would hardly be surprising if he were.
When you have a general population that is willingly ignorant of what is going on around them, then events like 9/11 become the tools by which the Archons subjugate the people and abrogate the Constitution and the BOR while being cheered by those being screwed. The strawman argument that these curtailments of delineated rights is necessary to protect our "freedoms" are echoed and championed by the lazy and easily led. Some people have to believe the lie being handed to them because they are unable to believe that they were lied to and that they bought the lie lock, stock, and barrel.
When you have a general population that is willingly ignorant of what is going on around them, then events like 9/11 become the tools by which the Archons subjugate the people and abrogate the Constitution and the BOR while being cheered by those being screwed. The strawman argument that these curtailments of delineated rights is necessary to protect our "freedoms" are echoed and championed by the lazy and easily led. Some people have to believe the lie being handed to them because they are unable to believe that they were lied to and that they bought the lie lock, stock, and barrel.
I find it notable that it took the Administration 10 days to locate a Judge to make this ruling.
Pauly is a wimp and a tool of tyranny. Is there any cheaper "argument" than the idea that 9/11 allows the government to suspend the constitution and the rule of law.
While the Swedish government pays hackers to find out about their citizens living els where, while Neo liberals governments both in Europe and America, fascist or not, coordinate their efford to collect data on other government and citizens calling it "war on terror" legitimizing their spying method, while their austerity methods killing people's, questions the reason for this judge ruling NSA syping practices a legal act using fancy legal words, what NSA knows about this judge? He must be one of the citizens among millions of other citizens which NSA gathered data, or?
Furtheremore, traditional spying always existed and conducted by some sorte of government agencies or privet entity hired by government, even assassinating a citizens has been the agendas, yet, spying is in fact used to spy on people, otherwise, governments knows who the terrorists are, where they are and what they want and they are used to accomplish the goals of a government. Terrorists are not that sufisticated as governments are saying, if they are, is because government/s have been working with them through their business and their spy agencies or otherwise, making them sufisticated where they can be used, Balkan war, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and now Syria are the example.
Such a mass collection of data doesn't have anything to do with terrorism or terrorists, the concept is a mouth full use of words for what is know as psychological warfare. Having said that, these governments are desperate for their future, is their method in class war fare, more harm in terms of social economic they conducte, less chance they will have to be reelected by the majority of the people, so, they are after little man on the street while their "class" are protected by all means. The concept is about giant energy, banks and bankers in corporations ruling these governments, the governments are told to due something about people's conscious, spying on them is one of the method, creating a total police stat is another.