The Fourth Amendment to the United States 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.”
Late last night, early this morning (after midnight), the United States Senate passed a FISA reauthorization bill that directly and specifically violates every tenant of the 4th Amendment.
The Senate voted to authorize warrantless federal government searches of every American’s private papers, effects, emails, electronic data records, cell phone calls, contact lists, text messages, buying habits, purchases, banking records, social media posts, direct messages, private communications and every keystroke of every electronic device in your life. All of it continues to be subject to the capture, review and surveillance of an unelected opaque law enforcement mechanism, and Congress supports it.
The issue is magnified, because the Supreme Court has never ruled on the constitutionality of the FISA-702 data collection system, because the Supreme Court also says no American has standing to challenge the federal government violation of their 4th Amendment right to privacy. It’s all infuriating… It’s all FUBAR!
Oh, and if you are reading this… you’re likely on the list.
Last night, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) teamed up with Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and added an amendment that would have required the government to get a warrant before reviewing any communications incidentally collected from Americans. The amendment was the last effort priority for a smidgen of hope; the IC railed against it, saying it would stop them from acting on critical “national security” information in real time. It failed by a vote of 42 to 50.
Another Democrat Senator, Ron Wyden (Oregon), a senior member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, vowed and pledged that FISA-702 would never be renewed by any measure that required his signature. “I’ll do everything in my power to stop it,” he previously said. “Searches have gone after American protesters, political campaign donors, even people who simply reported crimes to the FBI. The abuses have been extensive and well documented,” Wyden argued to colleagues. Wyden’s effort to strike the language failed by a vote of 34 to 58.
“Egregious Fourth Amendment violations against U.S. citizens will increase dramatically if this bill is passed into law,” Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee warned. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) offered an amendment to block DHS, FBI, DOJ, IRS, and various ancillary intelligence, law enforcement, national parks and government agencies from buying Americans’ electronic NSA data from third parties and federal contractors. Paul’s amendment failed by a vote of 31 to 61.
The House and Senate bill does include provisions that would force the Intelligence Community to notify political leadership in Congress about 702 database searches involving lawmakers, but you, Comrade Citizen, are not allowed to know about the searches done on you. You, comrade prole, must improve your elite status if you wish to participate in any benefit from the shredded and reconfigured 4th Amendment, now reserved for the entitled class.
As noted by The Hill, Senator Mike “Lee offered an amendment to require the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to appoint an outside lawyer to argue for the rights of a U.S. person the government wants to surveil secretly. It would have also required government employees appearing before the FISA court to disclose factual evidence that might call into question the accuracy of their statements. It also failed even though it had previously passed the Senate with 77 votes in 2020.”
Go figure!
Hey, stop me when you start to notice something that looks like history rhyming.
There’s an inversion afoot.
People in DC claim they cannot see it….
People in DC claim they don’t see the parallels…
People in DC hate my pesky annoyances….
People in DC are our abusers….
Throw sand into the machine whenever possible…
Wolverines!
The DC cesspool is the enemy within.
Far more dangerous than any enemy without.
Pure EVIL.
God Help Us.
add to this, “and those who support the DC cesspool”
I’ve seen movies that have high tech societies and you know what, they always get destroyed. We can hope all the IC tech watchers get fat and have heart attacks sitting at their computer screens.
They have been watching me since I was born. They did not need technology to watch me, I filled out everything they needed to know in paper work. Think of all the paper work we have sent to the government over the years and in a timely fashion ( it had better have been on time or else). Now they will gather tons and tons of useless information and the insane part thing will only get worse.
Once and a while they will release a report to the MSM about getting some loony they found on the internet planning to do something. Letting us know they are on the job!
Now I have a vote against Senate list. Hopefully this will be challenged in court ASAP and SCOTUS will restore the Constitution!!
On the SC are two Justices nominated by a person who was never constitutionally eligible for the presidency.
Do you think they’re going to restore the Constitution which, had it been abided by, would have prevented their being seated?????
While the Senate just enshrined the evolving police state in “law” with the FISA extension, the rule of law in the USA no longer actually exists. We are now a nation of men, not laws. The Constitution is ignored. Our civil liberties are now subject to interpretation. We exist under the whim of the State and the power elite.
I just spoke with a typical American who is generally patriotic, a good family man, and hard-working with middle to upper middle income. Busy with life as are many Americans, he’s not even aware of what FISA renewal means or that it has passed both houses of congress.
The Statists are doing to America today exactly what the Nazi Party did to Germany in the 1930s. Most of what the Nazis did to assume dictatorial control was done under the auspices of law, whether constitutional or not.
Yes,…they tend to want the illusion of legitimacy, hence they pass laws, giving them legal cover to do what they are going to do, anyway.
Having that illusion of legitimacy seems to be important to them,..
Nazis wanted Jews to think they were riding the rails to work camps. Why?
The legal legitimacy give the elites and political hacks the authority to used their “law enforcement” agencies to arrest, prosecute (persecute), intimidate, threaten and even eventually kill all dissenters to their control narrative and power grabbing plans .
President Donald J. Trump and the J6 protestors are a prime example of this squashing and silencing political rivals through the “legal cover of legitimacy”. That is why it is so important to them.
And the irony Sundance refers to is thicker than anyone may realize….
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Hitler.
You couldn’t make it up.
….And to add for perspective, notice how all description of the National SOCIALIST Workers Party of Germany (NAZIS) is always referred to as a “far right” totalitarian political ideology? Sound familiar when the propaganda news outlets refer to President Trump, his supporters or MAGA in general?
Here is a an article discussing this very subject.
“Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian”
https://mises.org/mises-daily/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian
Yes, and most Americans are broke or living paycheck to paycheck. This is their plan so most of us remain slaves of the state.
The one and only way to fight back against corrupt regimes is to stop working, stop shipping their products, stop buying their products, and finally stop paying taxes.
We out number them but most Americans don’t have a clue about what’s happening or what’s at stake.
“At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move all the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.” – Frank Zappa
I Read the The Puzzle Palace by James Bamford in the eighties. The NSA has been spying on us for decades with underground vaults full of computers tapping into all telephone calls looking for key words that will start recording your call.
From Wikipedia:
“Before the book’s publication, the Reagan administration claimed that unclassified source documents were released to Bamford in error, and threatened him with prosecution if he did not return 250 pages of documents he had obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. The documents in question related to a 1975-76 DOJ investigation, and described the NSA’s widespread illegal monitoring of domestic communication, warrantless surveillance of Americans, and monitoring of commercial cable and telex traffic. Bamford’s attorney, believing that they would prevail in court, invited the DOJ to prosecute, but no case was ever brought. In the wake of the dispute, classification rules were revised to allow document reclassification, and the contested documents were reclassified. NSA agents then visited libraries to remove other source documents from circulation”
Now our fearless leaders have made this legal for all intel communities. They will eventually make all their totalitarian agenda legal. We the People are their enemies unless we submit to the feudal Lords. The forth amendment is gone and they are going after all the other amendments. “Never Surrender”.
They removed material from libraries? This government censorship goes back a long way.
Can you say “Blackbriar”?
I try to include Blackbriar in every text, email or phone convo I have,…not easy to work it into a convo, I gotta tell you!
“Have you seen my blackbriar pipe, it has a unique shape, etc.
Im wagering July 4th is going to have some competition soon
Neither of my Republican senators from Oklahoma voted against the bill …but Bernie Sanders did. That’s all I need to know. Worthless bastards.
“U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) co-led an amendment with fellow U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) to restrict warrantless access to communications and other information of Americans, increase privacy and civil liberty protections.”
“It’s a big club, and we ain’t in it.”
And for that, I am incredibly thankful🙏🏻
Joebama did this to spy on Trump. I just wonder what kinda crap they are cooking up on him.
‘“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,…” ‘
But, those who want the 4th Amendment overruled because they are fearful will say “these are not unreasonable.”
It’s subjective, and in today’s America in the grip of Safetyism and the other fear-rooted aspects of the Cluster B pathocracy, it is perfectly “reasonable” to maintain 100% surveillance on all.
https://christopherrufo.com/p/institutionalized-derangement
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/02/what-is-the-longhouse
And those abusing the surveillance powers are pleased to exploit this situation, of course
The China model. Brought back to the US once the total surveillance of and social credit system was fully brought online in China. Courtesy of Eric Schmidt,former Goog executive officer.
My prayer is for the witchcraft-laden DC to fall into the hands of those they fear the most. And it will fall.
Every so often I ask myself;
“If we knew then, what we know NOW, would J6 have
played out differently,…?”
Yes! Absolutely!
“we”?
them?
them – it most certainly played out exactly as “they” preferred.
noting: in stage 4, revolution (transfer of power), there is a back and forth between the immovable object and the unstoppable force. It is during this stage, when conditions deteriorate for those seeking freedom, liberty and justice. But it must be stated that this is how revolutions do happen. Pain..increasing pain. Until unbearable. Then we go to stage 5…but not before american PEOPLE suffer much much more pain. I am not just talking about economic pain and loss of purchasing power. I am talking about restrictions of movement, restrictions on what you can and cannot say online, in public, or in perhaps in private settings (bounties will be made to pay rewards for reporting “MIS” information..that is coming soon).. I am talking about WHAT AND HOW MUCH power (fuel, food stuff) you can buy AND FROM WHOM AND WHERE (this is also coming). The pain will also come in the form of “mysterious” infrastructure terrorism/disruptions…bleeding into open war conflict with Russia, north Korea and of course, china and Iran…this means the pain our military forces will experience will be overwhelming AND PEOPLE BACK HOME will also suffer from scarcity issues and power issues. How do I KNOW this will happen?
because this is exactly how a corrupt central state operates to subjugate it’s society into obedience.
this worked for the british crown for nearly 38 years before freedom was RESTORED. But I will also point out that this outcome dependly solely on the sacrifices of just 3 percent of the population.
understanding revolutions and how they progress and the actual numbers required/demanded to effect great change is very important. To some, it may seem daunting to realize that “only” 3 percent will step forward again. I suppose it depends on how you think about it. It naturally fits just about all other circumstances also: the few make things happen. the rest, spectate./
God Bless America
The forums over at GWP are blowing up over this (as would be expected). It’s becoming increasingly evident that the republic has been lost, and we are left with only one viable option.
The Constitutional Republic of the USA is LONG GONE. We lost it on Jan 20, 2021, when Xiden took the oath of office. Every institution at the national level is corrupt to the core and has been long before Xiden and Trump. Even the US Postal Service has been corrupted, as evidenced by the fact that they were heavily involved in the ballot fraud that undermined the elections in 2020 and 2022. It is only more recently that we are becoming aware of how bad it really is.
There is no realistic hope of salvaging the democratic republic that we once had, and the sooner that we all come to terms with that, the better. The corruption is too pervasive and too extensive. We are NOT going to “vote our way out of this”.
Those States where sanity and integrity still prevail need to act ASAP to save themselves, to gain (or regain) their independence, to assert their right to self-determination. The Texas Nationalist Movement is leading that effort in Texas.
texitnow.Org
tnm.Me
If Texas gets out, several other States would probably follow, perhaps even your own.
#NationalDivorce
Having watched the Impeachment of Paxton, and so being clear on who actually controls the Texas State Legislature, and the Governor, and knowing those same entities will be behind any such Texit effort, I wouldn’t get anywhere NEAR such a wasted and uneccesary, pointless diversion.
No way the Derps would allow a state to peaceably secede.
I thought we broke that code a long time ago . . .
They would have a hell of a time securing Texas back into the union of socialist Amerika.
Hence, far from peaceable.
A far cry from the typical Pollyannish enthusiasm that accompanies most endorsements.
A call for Secession is a call for Civil War, no matter how glibly the argument is presented.
“A call for Secession is a call for Civil War, no matter how glibly the argument is presented.”
Disagree.
What other options are there?
Do you believe that we are going to “vote our way out of this”?
Alone?
No.
But we most assuredly are not going to Doom our way out of this.
1: Paxton is still in office. The impeachment effort has exposed a lot of RINOs, and many of them have been primaried (Phelan is probably going to lose in his runoff against Covey). A lot of those who are either in runoffs. or have won their primaries outright, are “Texas First” pledge signers that will be supportive of a referendum on Texas Independence.
2: Gov. Abbott has been quietly making moves that might be interpreted as making preparations for Texas Independence.
3: Momentum is building as Texans become increasingly aware of the movement, and as it has begun to enter the general discussion.
4: There are no better options. Anything else is just a waste of time and effort. The longer this is delayed, the worse it will get, and it could reach the point to where it’s too late. If so, we will ALL be royally screwed.
The secession of a state is a losing proposition. Hold onto your marbles, and stay in the game.
Where’s Ukraine on this map? Can’t seem to find it?
Almost every state is largely dependent on the MIC now.
Cut the fiat debt funding for the MIC and they will be in even worse shape than they are now.
That’s part of the problem.
But only part… the other parts are also bringing the Republic down.
Are we starting to understand yet?
In the heart of DC!
They don’t look at maps. They only look at bank-account statements.
It reeks of idolatry towards Israel. Can’t we bless the Jews without worshipping the Jews? Where is the line? All I know is Mike Johnson is a traitor towards the country to which he took an oath, in the name of God, to defend.
Deliberately trying to get removed from his post.
I’m sure you are absolutely right.
https://gab.com/nonsense_planet/posts/112305567831001541
Sorry. Description: Commie takedown of the United States
Deep state: constitution? We don’t need no stinking constitution. We have F-15’s.
Derps expanding their targeting options against MAGA.
Now where have we seen the Specter of Islamist Extremism played up of late?
🤔
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
I think now is the time to leave the cellphone at home.
Hoodie, sunglasses and mask is my new normal outfit.
Make them earn it..
Add in a large-brimmed hat, and you’ve got yourself a deal. 👍
They have Xray technology that can see right through your mask.
That is from a 2018 book I read called,
“The End of Life as we know it” By Michael Guillen
And all kinds of other AI assisted surveillance and that was 6 years ago.
Then you should also know like any arms race, the “other side” has been just as nimble – making masks that block RF energy through simple, inexpensive means.
The issue is magnified, because the Supreme Court has never ruled on the constitutionality of the FISA-702 data collection system, because the Supreme Court also says no American has standing to challenge the federal government violation of their 4th Amendment right to privacy. It’s all infuriating… It’s all FUBAR!
I do believe the part I underlined is the crux of the matter – citizens have no standing in the eyes of ANY branches of the government – which is the exact OPPOSITE of what this nation was founded on, where the government serves at the discretion and behest of the people and it is the government which has no standing, except for that allowed by – and not yet withdrawn by – the people.
That said, it doesn’t change an immutable truth – there is NOTHING, not a crisis, not a war, not a pandemic, not an edict, absolutely nothing that can take away our natural rights and those which the government is expressly forbid from taking.
I pray one of these days the people of this once great nation realize it and en mass begin refusing to allow it.
A Redcoat in every home. Don’t let them know about the Militia of the Million Loan Wolves.
What if they grew up and came out from under the cone of silence and learned to talk to members of the public like adults and dispensed with all the surveilly-stuff. A lot of us are pretty honest and if you need to know something, just ask and we’ll tell ya, but all the ‘cable guy’ stuff is kinda creepy and frankly so are some of these govt. employees.
Tenet. Tenant is somebody leasing property.
Johnson’s argument for supporting warrantless FISA searches (i.e. FBI’s job can be done better if don’they don’t have to put up with these bothersome “rules”) is nonsensical and could be used by any law enforcement agency that wants to be free of judicial oversight.
the ENTIRE MEDIA/PRESS has taken a nap on this news.
not a single outlet or reporter has the balls and courage to write about this and explain what it means.
that is really all you need to know about the secret police spy state that IS the United States Government
It’s going to get much worse.
God Bless America
Our government hates us.
Treason should be killed