Obama: one if by land, two if by sea, three if by metadata
by Jon Rappoport
January 18, 2014
In his Friday speech, Obama ignored the essence of the FISA Court, the secret body that’s rubber-stamped warrants to do surveillance for the past 35 years.
Most of these requests for warrants come from NSA and the FBI, and only government attorneys may appear before the Court, none of whose decisions are made public. Therefore, the Court is a de facto piece of the Executive Branch, and as such its existence violates the separation of powers principle of the Constitution.
One of Snowden’s documents revealed that FISA had approved a blanket warrant requiring Verizon to make available, to NSA, records of all daily phone calls in its system.
No, President Obama said nothing about this. Instead, he led off his speech on the NSA and national security with these words:
“At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee, born out of the Sons of Liberty, was established in Boston. And the group’s members included Paul Revere. At night, they would patrol the streets, reporting back any signs that the British were preparing raids against America’s early patriots.”
Paul Revere as a metaphor for NSA spying.
Yes, it’s not widely known that Paul was a Peeping Tom. He had a mental disorder. He was compulsively sneaking into houses of the colonists in Boston and watching them read by candlelight.
Paul also hung around local meat markets swatting flies and eavesdropping on conversations.
He loitered in saloons, stood outside churches on Sundays to pick up juicy bits of gossip, steamed open letters, and quizzed blacksmiths on what their customers were jabbering about. He stole recipes for Thanksgiving dinner from Indians.
If only he’d had 30,000 employees working for him, he could have blanketed the 13 colonies.
The NSA is spying on 300 million innocent Americans. There is that difference between it and the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Just a small point.
Who’s writing the President’s speeches? Is he trying to make the coronated leader of the free world look as ridiculous as possible? And is Obama even reading the words before he steps to the podium?
“Hey, Cody, this piece about Paul Revere? I know we don’t teach history anymore in this country, but you took it way too far. It doesn’t even make sense. Oh, what the hell, who’ll notice it?”
This weekend, you’ll see pundits on the news talk shows debating whether the President proposed significant enough changes in NSA spying methods. Did he go far enough? On the other side: can American still protect itself against terror attacks?
This is the puppet presentation, framing the conversation in the wrong terms and then taking off from there to see who’s more right.
It’s like mounting a discussion on whether $700 trillion or $800 trillion should be the debt ceiling of the US government.
Here’s a reasonable takeaway from Obama’s speech: politicians lie, and they don’t learn how the moment they’re elected to office for the first time, because that doesn’t give them a long enough lead-in to be good at it.
They ARE liars. They know how to do it, from way back. They’re practiced. Gaining political office is just another opportunity to ply their trade.
It’s a step up. Instead of merely lying as the owner of an oil company or a baseball team, or as a lawyer in an office, or as a community organizer on the street, they can now do it on a larger stage.
Many of them feel they’re born to politics. And that’s why. They lie, and they lie about lying, and what they lie about when, for example, they move into the Oval Office is much more important.
“I thought I was telling whoppers back in Chicago (Little Rock, Whittier, Crawford), but this is really something. Now I’m not just saying black is white, I’m saying it’s glowingly, blindingly white.”
The news talk show I’d like to see this weekend would pose the following question: how would you compare, say, a king claiming God has given him a divine right to rule vs. President Obama saying we have nothing to worry about in this, the Surveillance State?
It’s important to know the ultimate rationalization politicians give themselves when they’re lying about everything all the time. It is:
“The people, the public are animals, biological machines, and they roam the countryside, and they’re very, very dangerous, and they must be controlled. They’re operating on faulty programming, and the only solution is giving them new and better programming. Meanwhile, we have to lie to them, to keep them reasonably pacified.”
Welcome to Democracy. First, for about five minutes, as the ink was drying on the freshly signed Constitution, there was a Republic. Then, men began asking, “How can I twist this thing and lie all the time?” Democracy was the consequence.
In order to make Democracy stick, we have the Surveillance State, and presidents who give it cover.
Jon Rappoport
The author of two explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED and EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com
You totally nailed it: democracy is dead, broken a long, long time ago. I wonder what comes next?
Democracy is Tyranny of the masses. Individual Liberty is all that matters to individuals and all that keeps tyrants awake at night.
First, America is NOT a democracy. It is a Constitutional republic, and thre is some VERY important differences, one of which the people who “serve” are just temp workers with an inflated ego and huge paycheck. They are put into position to carry out Certain duties. (PERIOD!) When they refuse to do the job they were put into palce for they can be removed by being FIRED for breaking the contrct, prosecuted for the felony of breaking ethe LAWFULLY required oath, etc.
Who is in charge of all of this? The US Constitution assigned that duty to the Militia of the several states:
Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
US Constitution, Article I, Section. 8, Clause 11: “To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water”. [Emphasis added]
The congress has the duty to grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal when they are needed to enforce the US Constitution, the laws, or defend the people and the nation. This is using private citizens in their own privately owned crafts to defend the USA and her people, this is using the Militia.
Clause 12 specifies that there shall be no military beyond that of the Militia here: “To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years”.
* NOTE: The money that the congress has illegally spent beyond the lawfully allowed time of two years for the support of a “standing military” was/and still is a misappropriation of funds (misappropriation n. the intentional, illegal use of the property or funds of another person for one’s own use or other unauthorized purpose, particularly by a public official…), a felony, a crime against the American people.
“To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years” is really straightforward, and no “misunderstanding” of the words can be used as an excuse for disobeying that lawfully required duty. The members of congress can be, and should be, held personally responsible for that breach of trust. That is correct, they must pay back the funds used unlawfully out of their personal accounts. (End Note)
–>Clause 15 requires of the congress: “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and REPEL INVASIONS”.
This clause is very straightforward also. The militia of each state is taxed with the defense of the USA and her people, not just with the defense of their state; and they are to be armed with weapons that can repel any invasions bearing modern weapons of war. Congress is required to provide those military grade weapons for the militias.
Clause 16 makes it very clear that the ARMING OF THE MILITIA OF EACH STATE is a LAWFUL duty assigned to the congress that they are REQUIRED to carry out.
Clause 16: “To provide for organizing, ARMING, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress”.
Each state’s Militia is made up of “We the People”. The Militia has as its constitutionally assigned duties to:
Enforce the US Constitution and each state’s Constitution,
Enforce and keep the “Laws of the Union” (constitutional laws ONLY),
Protect the country against all enemies both domestic and foreign, and
“to suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”.
The US Constitution guarantees to each state its own “Republican form of government”. It is every state’s Militia that is the ONLY Constitutionally assigned force to “counter Invasions” and “Domestic Violence” within our nation.
First off, the US being a “republic” is [a] dream since the Civil War. Anyone who believes differently is [delusional].
Second – those ” people who “serve” are just temp workers with an inflated ego and huge paycheck” are driving this bus. Not you, nor I, nor anyone who values or approved the principles the “Several Sovereign States” agreed to in the latter quarter of the 18th Century.
Cite all the documents or quotes you want regarding how things “should be” and I’ll [show you] the reality of how things actually are.
[Go ahead and] live your ideals. You are not able to in the USSA.
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Like you, I’ve done my best to impact the trajectory of the growing tyranny, though on a much smaller scale.
I’ve reached a point in my life when leaving the battlefield physically and disengaging from the predominant culture at large is now the most sane goal.
There are Fourth Turning cycles in play that cannot be denied, they can only be survived. As such I’m expatriating and doing my best to show reg’lar folks that they can too. My grandfather left Ukraine one hundred years ago for survival and opportunity. I’m doing the same.
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Sir,
You have the NSA.
Don’t ask me.
If you did not like anything what I did ignore it. Ignore it. Ignore it. I have a life to live.
There is an offer to have a conference.
And there was a promise do nothing.
So if you don’t like LEAVE THE OFFER.
LEAVE ME ALONE.
If you do not leave me alone, which is what happened, I have to still keep living my life.
When I live my life the way I want it and YOU keep spying there is always mis interpretation. There is always Misinterpretation. there is always mis interpretation.
For example, that toilet I wanted to properly clean for a long time. The HCL acid was in my garage for months. So once I started the job (start being connected to you I admit) I have to finish it. Looks like I have keep my toilet in limbo because you will have a mis interpretation. See where I am going with this. This insanity has to stop. There is always a part of your mind I am clueless about. You have to deal with your negative emotions. I can’t do it for you.
So don’t snoop. And don’t try to fry my brain. Because you are going to desperately need it. Come and see. Then you have the chance to ask the question directly. Then I have the chance to answer directly, without any ambiguity and time lapse.
Looks like all you want is I have to keep thinking how to pander to that part of your minds I am clueless about. Right now I am thinking the welfare of my family. Is that also a problem for you. Looks that way to me.
Keep everything you have. Live your life happily the way you like it. and leave me alone. Leave me alone. Leave me alone.
I will stop looking all of your websites. If you want information. There is the messenger option.
YOU have no idea What I go through. See me and convince me that my life too is going to be better. Because, “in Cosmos we trust” alone is going to cut it.
Because, “in Cosmos we trust” alone is NOT going to cut it.
The above is a correction to the last clause. The word NOT was added.
Addendum
This is what I think about Mr Bush that matters.
He put his face up. He was the God who took responsibility. The God who had courage. Who had balls. In my books that is a plus that he only has.
Now in saying this I am NOT trying to undermine the courage of the Other Gods. I repeat this as many times as you choose to get it. So do not go in the path of insanity and make me go insane too.
If Mr Bush so desires, I can make him an immortal God just like every other God I said I could. Rest assured I can make 7 billion people to believe that it is a good idea.
Now other gods, take that lesson from Mr Bush and face up. If Mr bush alone wants to commence some sane convergence to this 13 month old insanity, I am delighted to meet him alone. At least for home everything to gain. Because he has balls.
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True. But you see, “We the people” as the “organized” (trained) Militia of the several states are the ones the US Constitution KEPT as the DEFENSE of our lives, family, property, cities, states, and country; and the ENFORCEMENT of the US Constitution and each state’s Constitution.
That is correct, which is why they have “made fun of”, changed the name to disorganized Militia, called the Miltia’s of the several states “terrorsist orgizations” and “crackpots gathering, etc. Not saying that all are lawful as some are just groups.
It DECLARES this here:
Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
US Constitution, Article I, Section. 8, Clause 11: “To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water”.
The congress has the duty to grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal when they are needed to enforce the US Constitution, the laws, or defend the people and the nation. This is using private citizens in their own privately owned crafts to defend the USA and her people, this is using the Militia.
Clause 15 requires of the congress: “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and REPEL INVASIONS”.
This clause is very straightforward also. The militia of each state is taxed with the defense of the USA and her people, not just with the defense of their state; and they are to be armed with weapons that can repel any invasions bearing modern weapons of war. Congress is required to provide those military grade weapons for the militias.
Clause 16 makes it very clear that the ARMING OF THE MILITIA OF EACH STATE is a LAWFUL duty assigned to the congress that they are REQUIRED to carry out.
Clause 16: “To provide for organizing, ARMING, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress”.
Each state’s Militia is made up of “We the People”. The Militia has as its constitutionally assigned duties to:
Enforce the US Constitution and each state’s Constitution,
Enforce and keep the “Laws of the Union” (constitutional laws ONLY),
Protect the country against all enemies both domestic and foreign, and
“to suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions”.
The US Constitution guarantees to each state its own “Republican form of government”. It is every state’s Militia that is the ONLY Constitutionally assigned force to “counter Invasions” and “Domestic Violence” within our nation.
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