Sociology > Depression > Re: the rebellion depending on the watery north is the sheep that gazes alone
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Sociology > Depression |
| User: |
"Ibrahim AL-Najjar" |
| Date: |
14 Jan 2008 03:06:24 AM |
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Re: the rebellion depending on the watery north is the sheep that gazes alone |
email me.
Later versions of this document can be searched for at dejanews.com.
Or, you can email me, Subject: Requesting Cryptography Manifesto.
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---- Here comes a large 'reasoned polemic':
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This is a U.S.-centric message, but keep reading even if you are not in the
U.S.; British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand citizens are also directly
affected.
This message is about ECHELON, which is an unbelievably huge world-wide
spying apparatus, including the domestic phone calls of many countries.
United States citizens' phone calls are being monitored in a dragnet
fashion not even George Orwell could have imagined.
This was all paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
Built in secret. Not debated.
The CALEA legislation is a shameful takes-us-into-the-abyss domestic spy bill.
It is for the FBI to simultaneously monitor HUGE amounts of our phone calls.
And when the judiciary found out about NSA monitoring U.S. citizens'
overseas telephone calls without a warrant: they approved the loss
of our Fourth Amendment rights.
Giving Presidential Directives the same force of law as the Constitution.
Congress has lost it too.
* The New York Times, undated
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* The House is not expected to vote on the search-and-seizure bill until
* at least Wednesday. But tonight the Republicans defeated a Democratic
* amendment that SIMPLY REITERATED THE WORDS OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT OF
* THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION.
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* The vote was 303 to 121.
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* The Democrats were trying to portray the Republicans as wanting to
* eliminate the constitutional protection against unlawful searches.
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* Indeed, they cornered the Republicans into saying that the measure
* containing the Fourth Amendment would gut the seizure bill.
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