Freedom, IN – ♬♪ They see you when you’re sleeping, they know when you’re awake; they know when you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake! ♩♫
Our US Congress is trying to give its cronies a Christmas present – re-authorization and more funding for the unconstitutional mass surveillance programs we were once told didn’t exist.
I say it’s time for what some might call a “courtesy flush.” I say it’s time to repeal, nullify, destroy and stomp on National Security Act of 1947 so decisively that it can never take root again. The corruption and destruction and stench of our lawless, secretive societal saboteurs has grown too great.
Thomas Jefferson wrote “…that knolege is power, and that ignorance is weakness.”
So let’s stop being ignorant about who’s got the real power here, and what they’re doing with it.
The FBI was, from its start in 1935, corrupt, snooping, deceitful, and deadly. It took some brave thieves to reveal some of the agency’s crimes. Truman regretted creating the CIA, and Kennedy said he would “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.” The CIA and NSA have been anti-constitutionally spying on all of us, and have repeatedly lied about it…even as they paid journalists, entertainers and clerics to lie on their behalf.
Now, just think about the power of unlimited, unregulated spying, lying, and political immunity, mixed with armed force and the ability to make opposing voices go silent. Imagine you had the power to find out everything about people, convincingly make up what you don’t find, or make even powerful people, maybe even in our own country, die…without facing any consequences.
What government on the planet wouldn’t abuse that power? We have good reason to believe that a government that performed medical experiments on school kids, doesn’t even resist abusing it.
Could such knowledge and power actually control our elected politicians? How about elections themselves? They have the power to lie, to deceive, to control public opinion, to, in essence, hack our brains and control us.
This is what people are talking about with the term, “deep state,” or probably more accurately, “shadow government.”
So-called “federal” agencies’ famous rivalries, withholding of data, rejection of congressional oversight, their anti-constitutional actions against citizens, media and foreign governments, and their trampling of local law enforcement really do make them more enemy than friend.
The greatly abused Title VII, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire December 31. Of course Congress should let it die and tumble back into the sulphureous depths it came from.
But I further propose we abolish the FBI and CIA, and give their money back to the states and people. I would reinforce the constitution’s already clear ban on domestic spying, deception and subterfuge, and leave all domestic law enforcement to more local, appropriate units of government, and already-constitutionally authorized courts.
I propose that the US Congress directly manage our foreign spy operations under specific congressional warrants and limitations, including the Geneva Conventions, just as with constitutional funding and declaration of war and national defense (which hasn’t been the case since WWII, BTW). I propose we make the process and results of FOIA requests more open and complete.
And perhaps most importantly, I propose clarifying that it is a serious crime, eligible for criminal and civil punishment, for agencies and agents of government to withhold the immediate and full release of requested information to congress, and/or in most circumstances as specified by congress, to the public.
“… we want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.” — Harry S. Truman
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Liberty or Bust!
Andy Horning
Freedom, Indiana