Campaign For Liberty | September 10, 2009
Mark Lerner
Once again, security for the country is what we are told is the motivation for allowing the government the capability to listen to phone calls or monitor our emails. We are asked to believe that agencies and departments of the federal government will not use all the tools in the technological cookie jar that Congress has provided.
I am bewildered as to why anyone would trust that the NSA, FBI or DHS will start obeying the law. The FBI scripted their own version of FISA (which eavesdropped on American citizen's phone calls, intercepted emails and monitored financial transactions). The FBI abused National Security Letters. DHS's Mocny conceded that the DHS can and will ignore federal privacy laws.
The Stop Real ID Coalition and the Constitutional Alliance work around the clock attempting to stay current on the laws, initiatives and programs that impact our freedom.
If as a country, we make a conscience decision not to accept risk but rather "at all costs" institute any and all measures that might protect us from a terrorist attack, we will not remain a free country. We must be willing to accept some risk if we are to preserve our liberty, rights and freedom.
Make no mistake about it. As a country we are giving the federal government the laws and tools (technology) to control us. We have not learned the lessons of the McCarthy era. We also have not learned from our experience while J. Edgar Hoover was the Director of the FBI. We have not learned from the abuses of power witnessed under the Bush administration or those already taking place under the Obama administration.
I do not know what the "trigger" will be the provides government with the "excuse/reason" to take full control. The trigger might be an economic collapse, a terrorist event, a pandemic or even a natural disaster. The fact is a number of possibilities real or imagined exist that can be the trigger. What I do know is once government has power it does not relinquish it.
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