The most awful thing being reported is something I have long suspected and is something every American should be worried about. Turns out not only is the NSA spying on you but so is the DEA. Reuters recently uncovered documents that show that federal agents would recreate situations to explain how they came up with information. Instead of illegal, secret recording being the source, they would hide behind a mythical CI whose identity they would refuse to identify. Nevermind the fact that everything about this is illegal from wiretapping without a warrant to hiding the identity of a person's accuser, the possibility for abuse from this program is astounding.
I always found it odd that people like Elliot Spitzer and Rod Blogovitch got shoved under the bus just as they both were to start investigations into banking irregularities. Yes both were doing illegal things but none of that came to light until they started poking their nose into Big Banking and got spanked seconds later. What if this information had been gathered during illegal wiretaps and then used for the purposes later of blackmail, extortion, or forcing someone from office? I am not saying what either of these two weren't doing wasn't illegal, but I do find the timing that these issues odd as they both were announcing big investigations into banking fraud when the hammer came down.
But now the DEA is wiretapping us all to see who has illegal drugs which is NONE OF THEIR DAMN BUSINESS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Our prisons have enough people in them, let's not add to the problem and do it in an underhanded, illegal way first. Here's part of the story from Reuters:
A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.
…The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to “recreate” the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant’s Constitutional right to a fair trial. If defendants don’t know how an investigation began, they cannot know to ask to review potential sources of exculpatory evidence – information that could reveal entrapment, mistakes or biased witnesses.
“I have never heard of anything like this at all,” said Nancy Gertner,… “It is one thing to create special rules for national security,” Gertner said. “Ordinary crime is entirely different. It sounds like they are phonying up investigations.”
So the US government is complicit in depriving American citizens of the rights as given to us by the Constitution and no one seems to care. You will when that black helicopter whisks you away in the middle of the night because your lawn isn't mowed, you failed to recycle or some other innocuous reason. Talk to anyone who lived in Nazi Germany or Stalin's Russia to get some idea of what awaits us if we don't put an immediate stop to this type of abuse.
They have destroyed the Constitution, leaving only the 2nd partially intact but is in effect toothless as police departments are becoming more and more militarized which will be then used to subjugate an angry public. We should be fighting for less gun laws not more. Whatever the police have, so should the average citizen. That has to be the law to prevent the coming tyranny we face. We can be killed without a trial or, even worse, thrown into a hole, and never let out. All the have to say is the words "enemy combatant," and you are toast. These protections have existed since 1215 when the Magna Carta was signed. Bush and Obama have eliminated this idea of a fair trial and due process. It can and will be used against all of us one day.
And the fact that our wages are falling further and further mean that the chances for riots to break out in a full on economic collapse are increasing daily. Recent studies show that a person making minimum wage in 1968 made more money than the average full time worker today, which now comprises 40% of the public. So 40% make less now than a low wage worker in the 60's made. Terrific. As the minimum wage is no longer a livable wage, corporations are forcing us to compete against workers halfway across the globe that will work for a buck a day and no benefits. As automation also eliminates many jobs, we are in quite the pickle. We need to end outsourcing, raise the minimum wage and tie corporate profits into salary gains or else face extinction.
Now that the DHS has their octopus tentacles into everything, controlling live music and children's magic shows even, the government is inserting themselves into all of our lives. They can even listen in on cell phones or landlines whenever they want, hack into smart TV's to watch us, and know every aspect of our lives no matter how personal or embarrassing and are using it for their own advantage. It already appears that they are just like J Edgar Hoover, using the info they acquire for the own ends. This is not American anymore but the Soviet States of the US. How do you feel about that, comrade?
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