{"id":67478,"date":"2024-04-21T17:38:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T22:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67478"},"modified":"2024-04-21T17:38:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T22:38:03","slug":"down-with-big-brother-warrantless-surveillance-makes-a-mockery-of-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67478","title":{"rendered":"Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mediaObject\">\n<div class=\"mediaObjectPrimary\">\n<h3 class=\"articleTitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/down_with_big_brother_warrantless_surveillance_makes_a_mockery_of_the_constitution\">Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference &#8230; The Thought Police would get him just the same &#8230; the arrests invariably happened at night &#8230; In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.\u201d\u2014George Orwell,\u00a0<em>1984<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The government long ago sold us out to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<p>The highest bidder, by the way, has always been the Deep State.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s playing out now with the highly politicized tug-of-war over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/what-is-fisa-surveillance-law-in-spotlight\/story?id=109138345\">whether Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act gets reauthorized<\/a>\u00a0by Congress doesn\u2019t just sell us out, it makes us slaves of the Deep State.<\/p>\n<p>Read the fine print: it\u2019s a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/wyden-urges-colleagues-to-reject-expanding-warrantless-fisa-702-surveillance\">doozy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/jun\/07\/patriot-act-violate-privacy\">USA Patriot was perverted from its stated intent to fight terrorism abroad<\/a>\u00a0and was instead used to covertly crack down on the American people (allowing government agencies to secretly track Americans\u2019 financial activities, monitor their communications, and carry out wide-ranging surveillance on them),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/what-is-fisa-surveillance-law-in-spotlight\/story?id=109138345\">Section 702 has been used as an end-run around the Constitution<\/a>\u00a0to allow the government to collect the actual content of your conversations (phone calls, text messages, video chats, emails and other electronic communication) without a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>Now intelligence officials are pushing to dramatically expand the government\u2019s spying powers, effectively giving the government unbridled authority to force millions of Americans to spy on its behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the Deep State wants to turn the American people into extensions of Big Brother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution \u201cWhether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference &#8230; The Thought Police would get him just the same &#8230; the arrests invariably happened at night &#8230; In the vast majority of cases there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[199,6420,5570,31177,827,834],"class_list":["post-67478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-deep-state","tag-john-whitehead","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-nisha-whitehead","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67479,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67478\/revisions\/67479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}