Vatic Note: Now this passage means that all reps who voted for it committed treason to the United States of American, the nation, the Constitution, its governing document and the people. I want to know how many oaths they took when they were sworn in and who were they to. Great Britain? Israel? United Nations??? Who?
Here is what we must do in mass, from all over the country..... call first both of your senators and then your district congressman and ask them point blank, how did you vote (and if its a staffer, you want to know how did the senator vote on THE FREEDOM ACT. Did they vote for it or against it? If for it. Write that down and pass it on, and tell everyone to make sure they vote them out of office on the next election to ensure that never happens again.
Then empanel a citizens grand jury and get an indictment for treason, then notify the senator they are a defendant on a trial based on his vote. Tell them the time and place of the trial and I guarantee you, he/she won't show up, But that is ok, you then proceed without him, empanel a regular jury, provide the evidence and prove you notified him of the trial and he is refusing to show up, so then proceed and render a verdict.
If its guilty, send that notice around to all the press, and to the defendant, both MSM and alternative, so its on the record and that would preserve the lives of those who took part in it. Once the verdict is rendered preserve all the documents and evidence and hide it with only 3 of you knowing where it is and never tell anyone which 3 it is.
Then when we have our Nuremberg trials, the only thing left is the fulfillment of the sentencing. By golly, if we no longer have a government that we control that will follow the rule of law, then we take it back and do it ourselves until we finish cleaning house of all foreign operatives, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO AIPAC, and their treasonous white house and congressional operatives and start over again. The more we let pass, the more they push the limit, so its time to let them know, no more passing on crimes against people, property and financial. All will be prosecuted and sentencing will be conducted.
Who ever offed those 72 bankers, is owed a debt of gratitude.
FREEDOM Act Passes, Effectively Kills Freedom
http://www.activistpost.com/2015/06/freedom-act-passes-effectively-kills.html
By Brandon Turbeville, Activist Post, June 4, 2015
With the passage of the USA FREEDOM Act,
mainstream media outlets
and even some “privacy advocates” are hailing the passage of the bill
as a welcome step forward and a sign of defeat for the USA PATRIOT Act,
the bill that was itself passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and
widely representative of the United States’ rapid descent into outright
police state tyranny.
Unfortunately, however, the passage of the FREEDOM Act is no victory for
freedom. In fact, is an insultingly sound nail in freedom’s coffin.
The bill, which has been promoted and supported by many of the same
members of Congress that supported the PATRIOT Act (notably, James
Sensenbrenner) now comes on the heels of a 2nd US Circuit Court decision
that bulk telecommunications data collection was not authorized by the
PATRIOT Act, unconstitutional, and therefore an illegal act.
To be sure, the FREEDOM Act has been in the works for passage since 2013
when lawmakers began pushing it. At the time, the bill attempted to
actually extend the PATRIOT Act provisions through the end of 2017 as
well as maintain a number of violations of civil liberties and privacy
concerns.
The new version of the FREEDOM Act is no better, except perhaps in the language being used to promote it.
When the 2nd Circuit Court ruled that the PATRIOT Act
did not authorize the bulk collection of data nationwide and that doing
so violates the Constitution,
it essentially made the actions of the
NSA and the rest of the US intelligence apparatus illegal. The FREEDOM
Act does nothing to punish or prevent intelligence agencies who have
been illegally wiretapping innocent Americans.
In fact, it has simply
legalized the process.
According to Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute,
the bill is able to legalize the storage and collection of bulk data by
putting the responsibility upon the back of the major
telecommunications companies who will be tasked with doing just that –
storing and retaining all data – for future use by intelligence
agencies. This data must be turned over to the agencies upon request.
It
is, essentially, the privatization of mass surveillance.
These Telecom giants who will now be in charge of the data collection have
worked hand in glove
with intelligence agencies for some time. Now the law will require them
to do so. Of course, it should be remembered that, at the top levels of
many corporations, the surveillance and intelligence apparatus along
with the capitalist and governing corporate boards are often one and the
same.
Daniel McAdams makes four points about how the FREEDOM Act influences the collection of data in the private sphere. He writes,
1) The recent decision
of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the bulk collection of
American citizens' telecommunications information was not authorized by
the USA PATRIOT Act means that as of this afternoon, the bulk collection
of American citizens' telecommunications information was an illegal
act. The government was breaking the law each time it grabbed our
metadata. The moment the FREEDOM Act is signed by President Obama that
same activity will become legal. How is making an unconstitutional and
illegal act into a legal one a benefit to civil liberties?
2) The FREEDOM Act turns private telecommunications companies into
agents of state security. They will be required to store our personal
information and hand it over to state security organs upon demand. How
do we know this development is a step in the wrong direction? It is reportedly
the brainchild of Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the NSA director at the
time! According to press reports, this was but a public relations move
to deflect criticism of the bulk collection program. Alexander "saw the
move as a way for Obama to respond to public criticism without losing
programs the NSA deemed more essential,"reports Homeland Security News.
3)
The FREEDOM Act turns private telecommunications companies into
depositories of "pre-crime" data for future use of state security
agencies. It is a classic authoritarian move for the state to co-opt and
subsume the private sector. Once the FREEDOM Act is signed, Americans'
telecommunications information will be retained by the
telecommunications companies for the use of state security agencies in
potential future investigations. In other words, an individual under no
suspicion of any crime and thus deserving full Fourth and Fifth
Amendment protection will nevertheless find himself providing evidence
against his future self should that person ever fall under suspicion.
That is not jurisprudence in a free society.
4) The FREEDOM Act provides liability protection
for the telecommunications firms who steal and store our private
telecommunications information. In other words, there is not a thing you
can do about the theft as long as the thief is a "private" agent of the
state.
In addition, the bill leaves loopholes in language wide enough you could
drive a truck through. For instance, it does not define the term
“Direct connection,” which would allow the NSA to access data on
Americans through their smartphones via private providers, which would
largely be seen as an expansion of NSA power, despite the fact that
limits on power have never really been a concern to the NSA before.
While the bill has been presented as the negation of Section 215 of the
PATRIOT Act, used by the Bush and Obama administrations to legally
justify bulk data collection, the bill merely makes the telecom
companies the first level collators of this information, with
intelligence agencies able to request data from them at any time based
on keywords (presumably
like the myriad of publicly admitted words used for surveillance triggers today).
Despite deciding to support the bill,
ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer stated
that
“This bill would make only incremental improvements, and at least
one provision—the material-support provision—would represent a
significant step backwards. The disclosures of the last two years make
clear that we need wholesale reform.”
Another organization that supported the bill (but
“hoped that congress improved it”) was the
Center for Democracy and Technology who admitted that the so-called limits to the PATRIOT Act provisions were virtually non-existent. It stated,
"The USA FREEDOM Act of 2015 is not as comprehensive as CDT would prefer,
and leaves several problems unaddressed. Notably, the bill omits an
important provision that was present in the version Sen. Leahy
introduced in 2014. The Senate 2014 bill – which CDT supported, but
which failed to proceed in the Senate – would have required the
government to limit the retention of information about individuals with
no connection to a suspect or foreign power. This “enhanced
minimization” language would have helped mitigate privacy problems
raised by surveillance that is not “bulk collection.” In addition, the
new bill’s transparency provisions require scant reporting on
surveillance conducted under Sec. 702 of FISA."
Even more revealing, however, is
an article written by Shane Harris of the Daily Beast in the weeks leading up to the passage of the FREEDOM Act. Harris writes,
"Civil libertarians and privacy advocates were applauding yesterday after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed legislation to stop the National Security Agency from collecting Americans’ phone records. But they’d best not break out the bubbly.
The really big winner here is the NSA. Over at its headquarters in Fort
Meade, Maryland, intelligence officials are high-fiving, because they
know things could have turned out much worse.
“What no one wants to say out loud is that this is a big win for the
NSA, and a huge nothing burger for the privacy community,” said a former
senior intelligence official, one of half a dozen who have spoken to
The Daily Beast about the phone records program and efforts to change
it.
Here’s the dirty little secret that many spooks are loath to utter
publicly, but have been admitting in private for the past two years: The
program, which was exposed in documents leaked by Edward Snowden in
2013, is more trouble than it’s worth.
“It’s very expensive and very cumbersome,” the former official said. It
requires the agency to maintain huge databases of all Americans’
landline phone calls. But it doesn’t contribute many leads on
terrorists. (VN: that is because the "terrorists" are the ones collecting the data.... what did anyone expect.) It has helped prevent few—if any—attacks. And it’s nowhere
near the biggest contributor of information about terrorism that ends up
on the desk of the president and other senior decision makers.
[...]
The
bill that the House passed yesterday, called the USA Freedom Act,
doesn’t actually suspend the phone records program. Rather, it requires
that phone companies, not the NSA, hold on to the records.
“Good! Let them take them. I’m tired of holding on to this,” a current
senior U.S. official told The Daily Beast. It requires teams of lawyers
and auditors to ensure that the NSA is complying with Section 215 of the
Patriot Act, which authorizes the program, as well as internal
regulations on how the records can and can’t be used, he said. The phone
records program has become a political lightning rod, the most
controversial of all the classified operations that Snowden exposed. If
the NSA can still get access to the records but not have to hold on to
them itself, all the better, the senior official said.
