1913... Hannelore Morton> The “war on terror” proved a catchy enough phrase that most of Congress decided the Patriot Act – simply a law passed by Congress authorizing a secret court, secret hearings, secret evidence and secret findings – trumped the Constitution’s limits on federal power. Companies could be coerced to provide information about their customers and prosecuted if they revealed the coercion. Everything was secret. So who would know? Those few who did could be sworn to secrecy and prosecuted for violating their oath. The Constitution? Well, the secret court would interpret that. What could possibly go wrong? It was good old reliable Maxine Waters who spoke in February about a database that Obama had built for Democrats that was unlike anything you can imagine. It knows everything about everybody. Yup. it’s amazing what an unlisted budget of $80 billion a year for a couple of decades can buy. An entire nation, it would seem. Congress alone holds the remedy. They can stop the money tomorrow. They can pull the plug on the Utah data center. But who knows how many congressmen and aides are already being blackmailed over petty nonsense. So shut off the money. Figure it out. And fix it. And don’t turn the money or the electricity back on until you have fixed it. That is our only hope. The road to hell really is paved with good intentions. We have finally arrived.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 18:16:18 +0000
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