Our loss of privacy was basically flushed down the toilet all in the name of safety and security.
What is alarming is the rate that it has taken place.
This morning I woke up and read the following on Drudge Report…
U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls
WASHINGTON — The Obama
administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program
under which it is collecting business communications records involving
Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to
a highly classified court order disclosed on Wednesday night.
The order, signed by Judge Roger
Vinson of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in April, directs a
Verizon Communications subsidiary, Verizon Business Network Services,
to turn over “on an ongoing daily basis” to the National Security Agency
all call logs “between the United States and abroad” or “wholly within
the United States, including local telephone calls.”
That is not all, come to find out that this collecting of phone calls and such is targeting Americans and not Foreigners.
NSA's Verizon Spying Order Specifically Targeted Americans, Not Foreigners
The National Security Agency has
long justified its spying powers by arguing that its charter allows
surveillance on those outside of the United States, while avoiding
intrusions into the private communications of American citizens. But the
latest revelation of the extent of the NSA’s surveillance shows that it
has focused specifically on Americans, to the degree that its data
collection has in at least one major spying incident explicitly excluded
those outside the United States.
In a top secret order obtained by
the Guardian newspaper and published Wednesday evening, the FBI on the
NSA’s behalf demanded that Verizon turn over all metadata for phone
records originating in the United States for the three months beginning
in late April and ending on the 19th of July. That metadata includes all
so-called “non-content” data for millions of American customers’ phone
calls, such as the subscriber data, recipients, locations, times and
durations of every call made during that period.
Aside from the sheer scope of that
surveillance order, reminiscent of the warrantless wiretapping scandal
under the Bush administration, the other shocking aspect of the order
its target: The order specifically states that only data regarding
calls originating in America are to be handed over, not those between
foreigners.
This is not all that has taken place this past week. There was a critical case that the Supreme Court heard and ruled on that effected the 4th amendment, the unwelcome search and seizure.
Supreme Court OKs Taking DNA From Arrestees
Deciding its biggest genetic
privacy case of the term, a fractured Supreme Court said today that the
states may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for serious crimes.
Privacy groups and law enforcement
officials were closely watching the case because at least 27 states and
the federal government have regulations requiring suspects to give a DNA
sample upon some type of arrest, regardless of conviction. In all the
states with such laws, the DNA records are cataloged in state and
federal crime-fighting databases.
In a 5-4 decision, (.pdf) the
justices reversed a 2012 ruling from Maryland’s top court, which had
said that it was a breach of the Fourth Amendment right against
unreasonable search and seizure to take, without warrants, DNA samples
from suspects who have been arrested for crimes ranging from attempted
burglary to murder. In the end, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that
swabbing the inside of a suspect’s cheek to acquire a DNA sample was “an
advanced technique superior” to fingerprinting, mugshots and even
tattoo matching.
“A DNA profile is useful to the
police because it gives them a form of identification to search the
records already in their valid possession. In this respect the use of
DNA for identification is no different than matching an arrestee’s face
to a wanted poster of a previously unidentified suspect; or matching
tattoos to known gang symbols to reveal a criminal affiliation; or
matching the arrestee’s fingerprints to those recovered from a crime
scene. DNA is another metric of identification used to connect the
arrestee with his or her public persona, as reflected in records of his
or her actions that are available to the police.”
Folks, this means that all an officer has to do is take your ID, which is the first stage of being under arrest / detained, once in that mode, the officer can ask for a DNA sample.
I know that there are some law enforcement officers out there that will disagree. Thing is that the slippery slope has been stepped upon and now there is no going back.
Imagine being stopped on the street by Homeland Security, asked for your ID (papers) and then they whip out a little device and ask to “prove” your identity with a DNA sample. If you do not have one on record, the device will record it and add it to the database.
These two events have changed our privacy rights in a major way.
The powers that be will now know everything you say electronically. Yes, this was for phone records, but it is just another jump to include all electronic devises and forms of communication. What we forget is that the powers that be have been listening in for years now, they just came out of the closet about it.
Finally, it was reviewed the IRS was being used against the American people in a nefarious way and a serious abuse of power. What we are finding out is that the IRS was specifically targeting conservative patriotic Christian Americans as well as conservative Jewish groups.
If you did not vote for the current administration or your group was speaking out against the current administration, your group was targeted for audit, fines, even revoking non-profit status.
What people may not understand is that when a group’s non-profit status is revoked, ALL TAXES since the conception of the non-profit group are then due, and with interest as well.
So you want to wipe out a non-profit group? Yank their non-profit status and let them be responsible for all the back taxes. Can’t pay? Those in charge go to jail.
So we can clearly see that Conservative Christians and Jews need to be concerned.
What? Me, Worry?
Now I know that some of you reading this think that I have my tin foil hat on a little too tight..
Some of you may be saying” Oh it isn’t that bad. They will not target us.”
Yea? Think again.
I got the following from my friend Bill Wilson…
Because You Need To Know
It
is Wednesday afternoon as I write this. I wanted to keep it fresh in my
mind. My wife, son, his girlfriend and I were pulling up to our house
after having a nice lunch together. I noticed a dark BMW pulling up
behind us, waiting for us to walk across the street and I motioned him
on. A Middle Eastern looking man dressed in a casual shirt and jeans
came into my driveway and asked if I was William Wilson. He identified
himself as Amir with the FBI and wanted to know if he could ask me a few
questions. He said that someone under the "See something, say
something" program reported me as a suspicious person perhaps involved
with terrorism. He asked if I was driving a red Camry in April taking
pictures of an oil refinery in Delaware.
He opened my "file" while
explaining that this is not his case, but someone else's. Then he
corrected himself saying that it was not really a "case." He said that
he was undercover and because he lived in Montgomery County, he offered
to do the interview with me instead of having the other agent drive out
from Baltimore. I could see the file. It had my picture, and other
information that I couldn't quite make out. He explained that someone
had reported me taking pictures of a Delaware oil refinery from a red
Camry in April. He asked me several ways if I had a Camry, was in
Delaware in April, and other questions about it. I do not have a Camry,
nor was I ever in Delaware taking pictures of an oil refinery.
He questioned me: Is there anyone
who you have "pissed off" lately? Is there anyone who would have a
reason to turn me in to the FBI. What might I have done to cause this?
Do I hate anybody or [implied] any group of people? Am I against the
government? I told him I am a patriot. I told him that I have written a
column for over 11 years and I am critical of Islamic terrorism, and
some things like the FBI shooting the boy in Orlando. He asked if I ever
get threatened. I told him from time to time I do, but if it gets
serious I tell them I am uncomfortable and will turn them into
authorities if it continues. He assured me that he believed there was
nothing to this complaint and his report would reflect such.
He suggested that I take
precautions such as making sure my address was not on my website. He
also knew what cars I owned and drove. I will say that it was a very
non-threatening type of interview although it is creepy and I wonder
what is next. You need to know because I believe there is safety in
numbers and the more who know, the safer we are. Notwithstanding, I am
calling on the Lord and praying Ephesians 6:17-19, "And take the helmet
of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and
watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all
saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open
my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel." Please pray
for our protection.
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson
Around March of 2012 Tracye and I were sitting in the back yard watching the sun go down. We were talking about the things that are taking place and the concerns we had,
I asked Tracye “What is it that you’re most concerned about?”
She said “Them showing up at our front gate and taking us away.”
Folks, a lump formed in the pit of my stomach that I will never forget. Husbands, how would you feel if your loving wife said that to you in all seriousness and earnest?
It would break your heart.
July 3rd 2013 Tracye and I were returning from running errands. It was about 4:00 in the afternoon and we were coming up on a crest of a hill, once over the hill we can see our house off in the distance.
When I drove over the crest I just happen to look to my left at which time I slammed on the brakes.
Tracye startled said, ”What’s wrong?”
I said “Do I see what I think I am seeing?”
Tracye looked and said “What is that?”
I said “Tracye, I think that is a drone.”
She kind of gasped and looked again. She then agreed with me.
We sat there for about 10 seconds watching it fly by.
When we lived in Texas, we lived within the vicinity of three drone airports. The closest was located in San Marcos Texas, about 10 miles away.
Folks, I have “heard” of people being pulled and questioned like what happened to Bill.
But Bill is the first person that I actually know that this sort of thing has happened too.
I have been warning about these sort of things taking place for a while now.
I have also tried to show historical correlation between what took place during the onset of Nazi Germany and what is taking place in our own nation today.
Daily I am blown away at what is taking place in the country I served, and yet I do not recognize her at all or what she has become.
By Ray Gano
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