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The U.S. president has signed into law a bill that extends the government’s warrantless spying powers for two years. Joe Biden signed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after it passed the Senate by 60 against 34 votes.
The move was slammed by privacy advocates inside and outside of Congress. They said that it allows intel agencies to spy on the communications of non-U.S. citizens, including communications on such service providers as Google. The activist group Demand Progress said the law is a dangerous tool in the hands of many presidents and a historic mark of shame. The Brennan Center for Justice also said the law is shameful and is a gift to any president who would wish to spy on political enemies, journalists, and ideological opponents.
Kevin Barrett is a political commentator who joins us from Saidia in Morocco. Welcome to the program. So when you take a look at why the U.S. is compelled to spy on its citizens and communications, whether it’s online or what have you, isn’t there a sense of paranoia that’s behind it? And how much does that infringe on people’s privacy?
That’s right. The government of the United States today—which is really an illegal and unconstitutional regime that’s usurped the American Republic—has every reason to be paranoid. Because they have no legitimacy. And the reason they have no legitimacy is precisely that they have overthrown the United States constitutional republic and replaced it with a kind of imperial, militarized, corporate fascist regime.
The United States Constitution very clearly bans “unreasonable searches and seizures.” That’s in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. That’s always been interpreted as demanding that the authorities get a specific search warrant for any kind of surveillance of anybody in the United States before actually collecting any information. And that search warrant has to be requested from a judge. The judge has to verify the specifics of the individual case before the government is allowed to spy. There has to be probable cause that a crime has been committed. Otherwise, the United States government, if it were a legitimate constitutional government, would not be allowed to spy on anyone without each of those specific warrants. That’s the way the law has always been interpreted in the United States until the the republic was overthrown by this criminal cabal that rules today through all sorts of illegal measures, including blackmail of leaders. Jeffrey Epstein, of course, worked for the Israeli Mossad, blackmailing American leaders for this deep state criminal organization that currently rules.
So they’re paranoid because they know they’re illegitimate. And if the people ever wake up and notice that they’re being ruled by a gang of ruthless, psychopathic criminals, that will be the end. All these people will be hanged or guillotined. The French Revolution will look like a tea party compared to what will happen when the American people see what’s been done to their republic.
So that’s why these criminals need to spy on everybody. And that’s what this law allows them to do without any warrants, without any legal process or due process of law. Under this law, anybody who has equipment that can be used to transmit or store electronic communications must cooperate with the authorities in turning over everything they have.
So that means that’s the end of the Constitutional Republic. And people like Attorney General Merrick Garland are cheering for this big brother Orwellian measure. He’s one of the world’s worst criminals. He was in charge of the cover-up of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. He probably participated in the planning of that bombing itself, murdering hundreds of children in the daycare center in Oklahoma City. He’s a child murderer, just like the Zionists and the rest of this criminal cabal of blackmailing pedophiles that own the United States. They’d better be watching everybody, because they are hated so much. They’re so illegitimate that they will all be executed the minute that the American people wake up.
And if we want to take a look at the different online platforms, whether social media or search engines…everything gets recorded, right? And the social media platforms like Facebook or like Instagram—these are a gift to the CIA, I’m assuming. They are using it to basically find out what each individual is doing. Isn’t that correct in terms of them using those platforms also to basically monitor whoever they want?
Absolutely. Social media as they exist in the United States are a self surveillance regime that these monstrous criminals have deliberately designed to trick people into giving up their data. And the people who run these so-called social media digital prisons, gulags, are making money by stealing people’s data. And they were laughing at the dumb F-words, as Mark Zuckerberg put it, who are stupid enough to use the social media and turn over all their data.
So, again, these are criminals. This is not a legitimate government. And the minute the American people see that, those people are finished.
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This one deserves the Ezra Pound Award for Civic Participation. No bullshit statist catchphrases for Barrett, just the facts. The CIA/Mossad regime is a criminal enterprise, illegitimate, and in law no longer sovereign. They are hostis humani generis, enemies of all humanity, foreign and domestic, mine, yours, everybody’s. They have got to be excised. The world is on it.
Fortunately, a rigidly hierarchical failed state is easy to decapitate and replace. Especially for UN member nations with insuperable qualitative advantages in nonballistic hypersonic missiles, combined arms doctrine, defense industrial base, critical commodities, and civil defense. Particularly when they are 96% of everybody in the world.
Back when CIA snitch William Sloane Coffin denounced US criminality, CIA tried to put him away with some bullshit charge. So heads up. Bone up on Francis Boyle’s Civil Resistance.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742538924/Protesting-Power-War-Resistance-and-Law
These CIA/Mossad psychos are going to end up hanged or in Dolphin Prison, either before or after WW III ends. It is in our interest to do the Yeltsin-on-the-tank thing now so they don’t get us nuked. Sure you can see them clamping down to hole up here in their Hitlterbunkers. But they’ve pissed off too many people who know how to knock a government over.
So a cell phone.
Zionists and their oligarchs are psychopaths. We knew that here on Unz. But most people don’t know that. They think they’re just “poor, persecuted Jews and the heroic masters of the universe protecting them!”
True, this trauma-based brainwashing process has been going on ever since the first sadistic and psychopathic rabbi got his filthy paws on a scalpel and began carving (genital mutilating) his tribe into subservience, but ZOG has expanded its territory worldwide.
The last territory to mount a serious challenge to these Zionists and their cowed zoglodytes was uncircumcized, Christian Germany. Now, uncircumcised Christian Russia has thrown down the gauntlet.
These psychopaths will either get you with the blade or with the Golden Calf Ponzi (Zionist fiat currency racket).
But Moses-Christian civilization has its own weapons, and is beginning to use them to cut these psycho kikes down to size, on the way to eliminating them entirely.
Keep cutting, little kikey …clip, clip, clip…you’re slicing your own path into hell, you homicidal control freak psychopath serial killer.
To motivate this evident panic, we can see dissension in the NATO satellites.
Check out this pedo CIA worm, securely blackmailed for reliable control, and Britain goes and fucks it up!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/former-obama-white-house-senior-policy-advisor-charged-child-sex-offenses
Policy advisor, huh huh huh. That shop at Treasury is dotted-line report to CIA. And Army Reserves, yeah sure. Sheep-dipped. Then a NOC at Citibank. He coulda been CIA’s next Epstein.
Yes these orc proto-totalitarianists are going to have to be dealt with ruthlessly..
Whilst nobody here (and I could support my brand of authoritarianism too) is championing the surveillance states like China, Belarus, North Korea and Russia, for monitoring their populations, it’s still funny when people complain about the US following in their footsteps. This is what governments love to do.
Who is so carefree to blindly trust, and not assume his communications to be tapped/eavesdropped upon? Prepare for the worst like it was East Germany, and optimistically hope for the best. Nobody will defend the privacy, and keep your secrets for you. Any topic more sensitive than weather, and my grandmother wouldn’t talk about it over the phone- bugs, and dark vans parked in front of the house, she did not think about, but she wasn’t on any black-watchlist.
In the US you can protect yourself legally, you can implement secure lines of communication. Though, theoretically any encryption can be broken with enough computational power. Russians have been confiscating PinePhone shipments on their border, and prohibiting the sale of IP phones with even really weak (unencrypted! SDES) session key exchange protocols.
This is wishful thinking. Legitimacy is an irrelevancy to our Jewish masters. Indeed, democracy is that form of government wherein the people have no right to complain about the actions of the Jews who steal the jiggered elections in which the people naively participate and who then appoint the Jewish judges who summarily dismiss all attempts to seek redress through the courts.
The original FISA Act and its warrantless searches were the subjects of many lawsuits, on Fourth Amendment grounds and others. If anyone knows offhand of any suits that were successful, I would be glad to learn about them. I would also be amazed.
The Fourth Amendment, like the First, has become a dead letter in US governance and jurisprudence. The Fifth has been a dead letter a lot longer: since 1992, when the second trial in the Rodney King case partially undid the acquittals that came out of the first.
It’s important to remember that the internet is a special military operation.
I’ve been the “surveillance state whacko” for a long time now. I’d say the most common response to my protestations has been “nothing to hide, no worries” but the thing is, firstly, this is about privacy (and the dignity and responsibility that comes with it,) and secondly that such a rebuttal applies to one being in a scenario where their finger is already on your pulse in real-time.
The more serious concern is the PASSIVE collection. It can allow for entrapment, character sabotage and blackmail. For example, data mining can harvest selected fragments of one’s data and assemble a false portrait that may paint a picture of one to the leverage of the parties involved. But it’s Amazon or Microsoft’s mining software for what was stored on their clouds, so put up or shut up because they’re also contracted with your local donut eater and the aviator glasses alike.
Every single one of your “Ring” owning neighbors is a potential friend to your local donut eater and likely the aviator glasses. Think about it: the surveillance state is EXPANDING at the same time petty crime is being ALLOWED to spread, with all the fear/anxiety that comes with it.
So much activity has been funneled into the big tech Media giants (especially since the devolution of the human being with “Smart Phones”) where you’re pretty much required to shake your ass for the screen no matter what the age. Full exposure alongside the elimination of privacy and boundaries in a centralized framework is the game, in my opinion. Microsoft paid off billions for passively collecting the information, including voice chats of, kids under 13 on their Xbox Live gaming service just in 2023. The surveillance state is a terrible place to be.
https://news.softpedia.com/news/intel-x86-cpus-come-with-a-secret-backdoor-that-nobody-can-touch-or-disable-505347.shtml
The constitution’s been dead for a while. Lincoln violated it during the Secessionist War. It’s better to use one’s own judgement even if there were strict privacy laws on the books. WWIII will bring an entirely new world order after the dust has settled.
I share your curiosity and pessimism.
Hedges v Obama involved a challenge to a similarly pernicious provision of the National Defense Authorization Act. Wikipedia:
Standing. So unless you’re willing to be criminally charged, we won’t tell you who you’re allowed to talk to — shut up, and sit down.
Another example of the three
brancheshands washing each other and using the Constitution as a towel.Precisely, Greta. Yet it ought to be obvious that, ipso facto, every American citizen has standing to sue when another American’s Fourth Amendment protections have been abrogated. If the government can do it to one citizen, no citizen is safe.
The appellate courts are clearly aware that the Supreme Court has largely lost interest in citing Constitutional safeguards to protect citizens from government overreach. The only amendment that the Supremes seem concerned with is the Fourteenth, the one that was never lawfully ratified!
The fact that the majority of Republicans didn’t jump on the Marjorie Greene bandwagon and remove speaker Johnson immediately shows how brought and paid for the Congress is.
A little toad could easily be replaced as speaker by a barking dog if necessary…it seems to make no difference who is in the role when the Congress are all of like minds except for a few independent thinkers.
The Congress are no different from the retainers of the old royal houses who knew what the king or queen wanted without needing to ask…same as those journalist know what Murdoch wants without him stating it.
The ship called SS America continues to sink and the so called peoples representatives are bailing in the wrong direction.
If Bowie was alive today and was writing a song about the Ukraine after seeing all the new graves popping up there, could he write “we are the young Ukrainians?” Could he find a young Ukrainian inside Ukraine?