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Louisiana and Michigan Only Two States Voted Against The Patriot Act. Yes, Your Senator Voted to Spy on You and Call You a Terrorist
Why? Because you might consider thinking that a government of tyrrany is not for you or the fifty million of you on food stamps while Congress feasts on Defence Profits.
Yep. Your Senator voted for the Patriot Act and the recent extensions that allow the government to spy on you: today, through Verizon, Apple, Google and other agencies, National Security makes you a criminal by definition:
(USA PATRIOT ACT) “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” even it you are suspected of thinking about it, the government can “Intercept” all your communications without probable cause for search and seizure.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Thursday pointed to the FISA Amendments Act as justification for PRISM, a secret federal program exposed by the Washington Post on Friday that mines data from Apple, Google, and seven other major tech companies for activity that threatens national security. Collected data include chat logs, emails, social networking data, file transfers, and more.
The FISA Amendments Act allows the federal government to acquire records about individuals without warrants as long as the data collection does not “intentionally target any U.S. citizen, any other U.S. person, or anyone located the U.S.,” Clapper said. He acknowledged that the program includes “incidentally acquired information” about U.S. people when they communicate to other people overseas.
By Chris Kirk
Passed in the wake of Sept. 11, the PATRIOT Act received only one dissenting vote but has since become one of the most controversial bills in recent history. It is the legal basis for a government program exposed by the Guardian on Wednesday that collects the call records of Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint Nextel customers. Every time many Americans make a call, the “NSA gets a record of the location, the number called, the time of the call and the length of the conversation,” according to the Wall Street Journal. The program relies specifically on Section 215, which allows the government to compel organizations to give up certain records, even if the records are about individuals who are not terror suspects.
Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005
With a name like Clapper, who can trust him?