The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, intact for over 200 years, guaranteed that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath of affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. After September 11th, 2001, those were just words on an old piece of paper, no longer a restriction of the Government__ overreaching power to shake down its subjects.
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I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio, 'the plane's hitting,' and I remember thinking my grandfather, who worked for the FBI at the time, was in the Pentagon when the plane hit it...I take the threat of terrorism seriously, and I think we all do. And I think it's really disingenuous for the government to invoke and sort-of scandalize our memories to sort-of exploit the national trauma that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through -- and to justify programs that have never been shown to keep us safe, but cost us liberties and freedoms that we don't need to give up, and that our Constitution says we should not give up.
The USA government sure do like their propaganda feeds! Unfortunately, too much propaganda does create the scenario where no one believes anything that they say. It's just like Pinocchio.
The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs.
Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.
The government wields a heavy hand, which is often used in an underhanded way.
The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'.
You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.
The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.
When the government and electrical utility company jointly harass an electrical fraud researcher, it confirms that the research is progressing in the right direction!
I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama__ government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.
Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.
Police internal affairs is amongst the most corrupt departments that you will find in governments.
Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.
The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.
It is clear that the protective functions of workplace health and safety have transferred to the workers through the process of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of relevant government departments.
I realized that the legal system was corrupt when I went to court and the judge imposed a very short time limit on my evidence submission before removing my legal rights to free speech.
Reigning doctrines are often called a "double standard".The term is misleading.It is more accurate to describe them as a single standard,clear and unmistakable,the standard that Adam Smith called the "vile maxim of the masters of mankind: ...All for ourselves,and nothing for other people." Much has changed since his day,but the vile maxim flourishes.