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Senate and Neocons Agree to Carve Up Bill of Rights
by Kurt Nimmo
 It’s now official, the entire Senate is criminally complicit in undermining the Fourth Amendment.
“ Senate Democrats and Republicans reached agreement with the Bush administration yesterday on the terms of new legislation to control the federal government’s domestic surveillance program, which includes a highly controversial grant of legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have assisted the program, according to congressional sources,” reports the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post.
In standard doublespeak fashion, the Post is attempting to put
the best face on the fact the Senate has dealt the telecoms a get out
of jail free card. It is, as well, typical that the Post characterizes
the legislation as a “control” mechanism when in fact it is a blank
check. Of course, this hardly matters, as the NSA has worked with the
telecoms for decades to subvert the constitutional rights of Americans,
who are basically none the wiser when it comes down to the fact the
government is a police state, long engaged in snooping of the sort
Germany’s Stasi employed.
“Disclosure of the deal followed a
decision by House Democratic leaders to pull a competing version of the
measure from the floor because they lacked the votes to prevail over
Republican opponents and GOP parliamentary maneuvers.” In other words,
Democrats, who are a Senate majority, disrespect the Constitution and
the Bill of Rights to the same disgusting degree as the neocon
Republicans, and are thus as criminal. Naturally, this is nothing new,
as you can turn your garden variety Democrat upside down and he or she
will look identical to a Republican, never mind the corporate media
turning somersaults in an effort to get us to buy into supposed
differences, the very framework of the phony left-right paradigm on
Capitol Hill. Millions of Americans—from your Rush Limbaugh Republican
to your MoveOn Democrat—buy into this nonsense, apparently unable to
break free of the voodoo trance of the corporate media buttressed
fiction of ideological differences.
Said neocon traitor and
so-called House Minority leader John A. Boehner: “There is absolutely
no reason our intelligence officials should have to consult government
lawyers before listening into terrorist communications with the likes
of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and other foreign terror groups.”
Translation: there is no reason the neocons should have to follow the
Constitution and rule of law when snooping the phone calls and internet
communication of millions of Americans. As we know, Osama is dead and
“al-Qaeda and other foreign terrorist groups” are covertly—or not so
covertly—organized, financed, and unleashed by the CIA, MI6, Mossad,
indeed the entire “intelligence” monolith, legendary for spinning off
useful terrorist groups. Moreover, as a well-read tenth grader might
tell you, the NSA engages in the vacuum cleaner approach to
“intelligence gathering,” not pinpoint monitoring of “al-Qaeda” phone
calls made from a pay phone in Ship Bottom, New Jersey.
More
than anything, this “agreement” (criminal conspiracy) was reached in
order to protect multinational telecoms, open to “pending lawsuits
alleging violations of privacy rights by telecommunications companies
that provided telephone records, summaries of e-mail traffic and other
information to the government after Sept. 11, 2001, without receiving
court warrants.” Of course, the Senate and House were long ago turned
into whorehouse parlors for transnational corporations, so this really
is not surprising. Question is, how long will the government continue
the charade there is actually legal recourse for Americans when the
Constitution is so egregiously violated? How long before we are pitched
into full-fledged decider-commander guy fascism?
“Senate
Democrats successfully pressed for a requirement that the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Court review the government’s procedures for
deciding who is to be the subject of warrantless surveillance,” the
CIA’s favorite fish wrapper continues. “They also insisted that the
legislation be renewed in six years, Democratic congressional officials
said. The Bush administration had sought less stringent oversight by
the court and wanted the law to be permanent.”
In other words,
treasonous Democrats want to continue the illusion that the
“constitutional compromise” FISA Court is legal, when in fact is it is
a long-standing violation of the Fourth Amendment, as all surveillance
must follow probable cause with a court order. But then bogus “special
needs” categories, mutating from the unconstitutional province of drunk
driving checkpoints and random drug tests to the federal government as
a whole, are the rule of the day. As previously noted, “highly
intrusive and wholly discretionary warrantless wiretapping” is nothing
new, as the NSA has worked with the telecoms since at least the 1940s.
Even
so-called “civil libertarians” are not dedicated to the original
principles held in the Bill of Rights, preferring to play footsy with
“conservatives,” i.e., fascist corporatists (an admitted redundancy),
and sell the Constitution out lock, stock, and barrel. “Most Democratic
lawmakers and party members—backed by civil libertarians and even some
conservatives—wanted the new legislation to ensure for example that
future domestic surveillance in foreign-intelligence-related
investigations would be overseen by the foreign surveillance court. The
court was created in response to CIA and FBI domestic spying abuses
unmasked in the mid-1970s.” Of course, these exposed “spying abuses”
were an aberration—a sign of the times, part of the outrage over
Watergate and government criminality—and the CIA and FBI are feeling
much better now, knowing that there are few if any people in government
willing to unmask current abuses, that is to say long term and ongoing
and endemic abuses.
“But conservative Democrats worried about
Republicans’ charges that the Democratic bill extended too many rights
to suspected terrorists,” that is to say the American people, a few who
actually believe they have an intact Constitution, as there are no
“suspected terrorists” on phone lines, or rather no genuine terrorists,
simply government plants and clueless patsies, programmed to exude an
air of terrorist scariness, no matter how absurd as it emanates from
remote caves (complete with kidney dialysis machines and internet
servers) and MI6 sponsored mosques or ISI facilitated religious schools.
Finally,
in order to better understand the fascistic character of our rulers,
consider Rep. Louie Gohmert, who blathered: the supposed Democrat horse
trading compromise “extends our Constitution beyond American soil to
our enemies who want to cut the heads off Americans.” Of course, this
is ridiculous, and what Gohmert intended to say is that the
Constitution itself is no longer required, is in fact dangerous, as it
provides black op terrorists with an excuse to cut off our heads, a
colorful if entirely fallacious allusion.
But never mind, none
of this matters, as the average American is wholly bereft of any sense
of loss, and in fact it can be argued he or she does not need the
Fourth Amendment as more than likely they will chime “I don’t got
nothing to hide,” so why all the fuss? It was like this when Martin
Niemoeller supposedly made his famous claim in Nazi Germany. “First
they came for the Jews,” and then everybody else, but then it was too
late.
Dare I say it is too late in America? Our once cherished,
now ignored and largely unknown, Constitution and Bill of Rights are
dead numbers. The NSA, CIA, FBI, et al, may snoop on us at will,
without legal or moral hindrance, not that it matters to the masses.
Most will not receive visits by the Ministry of Homeland Security,
receive national security letters, or be sent packing to a FEMA camp,
if it ever comes to that. Most will, however, suffer the results, as
did the people of Germany—roundly fire-bombed, defeated, and reviled
around the world for years to come.
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