Gazillions. That’s the number of times the federal government has spied on Americans since 9/11 through the use of drones, legal search warrants, illegal search warrants, federal agent-written search warrants and just plain government spying. This is according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who, when he asked the government to tell him what it was doing to violate our privacy, was given a classified briefing. The senator – one of just a few in the U.S. Senate who believes that the Constitution means what it says – was required by federal law to agree not to reveal what spies and bureaucrats told him during the briefing.
The rules for classified briefings of members of Congress on areas of government behavior that the government wants to keep from its employers – the American people – are a real Catch-22. Those rules allow representatives and senators to interrogate government officials about government behavior that they are afraid to reveal, and they require those officials to answer honestly and completely. But the rules keep the interrogations secret, and they expressly prohibit members of Congress from telling anyone what they have learned.
So Paul and his colleagues who joined in the secret briefing now know the terrible truth about the government watching us, but they cannot reveal what they know. Paul – who is the son of Rep. Ron Paul, the greatest congressional defender of limited government in our era – when asked what he learned at these secret briefings and aware that he could be prosecuted for telling the truth, chose a fictitious word to describe the vast number of violations of privacy at the hands of federal agents: gazillions. Paul’s personal courage in using a word like gazillions to convey an oblique message of truth in the face of an unjust law that commanded his silence reminded me of St. Thomas More’s silence in the face of an unjust law that commanded his assent to the king’s headship of the church.
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Every phone call, e mail, text message, are intercepted and sorted through computers to sort you by key words. You are then classified and filed and your file receives attention if if becomes active. There is NO privacy, and judges rubber stamp any warrant to search or spy on you.
If what you say about this, Don, then I suppose I am considered a “domestic terrorist” because I make no bones about my feelings of disgust, and hatred of this baboon in office, and his intentions to destroy us and our country. And, his destruction of our Constitution, on this subject I am also very explicit. So I guess I am tagged as one of those who are “a danger” to my country, because I really dislike to be forced into this evil regime’s plans for what belongs to we, the people of the United States of America. I refuse to support, or kiss his ass. I despise him with every fiber of my being. I wish him gone from my country, and where he goes is not my concern, as long as he leaves here and never looks back, or returns. If he were to die tomorrow, I’d feel no pain nor sorrow at all. My only wish is that whoever should be responsible for such a thing is that they would disappear into the night, never to be heard from or caught. If wishing for his untimely death, or timely, whichever the case may be, makes me a “domestic terrorist” then I accept it. Because I’d rather be a “domestic terrorist”, than a full out TRAITOR TO MY COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLE! So to anyone reading this, you can kiss my lily white rearend! I retain, maintain my freedom to speak my mind. if this is offensive, this is unfortunate for you. I have been insulted, offended for now on 4 years, and I have gotten no apology from anyone who has behaved so offensively, nor do I expect to do so. It is not within their natures to do such a thing, for they would then have to admit that they are guilty of lying to all Americans, and that they have been wrong since the day that they first signed on as the accomplice to this evil, destructive, useless spendthritft in office. And this is to their shame, not mind.
time to take back our goverment….we do not live in england…nor cuba. wake up….the new world order is here.
Agreements to be silent asre flagrant violations of the First Amendment pure and simple. Judges have devised gag order schemes for court cases to preserve fairness in the court, but gag orders on Congressmen and Senators is a flagrant violation of the First Amendment. If there is a "national security" threat, the American People and their Representatives have all the right in the world to know what it is. Executive Privilege is horse hockey as well. No Executive has exclusive right to hide his political actions or behaviors in office from the American People except when it involves perhaps military tactics.