...or you may not. Either way, the NSA is spying on your phone records.
Yeah, you, chief.
To be more specific: with the exception of Qwest Communications and some locals, every major telecommunications company serving the US has coughed up their call records - ALL OF THEM - to the NSA, ostensibly so that the NSA can look for them bad evil terrorists.
Qwest, and some of the locals, have refused - despite stiff pressure from the NSA and other government agencies - to comply with warrantless, un-subpoenaed demands for phone records. My Hero.
Now, no doubt some of you are thinking: OMG, how can they possibly get away with this?!?
So are a bunch of our illustrious Congressmen.
I will tell you exactly how they are getting away with this.
BECAUSE THE IDIOT FUCKTARD COCKMONKEYS IN CONGRESS MADE IT LEGAL FOR THEM TO DO SO.
Now, that may seem a bit hard to believe. However, that's only if you haven't actually read the USA-PATRIOT Act. Let me show you. This is the Epic.org copy of the text - it's easier to get to. Here's the Library of Congress page.
Now, see, what you want to read, realllllllly closely, is Title II - Enhanced Surveillance Procedures. This is the part where Congress voted to let the NSA - or anyone else working for the government, pretty much - search your house, car, business, or anything else without providing a warrant except in retrospect, up to 60 days after they searched you in the first place. This is where they made it legal to wiretap, well, everything. They SPECIFICALLY included internet communication, so that the long-running NSA email-reading program is now legal, and can therefore be publicized without real cost to them.
I'm getting tired of the monkey games by Congress. These assholes VOTED FOR THIS LAW. Not once, but several times. Wanna see?
Vote #1 was the original USA-PATRIOT Act itself.
Vote #2. Vote #3.
See what I mean?
Go to the Library of Congress website and search "Popular Titles" for "Patriot." Ignore any further political "we didn't knooooow" posturing, and write to your Representative, and your Senator. Tell them that searching the phone records of millions of Americans is totally against our Constitutional protections under the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure, and the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination.
Tell them to knock it off.
And always remember what the Roman statesman, Marcus Tullius Cicero, said, in the first century B. C. - yeah, that long ago -
Remember, above all things, that never was a government but that was a liar, a thief, and a malefactor.I think he pretty much nailed it, don't you?
No poll today; I'm pretty much just pissed off.
