how the hell do we bell the tyger?
Jun. 16th, 2013 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psybelleDamn. Now it's content as well as "just metadata"...
This is clearly unconstitutional.
Grayson is wonderful, and he's not a lone voice in questioning the current practices. But I don't know if there's enough support behind him to actually roll back any of the excesses of the current surveillance binge... The NSA seems to have rubberstamp approval for just about anything it wants (read as absolute power) and has absolutely been corrupted by it; when non-violent dissenters (like #occupy) and vocal environmentalists are targeted, you know that the main concern is protecting the power base of the organization rather than the country as a whole.
Dissent is not a criminal act. Protest is not a criminal act. And expecting our elected officials to uphold their oaths to defend the Constitution and serve the people should not be naive idealism...
This is clearly unconstitutional.
Grayson is wonderful, and he's not a lone voice in questioning the current practices. But I don't know if there's enough support behind him to actually roll back any of the excesses of the current surveillance binge... The NSA seems to have rubberstamp approval for just about anything it wants (read as absolute power) and has absolutely been corrupted by it; when non-violent dissenters (like #occupy) and vocal environmentalists are targeted, you know that the main concern is protecting the power base of the organization rather than the country as a whole.
Dissent is not a criminal act. Protest is not a criminal act. And expecting our elected officials to uphold their oaths to defend the Constitution and serve the people should not be naive idealism...