Monday, June 24, 2013

Rights

Amendment IV
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 or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Bill of Rights, first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

A world turned upside down.

Whistle-blowing citizens who reveal massive surveillance programs that would certainly be viewed as unconstitutional by the writers of the Constitution now flee to Moscow to protect themselves.

 They are fleeing the nation that locks up more of its citizens than any other.
 They are fleeing the nation that conducts surveillance on its citizens.
 They are fleeing the nation that sends in undercover police to any opposition political movements.
 They are fleeing the nation that has massive, militarized police forces.
 They are fleeing the nation that sends in riot police to break up protests.
 They are fleeing the nation that sends agents abroad to kidnap people.
 They are fleeing the nation that operates secret prisons.
 They are fleeing the nation that supports, teaches and utilizes torture at home and abroad.
 They are fleeing the nation that blocks opposition political parties with a 2-party only political system.
 They are fleeing the nation that keeps hundreds of people indefinitely detained without even a kangaroo court military trial at Guantanamo.
 They are fleeing the nation that charges elderly priests and nuns with sabotage for protesting illegal nuclear weapons programs.
 They are fleeing the nation that claims the right to indefinitely detain its citizens.
 They are fleeing the nation that claims the right to murder its citizens.

 When I grew up, Moscow was the capital of the Evil Empire. How the world has changed.
 
 Ecuador has received asylum request from NSA whistleblower Snowden - FM Patino