THRASHING THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Yesterday the President, while speaking at a joint press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada made the following statement, “I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress”. I have to wonder what this has to do with Mexico and Canada and why it would be of interest to them.

More importantly, the question which comes to mind is why does our President who claims to be a “Constitutional law expert” not understand that the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches share “equal power”? The President further thrashed the Supreme Court when he questioned how an “unelected group of people” could overturn a law approved by Congress and that to do so would be an “unprecedented abuse of power”. This comes from a constitutional Law Professor? How is it "unprecedented"? Congress passes laws and if there is a question about their legality the questions are brought before the SCOTUS for review and legal ruling. There are many examples of unconstitutional laws which were passed by congress being overturned. Since when is it an “abuse of power” to overturn an unconstitutional law? In fact, isn’t this the reason the SCOTUS exists?

I find his statement appalling, especially considering this is the President who said last December, “What I’m not going to do is wait for Congress. So whenever we have an opportunity and I have the executive authority to go ahead and get some things done, we’re just going to go ahead and do them”. He is doing this irrespective of whether the people’s duly elected representatives have a say in the matter. Why isn’t the Presidents circumvention of congress considered an abuse of power?

The President went on to state that the “Act” was passed by an overwhelming majority. I am not going to quibble about what constitutes an overwhelming majority, but as I recall the vote in the house was 219 to 212. Personally I don’t consider this to be an “overwhelming majority”. In fact, the bill was only able to be passed in the dead of night by virtue of a manipulation of an arcane rule of the Senate. In reality, a legitimate case can be made that the method in which it was passed is an abuse of power perpetrated against the American citizens. This abuse was answered in the 2010 election when the citizens of America voted overwhelmingly to remove candidates who voted in favor of the Obama cares Act. It seems more reasonable to infer that a clear majority of the American people are not in favor of the Presidents signature legislation.

Due to the majority he enjoyed in the legislative branch and the legislative leaders willingness to push his initiatives using any method possible, the President has ruled with impunity. He has pushed his agenda without any consideration of the constitutionality of his actions. Come June when the court rules on the legality of the “Obama Cares Act” it may just be the time for President Obama to find that his abuse of the Constitution has been stopped in its tracks.

Beware, Big Brother is here.

After reading the entirety of the Patriot Act and I concluded that the Act unconstitutionally deprived American citizens of our liberty. Now, after completing my reading of the NDAA I am sure of it. The Patriot Act and the NDAA give the Department of Homeland Security authority to collect data from all US citizens in order to protect the country from home grown terrorism. NSA has been placed under the jurisdiction of DHS and thereby has its authority extended to all private citizens of the US. This and other intel agencies can and are collecting data on every citizen in the United States. Read the Acts, both of them and you will see that it has been authorized.

Now I agree that the NSA is not taping every phone conversation and never said that they are. What they are doing, outside of congressional oversight and authorization, is building the 3rd largest military operations facility in the country for the express purpose of collecting and storing electronic data on every citizen in the United States. They wouldn't be going to the trouble and expense if they weren't going to utilize these developed resources. Oh, and for the record, the estimated cost of this facility is 2 BILLION US tax dollars. In other words, the government is using our tax dollars to build the worlds most high tech spy facility to spy on us, the citizens of the United States.

And the "private" companies we use every day are the net being cast very broadly to source the data the government collects. Not the likes of AT&T, Bell Labs and UCLA, but new age companies like Google, Facebook, Oracle, Verizon, Direct TV and every other social media site we visit every day. These companies pass the collected data to the government which uses artificial intelligence recognition software which meta tags words, phrases, paragraphs and pages of data such as these I have just written and categorizes them into defined databases. This information, coming from all users of the internet, is, I repeat IS being collected by the government. When an individual uses a flagged word, phrase, sentence or series of words on a page too frequently, the machine flags and highlights it for review by analysts. Every discussion held on line over the past few years, has been collected and is being sorted, analyzed, and categorized by a machine which decides whether we are good citizens or a subversive group out to do harm to the government. Note I said harm to the government, not the citizens, but the government. We the people don't matter, only the government matters to these collectors of our thoughts and conversations.

Bottom line, today, whether you like to believe it or not, our "intel" agencies ARE collecting data and spying on every US citizen every moment of every day. Sleep as comfortably as you can my friends, but you should do so with the full understanding that "Big Brother" is watching, he is the enemy of the people and the enemy comes from within as much as from the outside.