[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC Statement on PRISM?

[Marc Perkel]

Here's an article I wrote about government spying.

http://gilroy.patch.com/groups/marc-perkels-blog/p/why-do-i-care-abut-government-spying-i-have-nothing-to-hide


  Why do I care about government spying? I have nothing to hide.


In response to government spying on all our phone calls some people have 
said to me, "Why do I care about government spying? I have nothing to 
hide. So what if the government is tapping into everything we do?" Obama 
says, "We're going to have to make some choices as a society."


The 4th Amendment of the Constitution says.*"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."* Obama is saying that a secret 
court has determined that all Verizon customers are criminal suspects, 
including me. That is just plain crazy on its face.

Obama and every member of Congress took an oath that includes,*"I do 
solemnly swear that I will ...  preserve, protect and defend the 
Constitution of the United States."* That oath has now been broken by 
the President and every member of Congress that supports government by 
secret courts and secret laws.

So an answer like "I have nothing to hide.", misses the point. I don't 
recall anything in the Constitution that says that you can amend the 
Constitution by deciding to ignore it. I don't recall a rule that says 
that if a Republican president and a Democrat president both break the 
same law then the law becomes nullified. Obama and the Congress have 
effectively suspended the Constitution.

What they are doing is declaring that the Constitution itself, the 
document upon which all laws are founded, is void. Obama and Congress 
have declared that the rule of law no longer applies in America. Without 
the rule of law and the Constitution the America we knew no longer 
exists. It is wrong and it rises to the level of treason against the 
Constitution.

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