N.Y. Times Disgust Abounds In "More Excuses On The Patriot Act" Entire Editorial Board Extraordinarily Dismal Admonition That The American People "Get Used To The Protections Of Your Civil Liberties Being Minimally Viable"

     Monday, 4 May 2015, NEW YORK, NY - The New York Times entire editorial board seemingly despairingly calls the proposed "Freedom Act" or other revisions currently under consideration to the so-called "Patriot Act" (which the Times recounts as "shoved through Congress") as "minimal viable product" unacceptable under the United States Constitution even as a virtual slew of (at least three) recent articles in the Times appear to cast at least on their surface some hope in present measures under consideration as being an unprecedented collaboration across the political spectrum from the Senate Judiciary Committee to members of House Committees and those in both parties in Congress (with the notable exception of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, and a handful of Republican hawks) as well as diverse presidential candidates which in whatever case clearly reflects the huge impact and invaluable significance of the Edward J. Snowden National Security Agency revelations of mass surveillance and data collection on informing national debate and consideration of the coming future of United States technology, national security and civil liberties issues.

     Beyond reports on the widespread agreement of government officials one article cites even an apparent lack of opposition from the National Security Agency to the proposed changes which on its face seems hopeful except when upon further examination the article cites "one recently departed senior intelligence official" who reportedly last Friday confided "[t]his is hardly major change". Meanwhile reportedly Human Rights Watch supports such proposals under consideration as an incremental "critical first step" while the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Information Technology Industry Council (not however to be confused with other organizations in this sentence dedicated to the protection of civil liberties) also support proposed changes and finally the American Civil Liberties Union takes no position other than to express its preference simply that the much despised Section 215 of the so-called "Patriot Act" be permitted to expire under its own sunset provision on 1 June 2015 without any other new related legislation at this time.

     The entire editorial board of the Ninth Amendment must stand with the entire editorial board of the New York Times in solid agreement here that such unacceptable erosions of civil liberties as have been perpetrated by the State particularly since 9/11 including the subsequent "false flag" audacities and criminal atrocities of the Bush Administration and its executive agencies including without limitation the N.S.A., C.I.A. and F.B.I. exploiting that horrific event in relentlessly unprecedented attacks against the United States Constitution most especially the Bill of Rights that the People do not stand for such "incremental" remedies as that compact does not tolerate any incremental erosion nor any incremental remedy such as now may be proposed by the State which today due to such serious transgressions stands on very tenuous ground from which it must retreat to the solid ground of Constitutional legitimacy with all haste. 

     However the Ninth Amendment must part from the New York Times on the final issue of tolerance of the State's entirely unacceptable transgressions as it is the duty of the Ninth Amendment as a right and concomitant responsibility of the press especially as set forth in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution to call not upon the People to "get used" to such outrages against the protections of their civil liberties perpetrated by the State vastly overreaching its Constitutionally granted powers but on the contrary that the State "get used" to following the rule of that supreme law of the land not "incrementally" but immediately or else it must cease to exist as it operates not under not any legitimacy granted it by the People but due to the action of its own transgressions operates as a rogue State unsupported and never created under any legitimate grant of power by the People wherein all power ultimately resides.

     Readers interested in the New York Times editorial can go to the first link below which is followed by links to related articles focusing on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Congress and others in and out of power and finally a link to the related article on the apparent position of the N.S.A. on pending proposals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/opinion/more-excuses-on-the-patriot-act.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/politics/usa-freedom-act-surveillance-limits.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/us/politics/patriot-act-faces-revisions-backed-by-both-parties.html?_r=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/02/us/politics/giving-in-a-little-on-national-security-agency-data-collection.html

   

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No Encryption Terrorist $10 Million Reward State Department Website Plus Departments Of Justice, Homeland Security, Treasury And Other U.S. Government Inspectors General Whistleblower Unsecured Websites Put Tipsters At Risk Of U.S. Federal Government Retaliation Some Even Of Death

     Friday, 17 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Whistleblowers providing what they are assured is information treated as "confidential" pursuant to federal law exposing Federal Government "waste, fraud and abuse" to Inspectors General (IGs) of most federal agencies including the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, the Treasury and many others actually are subject to having their complaints and personal information including names, addresses and telephone numbers transmitted unencrypted via Internet exposing them to danger of career or other retaliation whether from the agencies themselves or even under the Obama Administration to Department of Justice (DOJ) overzealous prosecution not to mention tipsters facing obvious threats to life, limb, family or any number of other devastating consequences who might choose to send Internet communications to the unsecured State Department website offering up to a $10 million reward for terrorist information an ACLU review confirmed as accurate by federal government officials has disclosed leading to contact with the ACLU by DOJ IG Michael Horowitz regarding these most serious federal lapses.
     Among those that do encrypt their entire websites are the White House and CIA as well most major well-known technology firms especially in the wake of Edward J. Snowden's revelations disclosing the staggering extent of unconstitutional especially NSA domestic mass surveillance and metadata collection abuses perpetrated against the American people (assuming those major technology firms did not already know the full extent of and/or participate in those abuses themselves previously). Readers interested in significantly more information including the long list they should be aware of some of the federal agency IG's who do not have secure website Internet complaint and other transmissions can go to the link below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/04/16/why-confidential-tips-to-the-government-may-not-be-confidential-after-all/?tid=hpModule_88854bf0-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&hpid=z14

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Please "Like" N.S.A. To Facilitate Use Of Americans' "Mainway" Metadata To Monitor Your Phone, E-Mail, GPS, Family, Friends, Lovers, Acquaintances, Social Network Relationships

       Monday, 30 September 2013, THE TOWER OF LONDON - "Power Corrupts. Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely." What on God's Earth could Lord Acton have meant by those convoluted words so confusing to the ordinary cryptographer as to surely have meant nothing at all? No doubt His Lordship uttered them just as thoughtlessly as the Founding Fathers entirely consistent with their otherwise tediously nonchalant drafting of the United States Constitution included the Ninth Amendment when they circulated it to the several states as one of the original Twelve two of which must have been really bad as the States could not even stomach that balderdash and had to trim the whole lot down to the Ten renumbered and come to be known as the "Bill of Rights" (or to today's three branches of Government the "Invoice of Suggestions".)
       Yea! did the Founding Fathers furthermore that fateful summer in addition to verily vestigial verbiage plunked elsewhere in the Preamble and Body of the Constitution's text lavishly extoll and make use of their many lustrous and other select arsenal of ponderous words for no reason at all other than to waste their time, breath, energy and to avoid having to go back a moment too soon to their families, whom in any case the N.S.A. had it fully metastasized could have been keeping an eye on them making sure lest they leave anything out of their letters or their (beta) Facebook entries.
       We might admit it appeared ever so slightly challenging to this Ninth Amendment editorial board for a while to predict the who and when until having done nothing to stop it came the next wave of perpetration of widespread U.S. Government overreaching, abuses of powers and outright violations of long-established laws as soon as those misdeeds became technologically feasible and "cost-effective" in that special "national security" sense of the term. That is any cost is effective and every security is national.
       Now despite N.S.A. General Keith Alexander's assurances of facile necessity like technology run amok with hackers the breaches of our liberties have rumbled exponentially close behind with the government hacking at the heels of our private lives at 20 million hits of metadata an hour. Turns out we really do not need to know exactly what you were doing on the telephone with the ACLU two hours a week, because we have a pretty good idea, and especially after the N.S.A. Hearing (oh, that is us!) then they spoke with the Center for Constitutional Rights for just another hour (told you those CCRS were always even a wee bit sneakier, a wee bit craftier). And zoom in on that wall at the Facebook birthday party video at their National Offices would you? 25X magnification, 17 filters, and, oh, hand over the night vision goggles while the candles are burning, just make out that "Master Litigation Chart" as if with the naked eye right there, eh? 
       Surely those "powers" of continuous contiguous surveillance which were never granted to any State most definitely not the Federal Government in 1789 nay to the N.S.A. nor any of the other fifteen or twenty others in any of the two-and-a-quarter-centuries thereafter (just thank goodness the Military stays out of our Government, has no interest in it like in those banana republics!) in the solemn and sacred Compact with the People known as the U.S. Constitution, so therefore according to the plain parameters of that document in fact remain vested exclusively as the inalienable rights (cannot take them away) and sole provinces (NO WE NEVER SURRENDER OUR MOST PRIVATE MOMENTS) of  WE THE PEOPLE of THESE UNITED STATES NO OTHER COUNTRY and it is WITH US ALONE they reside. (But who wants privacy if they have nothing to hide? Why not stay pure in the clean bright blinding light of the public arena, like us?)
       Pray read your Declaration of Independence, your Preamble, your Constitution, all your "Charters of Freedom", disseminate them each a thousand times over before THEY tell you SURE they EXIST but NOWHERE do they say YOU can READ THEM! Nowhere do they say we cannot convert them to digital and WIPE THEM CLEAN!
       Readers interested in more lately revealed details of the inexorably growing reality of the N.S.A.'s foreign surveillance turned domestic from warrant to not from cellular phone to e-mail to Facebook to GPS to Cellular Tower/Dishes (No Comment) to acquaintances to co-workers to friends to relatives to family to YOU and your society, media, meetings, schedules, conferences, your children, your pets will not want to miss the following latest New York Times piece including on "Mainway". Please support your New York Times:
  
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/us/nsa-examines-social-networks-of-us-citizens.html?ref=us&_r=0

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