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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Consumer Data Privacy Protection Bill Proposed By Obama Administration Said To Add Little Or Even To Diminish Existing Consumer Protection Laws

       Saturday, 28 February 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment submitted the below comment to the New York Times in response to the below linked article which comment has been published in today's New York Times digital edition.

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The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com finds it most unfortunate that the Obama Administration despite President Obama's campaign promises to the contrary having firmly established a horrific record of greatly extending and expanding the NSA and other Executive Branch agencies' gross abuses of all Americans' privacy and other rights by among other things universal surveillance and data mining largely begun under the Bush administration should extend those broken promises to consumer privacy rights proposing such abysmal apparently toothless or even counter-productive legislation apparently immediately criticized by nearly all notable consumer rights groups. It is most unfortunate that President Obama appears bound to leave such a sorry legacy in the vital area of Americans' privacy and related Constitutional rights in an era when the sustained attacks against these rights by the Government and corporations domestically threaten the very survival of the core fabric of the Constitution and thus further diminish the chances of the very survival of the United States as it has become so distracted sacrificing such essential liberties to protect itself from "national security" threats claimed not only from abroad but increasingly allegedly from within.

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Microsoft Gave The FBI, CIA, And NSA Encrytion Access To Skype, Oulook And Skydrive Conspiring In Illegal PRISM Other VIOLATIONS OF LAW

       Tuesday, 13 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment Editorial Board for interested/concerned readers provides the below link to a 2013 article appearing in Neogaf.com providing detailed information on how Microsoft Corporation in advance of product launches gave the FBI, CIA and NSA encryption access to Skype, Outlook and Skydrive thereby conspiring with those federal agencies to facilitate the unconstitutional and known to be illegal PRISM and other "Operations" (Violations of Law) in the gathering of metadata and other unlawful information collection practices violating the rights of U.S. citizens including but not limited to being free of warrantless illegal searches and seizures with no showing of probable cause or even reasonable suspicion, invasion of privacy, stifling of freedom of speech and of the press when such activities became more widely known, violation of civil rights and myriad other criminal violations which as in the case of torture the United States Department of Justice has let these most serious and blatantly unarguable violations of core fundamental constitutional and human rights go absolutely unprosecuted and unpunished with perpetrators therefore not only showing remorse but in well known recent instances saying they would "engage in the same behavior again".
       These lapses in federal law enforcement and inaction of the Obama Administration specifically including the United States Department of Justice which instead waste time and resources going after far lesser particularly drug offenses (which President Obama pledged as a Presidential candidate to address but like so many other civil rights matters has not) unless remedied may go down in history as some of the most significant and unexcusedly shameful legacies of both the tenure of Attorney General Eric Holder and moreover that of President Barack Obama and his entire administration given the gravity of these offenses which may well overshadow any other accomplishments of the time spent of Mssrs. Obama and Holder during their tenure in office. Without a doubt this already especially in the wake of the disclosure of the torture practices of the CIA is the case in the eyes of the world community whom the United States has so hypocritically incessantly hounded about their own human rights abuses for which it now has lost all moral authority should it not act very soon to remedy this situation by bring responsible parties to justice.
       The CIA, NSA and FBI are not in themselves either a fourth branch of government or anything more than discretionary executive branch agencies which answer to only one person who is the President of the United States Barack Obama. His continued inaction especially in the area of torture which to date he has not even addressed while leaving it to his spokesperson Josh Earnest to express the Administration's "confidence" in for example John Brennan Director of th0e CIA. Mr. Earnest must cringe inside when he is put in the position of telling that lie (although he know doubt is somewhat inured to the reality of the evil perpetrated as Mr. Brennan who when previously hanging around the White House in his counter-terrorism was  position commonly was known according to Democracy Now! as President Obama's "Assassination Czar".
        This inaction amounts to complicity and in the opinion of the Ninth Amendment editorial board further to the aiding and abetting of criminals as well as being guilty of obstructing justice and being after the fact accomplices to all crimes of which the Obama Administration is aware yet allows to go unpunished. One does not exercise prosecutorial discretion to exercise some of the gravest violations of and threats to the United States Constitution that this great Nation has ever known and which moreover must be addressed for it to continue to function with any moral authority either domestically or internationally. We must face that the "National Security" octopus must like the Republican party must constantly play over and over some fear card because that ultimately is all they have to justify their existence.
       Most shamefully not only does this failure to respect the Unites States Constitution which the Obama Administration including all federal agencies, officials and employees are sworn to uphold (not IGNORE) and which they and in particular Eric Holder's Department of Justice are charged with enforcing but as has been said publicly in no uncertain terms by guilty parties that would show so much bluster rather than any remorse given their growing conviction that by false bluster alone they will face of no punishment whatsoever it will encourage not only these criminals but their successor federal government officials to participate in the same sort of wrongdoing and if anything establish a precedent that clear statutory and constitutional violations by certain government officials as well as operatives and their contractors even most remotely acting "under" them will be immune from punishment regardless of their crimes against the American people, repugnant to the Constitution and even against humanity to the enduring disgust of the world community as the United States proceeds as if without inevitable consequence with a Constitution that after years of serious erosion at the hands of the federal government and the largely Republican appointed partisan judiciary finally collapses and with it the government that relies on it for its very existence yet has too long both ignored it and violated it with such complacency that it no longer realizes that it exists on a foundation of nothing but air and the hordes from everywhere from "das" Homeland to the four corners of the Earth are at the gates.

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=620416

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NSA And GCHQ Exposed Unconstitutional "Mobile Suck" Massive Privacy Invasion Gathers Readers' Sexual And Political Orientation Data From "Leaky" Mobile Device Games, Smartphones And Androids

     Monday, 27 January 2014, SPYWORLD USA AND UK - The Ninth Amendment Editorial Board in what thoroughly has become a predictably tedious not to mention dangerous diversion of ours and our Nation's national security and other limited vital resources steadfastly does our best to pass on to our most concerned readers the latest daily bombshells of NSA and United Kingdom counterpart GCHQ most recent disclosures of unethical, immoral and illegal (no doubt exposed largely thanks only to Snowden documents) sickly misguided "pre-emptive metadata" privacy invasion practices since an explosion of spending by the two rogue spy agencies in 2007 on tracking readers activities via "leaky" mobile devices while unsuspecting users thought themselves merely immersed in such brainless trivialities as playing games including others recently culminating in the immensely popular (okay if they say so, "Angry Birds").
     And these games sure do squeak to the thousands of your "fellow" UK and US citizens (aspiring KGB agents) keeping you on the unemployment rolls while they rake in the dough illegally selling "useless" information on you (the "target") such as your location, sex, prior and anticipated next locations, personal habits, and, oh yes, marital status, sexual orientation and political beliefs.
     After billions of dollars, computers overflowing with "top secret" information about you so "top secret" you cannot even FOIA it (although hundreds of thousands of your government officials, college interns, former CIA Director General Petraeus and dumpster divers now doubtlessly "mistakenly" can access "you" in a minute), these agencies the NSA and GCHQ, have pitifully little to show for their efforts in terms of "national security" unless they stretch the truth a bit or are just too successful to admit it. They do admit that they have blithely tossed off some of your most important rights to, inter alia, freedom of speech, assembly, press, freedom from searches without "probable cause", those "penumbra" privacy ones that Mr. Justice Douglas just kind of humored the Court on anyway (just lucky "good facts" in Griswold what with the police kicking in married couples' bedroom doors), and so on. All to gather no information of even nearly commensurate value to abruptly finding one living a life pursuing happiness as in say Russia. Finally it is said (anyway) all most important information actually originated with "traditional" methods of tradecraft anyway, like trading national secrets for sexual favors and, oh yes, money. . . .
     One of the largest makers of "leaky apps" mobile device games, Sweden's Rovio Entertainment, making a fortune off the wholesale compromise of readers' U.S. Constitutional and similar (but weaker, remember King George III?) U.K. "Rights" does defend the private company's information collection practices which can then merely be soaked up by the NSA and GCHQ as being adequately self-regulated. Balitimore's Millenial Media, now working in concert to suck up even huger amounts of data with the maker of "Angry Birds" and other "leaky applications" after all proudly "does not knowingly collect private information of children under 13 years of age."
     No wonder the GCHQ code name "Mobile Surge" (should be "Mobile Suck") for this latest daily assault on our U.S. Constitution and each and every one of us who participates in that compact only as a matter of OUR WILL, since all governmental powers under it derive from but one place, and that is we the people, who can call off the deal whenever we care to do so under such relentless government abuse largely at the hands of mere children, certainly in spirit.
     One excited NSA child staffer not surprisingly also excitedly captioned this latest opportunity for the Agency's wholesale invasion of Americans' privacy rights, as can be seen in the NSA's child-like storyboard pictured in the following New York Times article as a "Gold Nugget!" simplifying the spy agency's latest opportunity for a major grab of your big taxpayer bucks to take an even more major grab of your few remaining privacy and other fundamental rights as so ridiculously simple (yes even of course the context must be a "game") that only a child could, or perhaps would want to, do it.
     With all due respect if our readers do not remove their bottoms from their sofas and get out there and vote screaming for their rights, donate what time or money they can, and demand their nearest and dearest to do so as well, we frankly do not know how many more of these articles the Ninth Amendment with be posting. And we may all then find ourselves as suggested in the below article serving as nothing more than beacons in the darkness flashing name, rank and serial number back to roomfuls of techies with no sense of history nor the terrible cost of liberty or anything else of value for that matter drowning under their mountains of metadata desperately clutching their joysticks staring through rooftops at your daughters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/spy-agencies-scour-phone-apps-for-personal-data.html?action=click&contentCollection=Asia%20Pacific&region=Footer&module=TopNews&pgtype=article

     Readers who read the above New York Times article please should they care to do so be sure and explore the Times generously included references to "DocumentCloud" a most useful treasure trove of government documents used by researchers and journalists to research and uncover government lies, misdeeds, illegalities and so on. In the "do-it-yourself" sample case used in one edition the Times repeated local newspaper inquiries of the decade earlier "Undercover Informant" CIA role of famed 1960's civil rights photographer Ernest Withers is met by more than two years of government stonewalling before a clerk screws up and releases his CIA Informant Code Number by accident. Twice, in the same document.
     Mr. Withers fittingly followed his illustrious career as a CIA snoop on the Civil Rights movement by getting a patronage job with the State Liquor Commission where he extorted liquor license holders from his position as well as buying people's relatives out of early prison releases for more bribes, kickbacks, etc. Former CIA informant (contractor not employee, please!) was never prosecuted for his crimes although they did end the political career of the Governor of the State. We believe the case makes clear that journalists serve no useful purpose and demonstrate just another reason to toss out the First Amendment wholesale rather than going through the tedious exercise of pretending that the U.S. Government still actually respects or acknowledges any of the People's rights under the U.S. Constitution. Clearly the Founding Fathers should have just stopped with the "Commerce Clause" which the U.S. Government with the full support of the Supreme Court has used tortuously to justify any U.S. Government action from drug dealing to murder.
     In the words of beloved Gonzo journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson: "Did we say that? Well we must have meant it."

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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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Happy Constitution Day 2013! In 1787 United States Constitution Signed 226 Years Ago Today

       The editorial staff and global bureaus of the Ninth Amendment wish our readers a healthy and happy and for us most meaningful Constitution Day 2013. Yes readers it has been two hundred and twenty-six years since the Constitutional Congress signed the original United States Constitution in 1787 on this day.
       Consistent with the federal mandate that all schools initiate and implement educational programs specifically realized by the spirit of celebration and ongoing significance of Constitution Day, we here emphasize our gratitude for the foresight and guidance provided in the living vitality of that document essential to the security, strength and survival of our great Country and the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" promised in the Preamble and provided for expressly in the Constitution's body and its amendments.
       The Ninth Amendment log was conceived and created to honor the brilliance of the collective human wisdom and experience which combined informed by the Constitution's provisions. We support the Constitution daily as championed by some, while by others tested and challenged from without and within, by countries to individuals, ranging from the honestly well-meaning to the dangerously deluded, and everyone between.
       Incontrovertible evidence methodically summarized in posts here (sorry to our long-suffering readers) will demonstrate under the strictest scrutiny that Ninth Amendment staff these past months specifically since July 2013 inclusive have suffered amongst other things assaults on our Constitutional rights (here naming neither public nor private entities) now well-documented with many diverse individuals and institutions including where appropriate as evidenced by the very same tools by which these wrongful acts were perpetrated. We have never been so grateful as now for every single protection provided by the Constitution (as well as under statutory, common and/or any pertinent law) and the remedies established for their violation.
        Happy Constitution Day 2013. God Bless America.

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Link  The United States Constitution And Other Great Documents Regarding The Birth Of This Nation:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/charters.html

Texas "Superstupid" U.S. Senator Ted Cruz Leading Force Of "Tea Party Revolt" Modeled On Disgraced Senator Joseph "Morphine-A-Go-Go" McCarthy

       Thursday, 1 August 2013, HAVANA - Readers your attention and patience please for the evolving prediction of the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment log that this current American century-span, roughly defined as commencing with the storming by the Allied Forces led from the West by the United States military racing into literal collision at Hitler's besieged Berlin Fuhrerbunker with the crush of Stalinist Russian masses from the East, soon eclipsed by the so-called "atomic" bombings of Nagasaki and within days Hiroshima, through the paroxysms of "McCarthyism" here at home from the Atlantic seaboard clear to sunny Hollywood on the Pacific Coast, the overseas global Cold War now known indeed to have brought our planet Earth to the very brink of extinction from a conflagration with the Communists off the shores of Cuba, and all that has since followed right up to the present with the United States heir apparent Superpower now its greatest towers smashed but feverishly rebuilt yet inexorably losing its grip on that mantle (F-35 "weapons system" or not we are afraid) to the undeniable gravitational force of the burgeoning population black hole of the Far East as the mid-East writhes in the seasons of its discontent, only that we now should suffer for some surely unfathomable reason the murmurings of another but this time self-inflicted, what?..... "Tea Party"!
       No mortal knows where this dizzying span will have led us in another quarter-century but the Ninth Amendment here predicts the historians of future eras certainly for no short time will puzzle, ponder, wonder, and no doubt make it their vocation to examine exactly what, went . . . .
       Something in the spy-filled air of late gripping our great Nation not altogether surprisingly compelled our editorial staff this evening past to revisit in a noticeably unpolished Wikepedia piece on the late (we rather took for granted) disgraced Wisconsin United States Senator Joseph McCarthy in some wonderment the similarities to which our country seemed to have so soon again allowed itself to succumb to inchoate fears and have kept our eye so obediently on the ball therefore as to more or less unwittingly let mechanism of the witch-hunt gear up, again. The human tragedies of that 1950's era need not be revisited here, the slim reeds upon which they by most accounts all too often rested, and what we took to be the generally accepted conclusion that when the heat of the moment (and the Senator increasingly undeniably . . . .unwell as in ill) and resultant dust died down indeed a few traitors most likely had been exposed, punished, paid the price for treason. But what of the other sometimes estimated ninety-five per cent or so who most likely just had the misfortune to be named because, well, they had a name, and one seemed needed for the moment, their talents, their livelihood, their family, their life.... be damned?
       Somehow the story when it unraveled really did seem to have become stranger than fiction to use that worn cliche. Senator McCarthy apparent champion of all American and not aberrant quite undeniably himself turning out to be, well, a heroin addict? Maybe not, but no one seemed to do much more than turn away in disgust as it really was beyond denying that he was at least a screaming alcoholic, even in his heydey, with at least a serious morphine addiction perhaps to relieve the effects of the alcohol. Somehow when the time came most apparently was more or less overlooked, or at least very downplayed.
       Downplayed n fact by the very one who first quite publicly revealed it in his early 1960's memoir, that is except for leaving out the Senator's name (as if too many personalities of that era fit the bill). But at this point the historians are all sure to find it rather just getting a little too odd to ignore. The person who of course revealed the Senator's addiction was none other than the Nation's universally acknowledged and still longest tenured drug czar in United States history. Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (successor to the Prohibition era bureau) for an unprecedented and needless to say never repeated period of thirty-two years spanning from 1930 to 1962.
        And then the story becomes really strange. Commissioner Anslinger in fact it turns out had a while before become aware of Senator McCarthy's habits as he had acknowledged, and in the end agreed to make arrangements with a local Washington, D.C. pharmacist that the Senator would receive a steady supply of morphine. Apparently in the end the Commissioner was convinced by Senator McCarthy that should the truth come out it would mean the "end of the Free World" or roughly those words. It was thought better meanwhile to concentrate on blaming the opiate menace on the Communist nations abroad. Remarkably when this information more or less came to light including with the Commissioner's publication of his memoirs, no one really seemed to care that much at all about the matter, McCarthy having sometime ago fallen from grace. Or so it seemed. Meanwhile despite his apparent knowledge of this situation President John F. Kennedy actually appointed the Commissioner's to a further term even in light of the knowledge that he had been allegedly condoning the supply of drugs to McCarthy.
       And there readers we find ourselves more or less come up to the present day. Apparently Senator Joseph McCarthy has had a resurgence as a voice of today's Tea Party movement. The heroin rumor reportedly was never that well disseminated. Apparently if the Senator's heavy drinking at night necessitated the assistance of some other opiate to get through the hearings of the following day, that might even be understood for the sake of the country. Or so went the reasoning. After all it was for a good cause, or so the thinking of some has gone so far as to justify the casualties to others and to the Senator himself along the way.
     Finally as if to come perhaps full circle or full something in any case today there is in the growing movement of Senator McCarthy's resurgence a body of support amongst the Tea Party movement. And somehow, the  new junior Senator from Texas Ted Cruz has come to be associated with it.  The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment wishes to emphasize that there is no connection whatsoever suggested between the personal habits of Senators McCarthy and Cruz, however readers who care to delve into the subject of oddities in the remarkable life of Senator Cruz we believe will be most surprised at coincidences that seem again beyond imagining.
       Senator Ted Cruz is no Rick Perry. He is not brain dead still standing. Professor Allen Dershowitz reportedly has acknowledged that he is absolutely brilliant, no holds barred. He has held positions and for tenures that have been unheard of before for a person of his young age. He graduated Princeton University nearly a decade after some of the editorial staff of this log. Yet oddly his father fought with Castro for the Cuban Revolution, although he apparently had said he "did not know Castro was a Communist". Perhaps most oddly for us, Senator Cruz actually is a scholar of the last two of the Bill of Rights, believing in the same tenets as the editors of this log do as to the simple but compelling logic that the Ninth Amendment (and the Tenth as well) were not written as mere verbiage. The Founding Fathers did not write words in the Constitution for the sake of ornament.
       Please do not be complacent readers, however, there is no doubt that this Senator Ted Cruz is a force to be reckoned with. He has worked with Ed Meese. He has worked with others and for other causes about which many readers will have strong feelings, no doubt. Senator Cruz also clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court. As Solicitor General of Texas he successfully argued to keep many, many prisoners on death row whom a World Court already had decided should be taken off of it because of human rights violations in their trial proceedings. Senator Ted Cruz is someone interested parties would be most well advised to watch and work to follow their beliefs in influencing Texas politics. Texans cries out for justice..
       Stranger stories there have been. And we have shared a few oddities here. But the world works in mysterious ways, and that is why we introduced this piece with the observation that the hundred year span we will be ending mid-century can well be expected to hold  a great many mysteries for the historians to try to unravel. A final conundrum we leave readers with here is this. Mr. Cruz was born in Canada. However his mother was a United States Citizen. Apparently on that basis the "consensus" analysis is that Mr. Cruz COULD serve as United States President because his mother's status qualifies him as a "natural born citizen". We have not researched this, but we do not follow. To the editorial board of the Ninth Amendment the words of the Constitution sound unambiguous. We always took it for granted that they meant the United States President actually had to be born on U.S. soil. We just do not want any more coup d'etats around here. The election 2000 debacle proved the enduring wisdom of the Founding Fathers.
        God Bless America and the United States Constitution..

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