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/us/politics/giving-in-a-little-on-national-security-agency-data-collection.html
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