UPDATED: Terrorists Prevail As French Parliament Overwhelmingly Dumps Major Civil Liberties Adopts Unlimited Mass Surveillance In Fear From Attacks

     Wednesday, 6 October 2015, PARIS - Seemingly oblivious to the debate raging in the United States over post-9/11 attacks U.S government Bush Administration, N.S.A., C.I.A., F.B.I. defense intelligence and other agencies' continuing widespread profound civil liberties' abuses in the wake of the United States hysterical reaction to those attacks which government abuses still haunt Americans seriously threatening foundational principles of the U.S. Constitution to this day nevertheless the so-called "socialist" French Government today in a shameful Parliamentary vote in which ruling socialists joined with French right-wingers but for the Front National (apparently leaving that far right group as the last elected bastion of French civil liberties) overwhelmingly voted to give French intelligence agencies mass surveillance powers giving the French Government the "right to gather potentially unlimited Internet data from Internet communications, and to tap cellphones and capture text messages" of anyone at all.
     France's capitulation to terrorist fears in sacrificing French fundamental foundational liberties existing since the French Revolution long a singularly vital inspiration to the free world which liberties largely define French society to this day not even sacrificed in the face of two world wars is a profound tragedy perhaps especially sadly ironic given that in the wake of the horrific Charlie Hebdo attack the former French Prime Minister Dominque de Villepin emphatically implored on or about 17 January 2015 in Le Monde that the French not adopt comparable "exceptional" measures such as the so-called disastrous "Patriot Act" which legislation Mr. Villepin in condemning further asserted specifically started a "downward spiral" in the United States leading directly to a result which "has caused that country today to lose of its moral compass".
     The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment observes that the French unhappily now may assess the consequences on the "moral compass" of France itself of legislation which according to the description of at least one civil liberties group there sounds as bad or worse even than United States post-9/11 legislation and its aftermath. Considering the acknowledged failure of the United States secretive adoption of huge mass surveillance and myriad other unconstitutional practices acknowledged to have yielded virtually no valuable information preventing significant homeland terrorist threats should France find it has with virtually no debate sweepingly sacrificed such fundamental liberties itself to purchase but "a little temporary safety" and God forbid still face some worse attack, how much liberty will France have left to sacrifice? The action of the French is a dangerous harbinger for Europe arguably as bad or if possible worse even than Great Britain's vast GCHQ surveillance described by Edward J. Snowden as "worse than the N.S.A." with the French further setting an example that should neither be followed elsewhere in Europe nor anywhere else in the free world lest the free world as known cease to exist.
     Readers interested in more information about the above can go to either or both of the first two links below. [UPDATE] Those readers interested in further details about the new French mass surveillance law as well on the response of other European countries to terrorism fears can go to the third link below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/world/europe/french-legislators-approve-sweeping-intelligence-bill.html?gwh=AB55DCBC38750DA2545732F9F6FEB3E6&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32587377

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/07/world/europe/france-expanded-surveillance-charlie-hebdo.html?_r=0

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Google Refuses Data Privacy Breach Cure Of 2012 "Policy Changes" Assailed By European Union: Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, France, The Netherlands And Spain Data Protection Authority To Hit Google With Millions In Fines

       Saturday, 21 February 2015, ROME - In the wake of a flood of investigations and complaints by European nations triggered by Google's 2012 unilateral announcement of its "Privacy Policy Changes" many of which European Data Privacy Actions are cataloged in the second linked-to PC World article of the two below perhaps the most noteworthy to date is Google's agreement announced yesterday to among other things allow the Italian Data Privacy authority to conduct on-site visits of Google United States facilities to insure compliance with an agreement to stop aggregating privacy data on Italian citizens from various Google services even including a record of all "searches" performed so as to assemble essentially "mega-profiles" of all persons making use of Google services. The history and details of this agreement are set out in the first linked-to PC World article of the two below.
       Meanwhile the second linked-to article below details a Dutch demand that Google cease the same practices drawing fire from at least six European Union (EU) nations described essentially as without express and knowing consent combining personal privacy data from users including content of searches, location data and videos watched. Google has "tried the patience" of Dutch authorities since 2012 and faces a $19 million fine if it does not resolve the privacy data violations against Dutch citizens within a week. PC World reports that Google already in the past two months has been fined about $1,250,000 combined by the French privacy authority and the Spanish data protection authority.
       A Google spokesman expressed "disappointment" with the actions of the EU nations as he claimed Google had already made changes to its 2012 "Privacy Policy" even though they apparently still are in violation of several nations' laws. Laws generally of course are enacted by due process as set forth in the establishing enforceable framework of a country and as such are enforceable by things like fines, imprisonment and death. Policies on the other hand although seemingly willingly misunderstood by many American companies in particular are usually self-serving words written on paper supported by no enforceable authority and subject to indiscriminate change by the usual American company nearly always in its favor as part of a larger intentional misconception that its policies are something more than empty words unenforceable against any outside parties. Companies often attempt to circumvent this deficiency by "incorporating by reference" policies and the like into larger incomprehensible unilateral adhesion contracts.
       Large fines by European regulators against massive American "metadata hoarding" companies such as Google and Facebook (with headquarters in Ireland) for practices worthy of spy agencies such as the CIA and NSA are nothing new including for example Facebook's infamous use of "facial recognition" technology of all persons in public places along with Google's apparent efforts to photograph and catalog every person's home and curtilage on the entire planet (better for targeted advertising, right?). It seems fair to say that United States citizens among established civilized Western nations now are afforded by far the least privacy protection by their State which in fact is especially true given the public ties between the CIA with business ventures in Google and the NSA's witless (excuse us, "unwitting" in perjurious testimony before Congress) indiscriminate collection of metadata on all American citizens (See earlier Ninth Amendment post entitled "We Kill Based On Metadata").
       In the uninformed lay opinion of the Ninth Amendment based on nothing but delusion the activities of the CIA and NSA and any other executive branch agencies in this regard are Unconstitutional in plain violation of the Bill of Rights and therefore lack all legitimacy removing any legitimate State power from them and rendering them nothing more than organized criminal enterprises. As for the so-called "private" entities engaged in similar activities either routinely or on demand supplying private citizens' information without a legitimate court order they are in our opinion informed only by delusion co-conspirators equally guilty by knowing complicity and assistance in the commission of criminal activities anathema to the principles established in the United States Constitution.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887192/google-agrees-to-italian-privacy-authority-audits-in-the-us.html#tk.rss_all

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2859712/dutch-authority-to-google-change-privacy-policy-or-else.html

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French Consider New Terrorist Laws But "Ridicule" USA Patriot Act Idea N.Y. Times Reports As French Grapple With Threat Of New Laws To Civil Liberties

        Saturday, 17 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the wake of the horrific terrorist slaughters at the Charlie Hebedo satirical newspaper and the Hyper Casher market the French who reportedly have terrorist laws and enforcement that largely have been considered "robust" and met with the approval of U.S. officials are considering what further measures France should take in the fight against terrorism while balancing concerns about civil liberties of French citizens. Nevertheless measures roughly equivalent to the Patriot Act have long been seen by many in France as embodying United States government encroachments on individual rights and civil liberties particularly including domestic surveillance of citizens that cannot be justified by any terrorist threat to date. The consideration of the enactment of laws in France similar to the Patriot Act even in the wake of current events are "ridiculed" by the French as detailed in the New York Times article linked to below. The following Ninth Amendment comment on that article as of this time is pending approval and it is not known whether it will be published in today's New York Times digital edition:

BigMartin

 waronnothing Pending Approval

The warning voiced by the former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin against the French adoption of "exceptional" measures was a most incisive concise statement of the grave dangers posed by the Patriot Act from the time of its adoption since which it has played out in more and more horrific domestic realities which admonition he reportedly wrote in Le Monde that “[t]he spiral of suspicion created in the United States by the Patriot Act and the enduring legitimization of torture or illegal detention has today caused that country to lose its moral compass.” The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment at www.waronnothing.blogspot.com consistently has warned that that "moral compass" is embodied in the United States Constitution from which our great Nation incrementally has stayed most dangerously further and further. The time for a renewal of a Constitutional faith and concomitant action consistent with that faith based on an honest interpretation of its text and the enduring principles embodied in the U.S. Constitution are our light and our hope for ourselves and our future generations as they have been for nearly two and a half centuries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/17/world/europe/patriot-act-idea-rises-in-france-and-is-ridiculed.html?ref=todayspaper

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