Robert Menendez: Edward Snowden Asylum Would Be 'A Step Against The United States'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/07/robert-menendez-edward-snowden_n_3557960.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
45 minutes ago ( 1:12 AM)
Are his eye brown? it would explain a lot.
If we were the United States of 1950, we would have hailed Edward Snowden as a national hero for uncovering the dirty doings buried in the bowels of the government., A congressional committee would have routed them out, indictments would have followed and the NSA would function under the constant scrutiny of Congress and perhaps a select civilian panel to keep them honest.
Instead, we have this blatherskite mouthing off vague diplomatic threats to any country that offers him asylum. The judges at Nuremberg would have wept to see this.
3 minutes ago ( 1:54 AM)
Really, judges at Nuremberg? Fair enough, you may not like the NSC program or the Patriot Act, but the fact is these covert programs are under constant Congressional scrutiny as well as the direct supervision and authorization of the FISA court. Frankly, I'm not not sure how much more oversight a covert program can be under. If this was the 1950s, the CIA would have quietly dispensed with Snowden in a fiery car crash on some remote road, wreaking of alcohol When do you think the NSA was setup and given all this power and money to snoop? Well it was 1952, by order of President Harry.
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The Judges of Nuremberg made sure that everybody who worked for IG Farben was released by 1950 from prison, or never even tried at all. They took leave of their Wall Street offices and put on officers uniforms and helped the men they had worked with for decades escape justice. SS Camp guards were hung, a few top political men were hung. IG Farben made the gas for Auschwitz and had a branch of it's gold smelting firm inside Auschwitz to melt the teeth and jewelry of the consumed. IG Farbin operated it's own private concentration camp inside of Auschwitz.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._McCloy#Controversy
In 1949,[2] John McCloy left his job as president of the World Bank to become the U.S. High Commissioner of Allied-occupied Germany. It wasn’t his first experience in that country; McCloy had been an attorney for the German chemical giant IG Farben in the 1930s. He also sat with Hitler in the Fuhrer’s box at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. In a stunning amnesty, the U.S. High Commissioner commuted the life sentences of five of the worst Nazi doctors, including Dr. Herta Oberheuser, a woman who injected healthy children with oil and removed their limbs and organs without anesthesia while they were still alive and conscious. Commissioner McCloy also reduced the sentences of other Nazi criminals convicted in the Nürnberg Trials considerably.
http://bush-nazis.blogspot.com/2011/05/george-w-bush-visits-auschwitz-birkenau.html
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Data is not any of those things. It is not Persons (like corporations), or houses, or papers. "Effects" are moveable objects, chattel, physical property.
Seizing is the act of taking, depriving somebody of use and enjoyment of "effects" or material objects. Copying is not seizing.
The Constitution has been amended 27 times (or 17 if you prefer the Bill of Rights was one amending). It is not easy, deliberately made hard, but it happens if the issue is important enough.
If you think your data needs to be more private enough to create a new amendment, begin.
However, data of the electromagnetic kind is not contemplated by the 4th Amendment.
Any privacy rights you data enjoys is due to laws passed by congress under the interstate commerce power. Congress can repeal laws or change them without notice, so it is not as strong as the Constitution, but you have data privacy rights if you understand how to use the laws.
Stop being a dunce in the 21st century. Dictionaries are online. You can find the definitions of words in all the Amendments. There is no electromagnetic data privacy rights in the 4th Amendment. Accept reality and deal with it.
