Clinton-Appointee U.S. District Judge William Pauley found today that the NSA’s bulk data collection is Constitutional. He completely ignores Constitution’s enumerated powers and the Bill of Rights. What a disgrace to the bench and the Judiciary.
It appears he has not read the document, but what can you expect from a hack like him?
In part he states:
The question for this court is whether the government’s bulk telephony metadata program is lawful. This court finds it is. But the question of whether that program should be conducted is for the other two coordinate branches of government to decide.
Compilation of DHS and Police Officers who do not know the Law. There are a lot of Federal and State officers who do not know the law and should be fired or retrained.
“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and
in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high
with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law
and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and
the like.” ~ Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980) U.S. Supreme Court
“Never forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t let him do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.”
—Aaron Zelman and L. Neil Smith, Hope, 2001”
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution; for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”
—Daniel Webster
“We’re kind of thinking of it as a tech ‘surge,’” an HHS official told POLITICO.
One wonders if the “geniuses” in charge of HealthCare.gov are experienced in software engineering or software design. They need to read the classic on Software Engineering/Computer Science/Computer Engineering, the Mythical Man Month.
The summary: Fred Brooks, then at IBM, added more programmers to a project falling behind schedule, a decision that he later concluded had, counter-intuitively, delayed the project even further. This concept is nearly 40 years old and is a staple of most good major Computer Engineering/Computer Science programs.
Does the media not care? No, they are just buying the stupidity coming from Washington hook, line, and sinker.
“Somehow, liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.” ~ Daniel Moynihan
“It’s time for someone to act like a grown-up in this process,” former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu argues, faulting Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and tea party Republicans in the House as much as President Barack Obama for taking an uncompromising stance.
Sununu is right, someone has to act like a grown-up and take the credit card away from the spoiled teenager before the child runs the debt up so high that the responsible adults can no longer have a chance at paying it back. Someone has to act like an adult and protect freedom from the irresponsible children who want something for “free” at the expense of liberty.
Sununu and others are showing their true colors here. Governor, freedom is something that is worth fighting for.