Ron Paul's Statement on NSA: The Fourth Amendment is Clear

[tsai3904]

Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul condemned reports that the Obama Administration is secretly collecting data from the phone calls of millions of Americans:

“I wish I could say I was shocked at the reports the NSA is secretly spying on the private phone calls of millions of Verizon customers. However, this is a predictable result of a government that continues to erode our liberties while promising some glimmering hope of security.

“The Fourth Amendment is clear; it says we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers and effects, and that all warrants must have probable cause.

“I opposed and continue to oppose the Patriot Act because I believe it throws the Fourth Amendment right out the window. It is certainly not patriotic to support warrantless wiretaps, blanket ‘metadata’ collection, and spying on innocent American citizens.

“Unfortunately, what is worse than the reports, is knowing that politicians of both parties will continue to defend this practice as necessary to supposedly keep us ‘safe’. We do not have to sacrifice our liberties for security. At times like this, the question must be asked, ‘if we are willing to change our way of life and our very definition of freedom while tolerating the invasive searches at our airports and now of our phone calls, have the terrorists already won?’”

http://www.campaignforliberty.org/national-blog/ron-paul-the-fourth-amendment-is-clear/

 

[Warlord]

Ron is and was right. The Fourth is clear and all of this is unconstitutional. Verizon and other companies should tell them to get lost.

Even more egregious is the fact that FISA we were told was for only foreign intelligence i.e people calling abroad and vice versa yet the FISA court granted a huge domestic order.

 

[sailingaway]

apt as always!

 

[sailingaway]

I've been tweeting clips of the 4th amendment. Security in that relates to security of PRIVACY in one's effects.....

 

[Dr.3D]

Does sort of look like the terrorists have already won. They are the excuse being used to take away our liberties. First it was the so called "war on drugs" that started getting peoples doors broken down in the middle of the night, and now they have added the so called "war on terror" to further erode our liberties.

People should wake up and realize, it's really a "war on us."

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

Ron is and was right. The Fourth is clear and all of this is unconstitutional. Verizon and other companies should tell them to get lost.

Even more egregious is the fact that FISA we were told was for only foreign intelligence i.e people calling abroad and vice versa yet the FISA court granted a huge domestic order.

I'm pretty sure that FISA stuff was bullshit anyway. Wasn't the criteria that someone is communicating with someone else outside the US?

Who on the internet isn't communicating with people outside the US???

 

[sailingaway]

I understand NSA courts turned down zero requests last year. Rubber stamps of civilization wide universal data harvesting is not due process, nor does it 'describe with particularity the item to be seized' as required by the Constitution.

 

[sailingaway]

Someone just tweeted this:

https://twitter.com/j3VOL/status/343130733801521152/photo/1

 

[Aratus]

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