NSA blog post

THIS IS THE CENTRAL QUESTION---REAL Liberty or REAL Tyranny and understanding the difference.  It is SO CRUCIAL to understand the difference----

The NSA story has exposed the true question of the size and role of government that liberals and conservatives NEED to agree on---not healthcare, welfare, business regulations, IRS looking at tax exempt organizations etc. BUT OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES

The question is about national security, terrorism and the Constitution and our civil liberties as essential.

I always write that “”everyone needs to be healthy wealthy safe and free---but liberals and conservatives only disagree on role of government”” as in business regulation, welfare, food stamps and now obamacare etc

But that is NOT the major issue---the major issue is how govt treats its citizens----is it a govt OF BY AND FOR the people, or does govt abuse its power and intrude on the civil liberties defined in the Constitution???

We FOUNDED this country by declaring independence from a tyrannical leader, his crimes defined in the Declaration of Independence---and we established a government with protections in order to prevent tyranny from happening again (sections of the Declaration and Constitution are below)

Collecting taxes and establishing business regulations (and health insurance regulations) ARE NOT EXAMPLES OF TYRANNY!!! Tyrants do not care about the welfare of their citizens---they care about power and keeping power---so they label dissidents as terrorists, they spy on them and jail them and kill them.

This is the issue that is putting Democrats against Democrats, while other Democrats arelining up with GOP and Libertarians, fighting the real fight over liberty vs the need for security---we have the 4^th amendment to protect AMERICANS against “”unreasonable searches and seizures and searches without probable cause.””

THIS is the fight of our democracy and our values.  We can have freedom and security—but we CANNOT have 100% security or 99% liberty---giving up our liberty is not a choice---and nothing can ever keep us 100% safe.

FROM THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 

What TYRANTS do—as listed from King George III in declaration of independence

****DISSOLVE CONGRESS He (King George III) has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

****Have NO independent court ---He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

****Improper Trial and detention ----For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury

FROM THE CONSTITUTION www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS SET UP UNDER THE FRAMEWORK OF THE CONSTITUTION---WHICH ESTABLISHED A CONGRESS TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

The constitution sets laws for raising govt revenue---TAXES

Article 1 Section. 7.

All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

READ ALL OF ARTICLE 1 SECTION 8---it is crucial for Tea party and GOP to understand

ARTICLE 1 Section. 8.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

(GEE I wonder what the 2nd amendment deals with)

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

SECTION 10-----the stats have their rights BUT ARE NOT THE FEDERAL GOVT

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

(again this is what 2^nd Amendment regulates)

Article 2 Section 2. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States;