FBI Dir. Kash Patel Defends Unconstitutional Purchase of Amers’ Big Tech Data
The Government, without meaningful oversight or the knowledge of the mark, stock large amounts of highly personal information on American citizens.
By Benjamin Bartee via Armageddon Prose reports on Substack…
“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”
-Thomas Paine, ‘Common Sense’
The Fourth Amendment, on its face, no matter what sophistry government lawyers offer to the contrary to subvert it, is unambiguous in the constraints it places on law enforcement:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
-United States Constitution, Fourth Amendment
Unfortunately, the ease with which the government now enjoys the ability to surreptitiously, without meaningful oversight or the knowledge of the mark, stock large amounts of highly personal information on American citizens — which, unlike the physical search of a residence, for example, are not easily documented by watchdogs — complicates that ability to restrain the government, which, by its nature, as is the case for any human organization, as the Founders warned, is constantly interested in expanding its powers and authorities.
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