George Phillips/Libertyforall
By a vote of 205-217, Congress has rejected the Amash-Conyers ‘Defund the NSA’ amendment, which would have shut down one of the many programs under which the Federal government wages electronic war on the American people.
It was a vote by the Establishment — the Democratic and Republican Party leaderships and their fellow travelers.
It was a vote against the American people. We are not trusted, so we must be monitored. Watched. Spied upon. Investigated.
The American people should recognize the vote for what it was.
It was a declaration of war.
It was a declaration of war by Congress and the American political establishment.
It was a declaration of war on the American people.
By vote of Congress, that NSA spying program will continue.
The establishment voted in favor of war? Oh, yes. They voted down the Amash-Conyers amendment.
Republicans for war on us: Speaker Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and Committee Chairs: (Armed Services Committee) Howard McKeon, (Homeland Security Committee) Mike McCaul, (Intelligence Committee) Mike Rogers, and (Oversight and Government Reform Committee) Darrell Issa.
Democrats for war on us: Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, and the chairs of the National Democratic and Republican Congressional Committees (Steve Israel, Greg Walden).
That’s as establishment as you can get. The establishment voted against the Amendment. That’s a vote for the electronic war on the American people, a war that has robbed us of our privacy.
Is the NSA really reading all these things, and collecting all those phone calls? A long series of whistleblowers of which Mr. Snowden is only the latest say “yes”. We may go back to the revelation that AT&T had installed an optical splitting arrangement in major phone offices. As a result, a duplicate of the entire content passing down major optical telephone cable trunks was sent off into Federal hands.
That’s electronic warfare, and we the American people are the target.
America needs to replace its entire political establishment with new political parties, and a full set of new politicians, politicians who differ with each other on many issues, but who are not the declared enemies of the American people.
There are three boxes that will get us there: The Soap Box. The Donation box. The Ballot Box.
