Hillary Clinton: Laws passed after 9/11 gave the executive branch too much authority
Source: The Guardian
By Dan Roberts, The Guardian
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:17 EDT
Hillary Clinton has thrown her weight behind political efforts to rein in US surveillance powers in her most forthright criticism yet of the National Security Agency (NSA).
The former secretary of state, who has hitherto largely stayed out of the debate sparked by leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, called on Congress to restore constitutional privacy protections weakened after terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre.
“We are finally taking stock of the laws that we passed after 9/11,” she told Fox News interviewer Greta Van Susteren. “We did all of this in an a hurry because we were worried and scared and now we need to take a step back and figure out how we make sure that the balance between liberty and security is right.”
Clinton, who admitted in an earlier CNN interview that she had disagreed with her husband’s cautious support for Snowden, defended the government’s legal right to carry out some bulk collection of American data but said she now backed efforts in Congress to change the law.
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- When Congress can write our rights in, then they can also right them out. Those aren't rights. Rights are either YOURS to have and to hold; or what we've got is PURE BULLSHIT that can be altered on a whim.......
In other words, declarations of laws and rights are actually an acknowledgment of the failures of the social design. There is no such thing as 'rights' - as the reference can be altered at will. The fourth amendment is an attempt to protect against state power abuse, that is clear. But it avoids the real issue, and that is: Why would the state have an interest to search and seize to begin with? How do you remove the mechanisms that generate such behavior? We need to focus on the real cause.
We have to understand that government as we know it today, is not in place for the well being of the public, but rather for the perpetuation of their establishment and their power. Just like every other institution within a monetary system. Government is a monetary invention for the sake of economic and social control and its methods are based upon self-preservation, first and foremost. All a government can really do is to create laws to compensate for an inherent lack of integrity within the social order.
In society today the public is essentially kept distracted and uninformed. This is the way that governments maintain control. If you review history, power is maintained through ignorance.
~Peter Joseph
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