April 14, 2024
Two days ago, the House of Representatives, now with a one-seat GOP majority due to their own stupidity (and in my opinion, corruption), voted to re-authorize the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) spying program, so that our government can spy on you and I without a warrant.
Good job.
What you might not know is: Buried within this bill was a clause to exclude members of Congress from the law.
Yes, you heard me right. Now that the bill has passed, every American citizen can now be surveilled without a warrant except your members of Congress.
Why did they do this?
Well, the working theory among experts is: Congressional members know too well that our “Intelligence Community” (a term that’s an oxymoron, aka: “The Deep State”; you know, the 51 “Intelligence” Officers who signed the letter stating the Hunter Biden laptop was planted by Russia, knowing all-the-while that it was really his) has plenty of surveillance “dirt” on each of them.
And so, they want to be excluded when legalizing governmental surveillance on U.S citizens, which is unconstitutional, while at the same time voting that you, their constituents who pay their salaries, can be surveilled by the government without them having to secure a warrant (even though the Constitution, which they continuously ignore, requires it).
That is typical D.C. logic for you. If it helps them, they do it. If it hurts you, they do it. If it helps you, they won’t do it.
Rules for thee but not for me.
The FISA warrants, I’m sure you remember, were the warrants used to illegally surveil President Trump’s campaign. And the FBI illegally obtained them. So, all-in-all, maybe the legislation doesn’t matter anyways. The “Intelligence” agencies just bowl over or fudge the law whenever they want to. (They are lawless.)
Naturally, President Trump sent out his message to the House GOP prior to the vote: do not reauthorize this program, especially without the warrant requirement for American citizens.
The U.S. Constitution under the 4th amendment says that a warrant is needed to surveil an American citizen, and no such warrant will be authorized without probable cause. And so, this bill, on its face, is unconstitutional. (And it should be challenged in front of the Supreme Court, in my opinion. Hope to God it will be and it will be overturned.)
And then there is the other, even bigger, kicker: The bill included an amendment, added by Rep. Andy Biggs, that was very logical and sensible. It said that the FISA program could be approved in order to provide the “Intelligence Agencies” with the right to surveil foreigners, however, when the “Intelligence Agencies” were surveilling a foreigner and that surveillance raised concerns about communication happening with an American citizen, i.e.: a potential terrorist attack being coordinated; that the appropriate U.S. law enforcement department would need to get a warrant to spy on the American. Unless the attack seemed imminent – then the warrant requirement would be excluded due to the time it may take to obtain one.
The amendment would have prohibited “warrantless searches of U.S. person communications in the FISA 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, or known cybersecurity threat signatures.”
But 86 Republicans and 126 Democrats voted “No” on the warrant requirement for American citizens.
This vote (for this warrant amendment) was tied, 212 Nays to 212 Yays. And so, the ever-compromising-bend-over-backwards-to-suck-up-to-the-left, supposed “Biblical World-View” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who was supposed to bring us more integrity to the position and honor conservative principles better than McCarthy did, had to come down from his chair and vote on the floor to break the tie.
He voted in favor of reauthorization of this spying program, without the requirement of a warrant for American citizens.
Good job, Spineless Speaker. Good job.
Here is an article about the bill and the vote: https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-speaker-johnson-among-86-republicans-who-sunk-warrant-mandate-amendment
Here is another article, which explains that the Biden administration “strongly opposes” the warrant requirement for American citizens. That fact, alone, should tell you all you need to know:
https://rollcall.com/2024/04/12/house-approves-surveillance-authority-reauthorization-bill
So, what would be your reasons, 86 House Republicans for not voting for this amendment requiring warrants for spying on American citizens, and for you passing the bill without it? And for excluding yourselves?
There simply cannot be any other explanation other than that they are compromised. How else would you justify giving these overbearing, overstepping, bowl-over-your-constitutional-rights “Intelligence” agencies, this kind of power, especially given their horrendous track records? They’ve violated every law known to man! They go after pro-life Catholics; parents who don’t want their young children exposed to pornography; they lock up J6 peaceful protesting patriots for years, without arraignments, while they let go radicals who burn down cities; and worst of all, they abuse this spying program against their political opponents.
Wow, Congress. Wow. Good job.
You may think, like me, that this doesn’t really matter because, like me, you’ll never have to worry about some foreigner communicating with you about anything to do with anything dangerous to the U.S., in any way.
You aren’t doing anything illegal, so why should funding this citizen surveillance program matter to you?
But it’s about more than that, America.
It’s about the principal of the matter.
It’s about why members of Congress would exempt themselves from what they’re willing to subject you and I to. It’s about the abuses of this program in the past that have come out with an abundance of evidence, in fact totally discrediting and revealing the truth about our “Intelligence Agencies.”
(Pssst: They aren’t “Intelligent” at all; they’re Immoral.)
America, your Congress is compromised. You have to accept this and get rid of them. You have to vote them out of office. As citizens who fund them, we can’t be subjected to illegal searches and surveillance when Congress exempts themselves!! That is ridiculous and hideous.
And here they are:
Good job, hypocritical government officials who exempt yourselves but subject the rest of us to warrantless surveillance. You fund that program for another 2 years, yet you will not do so much as demand the border be sealed, in exchange.
What does the “Deep State” have on you because you cave to the Dems way too easily.
Good job.
Jeremiah 5:20-31
21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear:
22 Should you not fear me?” declares the Lord.
“Should you not tremble in my presence?
I made the sand a boundary for the sea,
an everlasting barrier it cannot cross.
The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail;
they may roar, but they cannot cross it.
23 But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts;
they have turned aside and gone away.
24 They do not say to themselves,
‘Let us fear the Lord our God,
who gives autumn and spring rains in season,
who assures us of the regular weeks of harvest.’
25 Your wrongdoings have kept these away;
your sins have deprived you of good.
26 “Among my people are the wicked
who lie in wait like men who snare birds
and like those who set traps to catch people.
27 Like cages full of birds,
their houses are full of deceit;
they have become rich and powerful
28 and have grown fat and sleek.
Their evil deeds have no limit;
they do not seek justice.
They do not promote the case of the fatherless;
they do not defend the just cause of the poor.
29 Should I not punish them for this?”
declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge myself
on such a nation as this?
30 “A horrible and shocking thing
has happened in the land:
31 The prophets prophesy lies,
the priests rule by their own authority,
and my people love it this way.
But what will you do in the end?
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