Treading on Us
In 2010, Republican candidates for office insisted there was a Democratic intrusion into individual privacy rights. Tea Partiers started waving The Constitution around and claiming that Democrats were stealing our individual freedom and liberty away. Then Congressional candidate Frank Guinta told the Dover Tea Party in 2009 that “they have been ensuring that more government intervention and oversight is taking over our lives each and every day. This has to stop.” He told the Portsmouth Tea Party in 2010, "We said enough. Enough of taking our freedom, enough of taking our liberty."
The tea-party Republicans won across the nation, in large measure due to these kinds of claims. So, it’s fair to examine how the Republicans have voted on privacy rights in the 112th Congress. It’s also startling and worrisome.
There are several legislative actions with huge implications for privacy, but I want to focus on two. One was an amendment, House Amendment 97 to HR 1, the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011. An American Library Association publication, The District Dispatch: News for Friends of Libraries, said this amendment would improve privacy protections under the PATRIOT Act. This amendment would refuse to allow the U.S. government to spend any money under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to force a library to turn over its circulation records, library patron lists, book sales records, or book customer lists. If passed, this would mean the library would not be forced to tell the government what you or anyone at your town library was reading, or what books you bought at the “books for sale” table unless the government had a warrant. The Republican Congress, including both New Hampshire members, voted "NO" to an individual's right to privacy. They had a chance to protect innocent library users and refused. Percentage-wise, there are very few times the U.S. government needs to see public library records, but there are some—and an easily obtained warrant would have allowed that access while protecting the rest of us.
Another huge privacy issue involves Facebook and other social networking websites. There have been recent news reports of employers demanding employees’ or job applicants’ passwords to their Facebook or email accounts so the employer can look at anything he or she wants to look at. This is an outrageous violation of privacy. What's next, the keys to someone's house? Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter recently tried to stop this snooping. He proposed adding an amendment to H.R. 3309, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Process Reform Act of 2012. He said nothing in that bill should restrict the FCC’s authority to “protect online privacy, including requirements…that prohibit licensees or regulated entities from mandating that job applicants or employees disclose confidential passwords to social networking sites.” Simply stated, the amendment said the FCC would be able to protect individuals' online privacy. The Republican Congress thought otherwise, and said "NO" to your right to privacy.
In the North Carolina Congressional race (NC-10), Republican primary candidate Ken Fortenberry was upset that his opponent, the incumbent, did not protect individual privacy and freedom. He asked, "How can anyone who honestly believes in respecting the rights of citizens to free speech be in favor of robbing them of their Constitutional rights through this invasion of privacy? Maybe we should ask [US Rep. Patrick] McHenry for the passwords to his social media accounts."
So, how did our two NH members of the House of Representatives vote? They voted against our freedom and against our individual right to privacy. How would Congressman Guinta or Congressman Bass feel about handing over to us, the people who are their employers, the passwords to their private Facebook accounts?
This is just wrong. Our government and our businesses must be vigilant, but not bullying. Alert, but not fearful. Careful, but not liberty trampling. These attitudes have given us the freest nation in the world, and the next generation and the one after that deserve the same gift of freedom. I am proud to be a direct descendent of General John Stark who said, “Live free or die.” New Hampshire’s members of Congress, Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass, need to stop voting against our individual liberties. They need to stop treading on us and let us live free.
JIM
8:22 am on Saturday, April 14, 2012
shay porter ..what a joke !!! the only job this commiecrat ever '' saved or created '' was when we fired her
JIM
1:52 pm on Saturday, April 14, 2012
.our new '' FLOUNDERING FATHERS '' led by barack obama and the communist democrat party, have written a new document to guide America into its socialist /marxist/communist future, serfs of America , the communist democrat party is proud to give you
JIM
1:52 pm on Saturday, April 14, 2012
…………………THE DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE……………………………….
When in the course of human events ,it becomes necessary for a government, that was originally, of the people, by the people and for the people, to become ,of the govt ,by the govt and for the govt and dissolve the liberty’s and freedoms of its free people.
We hold these truths to be self evident ,that this govt can do better for the people than they can do for themselves and the people are not its equal and it has endowed upon its creator barack obama, undeniable rights ,so that it might grant its creator the pursuit of happiness ,that the people should willingly pay for. And to secure this right ,this govt must derive its powers ,not from the people, but over the people ,because the govt knows how to run your lives , far better than the people do, and when ever any dissenting people, become destructive to its ends, it is the right of the govt ,to step in and abolish any rights the people might have thought they had, Let us, your govt, provide for you, so that you might have everything …WE.. want you to have, in order to make the illusion that your getting some form of life ,liberty, and the pursuit of everyone being equal, the people must all pledge, to give the govt, their lives ,their fortunes and their sacred obedience , so that we can distribute it equally and fairly among all men, even to those, who will do nothing for themselves or their fellow serfs.
Fred R
10:55 pm on Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Carol,
Go bake a cake or something, will you?
Joseph DeVore
4:25 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012
Liberty ^_^
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security"
-Thomas Jefferson
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
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The constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government
-Patrick Henry
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The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
– John F. Kennedy
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1778
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Joseph DeVore
4:25 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012
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Benjamin Franklin
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Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
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Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.
Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security
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Joseph DeVore
4:25 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012
James Otis
“You will remember that this Province has been at very great Expence in carrying on the late Warr, and that it still ly under a very grievous burden of Debt, you will therefore use your utmost endeavor to promote Publick frugaility as one Means to lessen the Publick Debt …” (May 24, 1764, Boston town instructions to their representatives in the House)
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The Boston representatives were further directed to minimize government expenditures in order to reduce debt. Regarding regulations, the Boston bench was told that they should “make it the Object of your attention to support our Commerce.” Then the instructions confront the proposed new taxes, which they adamantly opposed. (Arsonist, pg 205)
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“But what hightens our Apprehensions is that those unexpected proceedings may be preparitory to new Taxations upon us; For if our Trade may be taxed why not our Lands? Why not the produce of our Lands and every Thing we possess? … If these Taxes are laid upon us [without consent] are we not reduced to the miserable state of Tributary Slaves?” (May 24, 1764, Boston town instructions, Arsonist, pg 206)
Joseph DeVore
4:25 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012
James Otis
The taxes being debated (in the above quote) were the Sugar Act taxes, which were followed the next year by the Stamp Act taxes. Otis began his long march against taxation in 1760 when he charged the taxing authorities with corruption and argued his famous case against warrants in Feb 1761. By 1765, the government of Massachusetts was in the hands of Otis (he was elected speaker the following year) and royal government authority was non-existent in the province.
Joseph DeVore
4:25 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012
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LIVE FREE OR DIE, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH, for DEATH IS NOT THE WORST OF THE TWO EVILS
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He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
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This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians. – Hugh Downs (1997)
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H.L. Mencken
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hands are properly his. – John Locke, 1690
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Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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Allot of Quotes I've collected ^_^
JIM
10:12 am on Sunday, April 22, 2012
Joe , if only we could unit the patriots of this great nation to stand up for their liberties as one ,we could take back our govt from those who wish for power over the people instead of power for the people in my Declaration of Dependence post what I wrote was true, we are no longer a govt of the people,by the people and for the people , our republic is DEAD , our laws are only for those not in power , our courts & socialist / marxist / communist judges make it up as they go along , our bill of rights is being shredded by the power hungry , both parties are to blame but the left has teamed up with terrorists , communist, marxist ,socialists and any one else who will support their dominance in our , I mean their govt, while the people of our great nation stand by with ready arms and lean on their loaded weapons as a crutch the people in power erode our rights one by one , what good is free speech if it falls on deaf ears ,what good is freedom of the press if the people in power run the presses , what good is our second amendment right if those who fight to keep their weapons fear to use them for what the second amendment was crafted for, no truer words were spoken as ..'' United We Stand Divided We Fall '' ...WE MUST UNITE !!
Joseph DeVore
7:37 pm on Sunday, April 22, 2012
Indeed... Jim......
But all the work of the NWO.....
One very Important thing is Living in Harmony with Nature ;^_^;
All these Wars do is Destroy resources..... raping this world of its natural Resources.. ;_;
your Dec of Dep was funny in a (I believe) Sarcastic way right? loi...
There allot of Problem inc the Viral Warfare through Vaccinations (ie Chemicals in the Vaccines not just the Bugs themselves)
Check out the This when you get a chance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibqdwHyZxk