ティージェーグレェ「teajaygrey」 on Nostr: firefly I am not a lawyer, let alone a Constitutional scholar, but it seems to me ...
firefly (npub16a3…hqv6) I am not a lawyer, let alone a Constitutional scholar, but it seems to me that so-called surveillance capitalism is inherently in violation of the 5th Amendment and rights to privacy.
Then again, so is legislation such as CALEA and the USA Freedom Act (previously known as the PATRIOT Act) are essentially attacks against the fifth amendment entirely. Deliberate, and intentional, backed by a Congress manipulated into waging a war; which was never justified based upon the merits of why countries such as Afghanistan were invaded in the first place.
Many others have already decried POTUS George W. Bush's actions in that era as being reminiscent of the Burning of the Reichstag and the subsequent rise to power of the NAZIs in Germany leading up to WWII.
But, unlike Lord of the Rings (unless you watch the Peter Jackson movies instead of reading the books) there has been no "The Scouring of the Shire" to restore the USA to its previous non-Sherriff infested police state. So, instead we have many advocating to defund and disarm the police, while they continue to give themselves raises and Congress just passed a budget approving 886 billion dollars for defense in 2023.
We are well past the Eisenhower warnings of the "military industrial complex" which the coward coined during his exit speech, and deeply into the "mercenary industrial complex" full of chicanery and corruption, while the USA has what, over 30 trillion in debts?
That it hasn't already collapsed like the Roman empire millennia ago which overexerted itself on mercenaries and empire building is beyond me.
But, I don't need to look very far to see countless homeless all around me. I can just look in the mirror too.
This country is in a decline, at a minimum and Facebook/Meta/IG/Threads, Alphabet/YouTube/Google, Amazon/Netflix/etc. just seem to be fanning the flames.
Then again, so is legislation such as CALEA and the USA Freedom Act (previously known as the PATRIOT Act) are essentially attacks against the fifth amendment entirely. Deliberate, and intentional, backed by a Congress manipulated into waging a war; which was never justified based upon the merits of why countries such as Afghanistan were invaded in the first place.
Many others have already decried POTUS George W. Bush's actions in that era as being reminiscent of the Burning of the Reichstag and the subsequent rise to power of the NAZIs in Germany leading up to WWII.
But, unlike Lord of the Rings (unless you watch the Peter Jackson movies instead of reading the books) there has been no "The Scouring of the Shire" to restore the USA to its previous non-Sherriff infested police state. So, instead we have many advocating to defund and disarm the police, while they continue to give themselves raises and Congress just passed a budget approving 886 billion dollars for defense in 2023.
We are well past the Eisenhower warnings of the "military industrial complex" which the coward coined during his exit speech, and deeply into the "mercenary industrial complex" full of chicanery and corruption, while the USA has what, over 30 trillion in debts?
That it hasn't already collapsed like the Roman empire millennia ago which overexerted itself on mercenaries and empire building is beyond me.
But, I don't need to look very far to see countless homeless all around me. I can just look in the mirror too.
This country is in a decline, at a minimum and Facebook/Meta/IG/Threads, Alphabet/YouTube/Google, Amazon/Netflix/etc. just seem to be fanning the flames.