Even though I knew it wouldn't pass I'm still angry over this. Today's vote in the House on the Amash amendment to stop NSA spying on Americans demonstrated clearly that Republicans and Democrats hate your civil liberties so why do you keep voting for them?
House rejects effort to curb NSA surveillance powers, 205-217 - The Hill's DEFCON Hill
Here is the roll call vote
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml
I feel your pain, Dont Taz Me Bro, and I don't care for the idea that there are people mining government data eager to hand over information to spies and loudmouth limes from individuals with a vested interest in destroying America.
We're however, in a war on terror, and when used appropriately, information can prevent, say, another Boston Marathon bombing. The people who brought that around were benefitting from social welfare, were designated onto lists of undesirables, yet nothing was done to remove them in spite of international warnings from at least two countries with capitols in Europe.
The failure of Homeland Security to detect this was pretty much the same as when things were properly dealt with under another administration. They just got careless, and about the time details are uncovered as to why the laziness of bureaucrats in these agencies going straight to the top, diversions are constructed to take the onus off Obama, as he pretenses indignation of poor Americans and sends the hounds of hell to Florida to incite people to rioting on cue as needed for political gain.
Other conjuring stalemates are criticism of Congress that is trying with might and main to keep spending low in order to ameliorate the reality of printing money that has no backing and spending that in place of traditional constitutional spending that is to be ordered by Congress. With fiscal onus off itself, the executive branch now has the mien of more power than the Constitution bestowed, having sidestepped the American system of any fiscal sanity it once enjoyed.
It's too bad we are losing privacy. With all error known, political power in the United States is limitless to those who keep blacklists of political opponents.
I don't have an answer, except to say wise people know that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Power brokers in Washington have gone nuts by placing a wealth redistributor at the top echelon of power that the Presidency is. That is the enemy of all I know to be the free enterprise system America was patterned to be to free men from Monarchs, who were noted for using information to eliminate rivals to their power.
That seems to me to be what Democrats are centering on--absolute, unopposed, raw power to decimate political rivals.
