Why do you fear the government?

This is a question that Progressive Liberals love to ask. “What’s there to be afraid of?” The answer most people give is that our rights are being taken away from us. The Progressive Liberal Democrats usually scoff when they hear this.

Well, perhaps they should try reading something other then the New York Slimes and Huffington ((Huffing: Inhalant Abuse)) Post. Our federal government has been abusing and ignoring the god given rights of the American people for over a century. However, with the advent of the Information Age, both the abuse and the awareness of this abuse have increased exponentially.

For instance, did you know that the Internal Revenue Service has decided they can read your email without a warrant? No? Well they apparently are in violation of a court ruling. Here are some details from The Blaze:

Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from the ACLU reveal that the Internal Revenue Service might think it has the ability to obtain communications without a warrant for its investigations of violations of tax law.

ACLU staff attorney Nathan Freed Wessler wrote that the documents received do not answer directly if the IRS obtains a warrant for emails, text messages and other communications, but “they suggest otherwise”

The documents the ACLU obtained make clear that, before Warshak, it was the policy of the IRS to read people’s email without getting a warrant. Not only that, but the IRS believed that the Fourth Amendment did not apply to email at all. A 2009 “Search Warrant Handbook” from the IRS Criminal Tax Division’s Office of Chief Counsel baldly asserts that “the Fourth Amendment does not protect communications held in electronic storage, such as email messages stored on a server, because internet users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications.” Again in 2010, a presentation by the IRS Office of Chief Counsel asserts that the “4^thAmendment Does Not Protect Emails Stored on Server” and there is “No Privacy Expectation” in those emails.

Well, this is the IRS. They have all sorts of privileges to squeeze the taxpayers. I’m sure they have gone to the courts and been cleared to do this, right? According to The Raw Story, no.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), commonly thought of as accountants with the power to garnish wages and seize property, is also a law enforcement agency with the power to spy on communications, so it’s not totally surprising that it has typically followed Supreme Court precedent regarding law enforcement’s broad spying powers when it comes to emails more than 180 days old.

However, in a ruling issued December 2010, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the IRS to always obtain a warrant before rifling through emails, no matter how old, contained on services like Gmail and Yahoo Mail, which otherwise have significantly less privacy protections than, for instance, encrypted communications stored on a home computer.

And of course, the IRS lawyers promptly issued memos on getting the required warrants.

The first indication as to whether the ruling truly made the agency change its ways came in January, 2011, the ACLU’s documents reveal. In an email titled after the case’s name, US v. Warshak, an IRS criminal prosecution attorney wrote: “I have not heard anything related to this opinion. We have always taken the position that a warrant is necessary when retrieving e-mails that are less than 180 days old.”

Uh huh. So, I guess we might have a small issue here, but this must be an outlier and will soon be corrected. Not in New York. As you may know, the State of New York has been going all out to suppress the constitutional rights of gun owners. Now, the confiscation of people’s property, in violation of the Second, 4^th and 5^th amendments has begun. Again, from The Blaze:

Despite promises from the president and a host of other politicians who are pushing for more gun control that nobody is coming for your guns, the confiscation of guns and gun permits has apparently started in some form in New York State. One attorney representing several people who have been forced to surrender their guns spoke with TheBlaze and alerted us to some disturbing facts:

• Gun owners are losing their 2nd Amendment rights without due process.
• HIPAA Laws are likely being compromised and the 4th and 5th Amendments are being violated in some of these cases

What the heck is all this? How can they do this?

How did confiscation start happening so quickly? Apparently the gun grabbing was triggered by something inside the NY SAFE Act — New York’s new gun law — that has a provision apparently mandating confiscation of weapons and permits if someone has been prescribed psychotropic drugs. This is curious because in his January 9th address, Cuomo specifically addressed the issue of confiscation.

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So, as we all knew, Cuomo is a liar. His goal, and the goal of all the Progressive Liberal Elites is the disarming of the American people. They have to do this in order to do away with the constitution once and for all. Is this an active conspiracy? No, I doubt it. I think it it’s just the herd instinct that all Progressives have. They can’t handle individuality and true free thought. It frightens them.

When one of their masters decides that “Something has to be done” all the little Progressive Liberal lemmings quickly make tracks for the cliff. This is why so many people are concerned about and are now fearing the Federal Government. Our congress, with backup from the courts is supposed to reign in out of control agencies and presidents. Lately, they have abrogated their duties. Here’s another case in question.

Have you ever heard of Megaupload.com? It was an online storage system based outside of the United States. Well, the Hollywood studios decided they wanted them shut down, allegedly for copyright violations. Rather then handle this in the civil courts, they dumped a load of “Evidence” on the desk of the FBI and instructed them to “Go get them!”

The FBI talked to their pals in the New Zealand government and initiated what turned out to be a blatantly illegal spying campaign against the founder. (Illegal under New Zealand law) The FBI had the founder, Kim Dotcom, arrested and demanded his extradition. Needless to say. Dotcom fought this and that was when all the illegal activities by all the federal agencies, both here and in New Zealand, came out.

Another problem was the attempt by the FBI to serve papers on Kim Dotcom. The company is not based in the United States and has no presence here. That doesn’t bother the FBI to much. They will just change the rules to suit themselves. Here’s a few details from Techdirt.com. They have been following this debacle from the beginning.

This one is a bit old, but it appears that nothing’s happened on it yet. cosmicwonderful alerts us to the fact that, back in October, the DOJ asked the federal courts to amend the rules on serving criminal complaints to foreign companies. As you may recall, the Justice Department ran into a bit of a hiccup when the courts first realized that Megaupload is a foreign corporation with no US address, and that the federal rules on issuing an arrest warrant or summons requires that a copy be sent to “the organization’s last known address within the district or to its principal place of business elsewhere in the United States.”

But what if there is no business in the US? That’s what the DOJ and Megaupload have been fighting about in the courts, though the courts have (so far) said that the DOJ can proceed. Still, with this requested amendment, the DOJ makes it clear it doesn’t want to run into this issue again.

The Department of Justice recommends amendments to Rule 4 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to permit the effective service of a summons on a foreign organization that has no agent or principal place of business within the United States. We view the proposed amendments to be necessary in order to effectively prosecute foreign organizations that engage in violations of domestic criminal law.

First, we recommend that Rule 4 be amended to remove the requirement that a copy of the summons be sent to the organization’s last known mailing address within the district or principal place of business within the United States. Second, we recommend that Rule 4 be amended to provide the means to serve a summons upon an organization located outside the United States. The proposed amendments are necessary to ensure that organizations that commit domestic offenses are not able to avoid liability through the simple expedients of declining to maintain an agent, place of business and mailing address within the United States.

Basically, the United States Government wants to extend our laws outside the boundaries of the United States. We’ve seen this happen in the past, down to federal agents grabbing someone in a foreign country and delivering them to a courthouse. (Usually American citizens)

I wouldn’t be surprised to see this amendment eventually go through, though it still does seem somewhat questionable to think that the US government can bring criminal charges against a foreign company with no physical presence within the US.

People talk about Imperial America, and this is one reason why. It’s bad enough that people are being thrown in jail for using the wrong chipping label, or trying to help an injured woodpecker ((The Federal Government’s Unnecessary Arrests, Overcriminalization)). Now they want to go after foreign nationals in other countries that are doing things that may be perfectly legal in their homelands.

So, no, there’s no reason to fear the government. They are here to help us. They will take good care of us. All we have to do is utterly submit to their rule.

Hell NO!!

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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