The great thing about Echelon/Prism style surveillance is all of your email and phone records are captured before you are even under suspicion. Then a retroactive search warrant (or bored contractor) can instigate a search against you dating back to the start of the program. It's akin to everyone having their postal mail scanned. And really, do we seriously think that isn't a feature of the mail sorters in the new centralized sorting centers?
Not that it makes it legal, but someone who was an ELF spokesman should not be surprised to have his mail searched. I'm not agreeing with the "terrorist" label necessarily, but a number of ELF folks are pretty well-known for blowing shit up.
@9 well you have spoken in the public square to be in favour of separating from the USA . Given that separatists are prone to violent acts, why are you surprised?
Wouldn't your utopian Cascadia do the same thing to protect itself?
Pathetic. This is how flimsy and hypocritical all the chanting about rights and freedom is. Revisionist run rampant on the founders and the constitution from all angles; Texas nut jobs write the atheist Jefferson out and down play any influence and the the liberal NW says you've got no right to be left alone if you disagree with the government.
@11
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
-4th Ammendment, The Bill of Rights
Funny because the founding fathers were seperatist themselves.
Now take that big goverment NSA spying democratic party cock further down your gullet you pathetic little bitch.
Freedom!
Wouldn't your utopian Cascadia do the same thing to protect itself?
- Newman
Mmm, sports and beer ...
"you're a suspect and shouldn't be surprised"
Pathetic. This is how flimsy and hypocritical all the chanting about rights and freedom is. Revisionist run rampant on the founders and the constitution from all angles; Texas nut jobs write the atheist Jefferson out and down play any influence and the the liberal NW says you've got no right to be left alone if you disagree with the government.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
-4th Ammendment, The Bill of Rights
Funny because the founding fathers were seperatist themselves.
Now take that big goverment NSA spying democratic party cock further down your gullet you pathetic little bitch.
@10
That was a good one, I LOLd
@14
Right on!