Technicalities of Terror
Crossposted at Stop The ACLU
Why does the ACLU seek FOIA files on the NSA Surveillance program? Perhaps this can shed a little light on the subject.
We could all see this coming.
Back in December, Iyman Faris, the only named American target of the National Security Agency's secret warrantless wiretap program announced his consideration of a lawsuit against the president of the United States. To accomplish this goal, his lawyer David Smith issued an all points bulletin for civil liberties attorneys and constitutional scholars interested in taking up his client's case.
The offer comes at a time of concern among civil liberties attorneys, who worry that the courts may never get a chance to adjudicate the legality of President Bush's secret wiretap program. "Courts don't like to hear hypothetical matters," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty program, who has been preparing for a court battle. "There has to be a real plaintiff with a real injury."Source
Despite Faris' admitted guilt, civil libertarians were chomping at the bit to get him off the hook.
In many ways, Faris is not an ideal plaintiff for attorneys who hope to focus their case on whether the president abused his authority by spying on innocent Americans. Faris' guilt is widely acknowledged, despite his recent claims of innocence. Among the evidence against him, prosecutors alleged that he sent a message to al-Qaida leadership in 2003 claiming that "the weather is too hot," a signal that he could not follow through with his Brooklyn Bridge plan.
But if civil libertarians wait for the perfect case, they may have to forgo a legal challenge altogether. The targets of the secret NSA program are classified, and barring additional leaks, it is unclear how innocent American citizens would discover that they have been monitored. "The reality is that the people in Fourth Amendment cases are rarely the people you would invite over to dinner," said Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
The ACLU's Steinhardt said he welcomed a phone call from Smith. "A likely route to this challenge is in the context of a criminal case," he said.
So it is no suprise that yesterday, Faris' lawyer asked a Federal judge to throw out his case due to the fact that he was spied on.
Iyman Faris' challenge is among the first to seek evidence of warrantless electronic eavesdropping by the National Security Agency, a practice that began after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Government officials have reportedly credited the practice with uncovering Faris' terrorist plot and several others.
A motion filed by Faris' attorney David Smith in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., argues that investigators improperly obtained evidence against Faris and that his trial lawyer was ineffective.
Given the likelihood that Faris' phone conversations or e-mails had been electronically monitored, Faris' trial lawyer, Frederick Sinclair, should have asked for evidence of such surveillance, Smith said in the motion.Source
Nevermind the fact that Faris pleaded guilty to conspiracy and aiding and abetting terrorism, he is now backtracking on that. He now says his guilty plea was false.
And there are others trying to get their terror convictions overturned.
A lawyer for Ali al-Timimi, an Islamic scholar in northern Virginia serving a life sentence for exhorting followers to fight U.S. troops, has said he plans to challenge his case based on NSA involvement. So has an attorney for Adham Amin Hassoun, a Lebanese-born Palestinian living in Florida who is charged with being part of a cell dedicated to supporting violent Muslim extremists.
Anyone see a trend emerging?
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Tyranny of the Socialist Theocracy
It has been stated by many liberal communists, that Christians are out to force a theocracy upon America that is to create a state religion based upon the Christian faith. This could not be farther from the truth. Considering the source of this misinformation; one should take it with a rather large grain of salt.
Close enough examination of the agendas of the far-left and it is easy to see that this is simply a case of the pot calling the kettle black. For the last 84 years or more, those on the far-left, hanging on the fringes of society by a thread, have been waging war on the Christian faith, and the freedoms of all Americans. What is their goal you may ask? It is simple enough to understand, but most Americans are still unaware of what is taking place right under their noses.
"The Goal is Communism," stated the founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin back in 1920 when he and several other fellow communists and socialists founded the so-called civil rights organization. Source
Many of these people had direct ties to the Communist Party in America, and almost all of them had the same goal in mind, to rid America of Christian influence, to strip the nation of every vestige of Christianity, and replace it with a new state religion based upon atheism, the religion of Marxism.
In Baldwin's book, "Liberty Under the Soviets", he praised the Soviet Union for the "far more significant freedom of workers" and the "liberty won for anti-religion." People who support this type of system think of it as the perfect utopia, a way to bring peace and safety to society, but this has never been the case. For every nation that has operated under this type of system has been guilty of the blood of millions of innocent persons. Communism always results in mass genocide, usually against those who maintain a faith in the God of the Bible, and seek to worship him alone according to the dictates of their conscious."Communism means barbarism." James Russell Lowell
The Old Soviet Union was known as the 'Iron Curtain', they murdered close to 61,000,000 people. China is well known for having a communist government, they have murdered close to 1,000,000, and there are several other countries we could talk about, but which ever way you slice it, communism is a deadly tyrannical system, and is NO peaceful paradise. History reveals the absolute tyranny and human rights abuses that resulted under socialist (Communist) regimes. Stalin, Lenin, and many others slaughtered millions of people in the name of communism.
This false ideology of a workers paradise where there is no worries, where the government takes care of everything, is the biggest political fraud ever. Communism always results in mass poverty among the people because the government owns everything, the people own nothing, and many starve to death.Source
"You must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible". Karl Marx / Manifesto of the Communist Party
Marx is saying that Christianity, and religion in general, is a hallucinogenic drug that people use to make themselves feel good. With the religion of Communism, called atheism/humanism, man becomes his own God! His pride in himself and his accomplishments that he credits himself with becomes his drug of choice!
Communism denies belief in the one true God because it sets itself up as God, the provider of all things to the people, demanding to be viewed as lord by the citizenry. One thing Mr. Marx did not take into account, in my opinion, is that his grave is occupied, while Christ's is empty!
"My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism". Karl Marx
Socialists have a twisted view of the Christian faith, it is their inner selfishness that blinds them from believing in the Supreme Being. It is just a form of Satan Worship that they are engaged in, hedonistic self-worship is mans ultimate downfall. See LaVeyan Satanism
Religion ... is the opium of the people. Karl Marx"Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff." Clare Booth Luce
Communism is a religion where the government sets itself up as God, to be worshipped by the people. It takes control of all the churches, and decides what churches can do, and what they cannot do. The church is turned into a propaganda tool for the corrupt government, and is can only preach what the government says it can. It is all too clear that those on the far-left are pushing to bring about this new theocracy in America, and they are using groups like the ACLU to undermine and strip us ever so slowly of our individual liberties. Since Atheism is the religion of Communism, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out exactly what they are up too. They are fighting to implement a socialistic system of government here in America for many years, and are close to experiencing their goal.
"War between Capitalism and Communism is inevitable...in order to win we will need the element of surprise, but the Bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep so we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions... stupid and decadent (Capitalist countries), they will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction." Demitri Manaillsky from the speech at the Lenin School of Political Warfare 1931
America has been put to sleep in essence, now the communists have come out in droves in our street, they march under the guise of so-called 'peace', they are known as the anti-war movement. This movement is made up of primarily young people who have been indoctrinated in the government run public school systems in America. They are products of the humanistic philosophy that has been ingrained in their heads for years. They have been taught and conditioned to reject Christianity without any real knowledge of what Christianity is, and have been brainwashed by the false theory of evolution. Their moral values have been replaced with liberal environMENTALism, animal rights propaganda, and the lie of homosexuality.
"The so-called "peace movement" today is led by the same hate-America radicals who supported America's totalitarian enemies during the Cold War. They marched in support of the Vietcong, the Sandinista Marxists and the Communist guerrillas in El Salvador. Before that, they marched in behalf of Stalin and Mao. They still support Castro and the nuclear lunatic in North Korea, Kim Jong-Il. They are the friends in deed of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. What prompts American radicals to make common cause with such monsters?" David Horowitz
"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." Nikita Khrushchev
Have we been our own worst enemy electing unscrupulous politicians with evil intentions? There are many liberals in Congress today with communist type agendas in mind, they are the Democrats, and they largely endorse, and have aided in the stealing of our freedom, and the establishment of the state religion, atheistic communism. They have implemented such things as gun control that requires citizens to register their weapons with the state, and often will deny gun ownership to many law-abiding citizens, passing bogus laws that violate our constitutional rights. The ACLU claims to be the protector of our civil rights, but they are of course in favor of gun control?"Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty." Vladimir Lenin" A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie." Vladimir I. Lenin, first leader of the Soviet Union"
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Have we been handed the rope with which our enemies intend to hang us with?
We must speak out and expose their tyrannical plan to overthrow our nation, and turn it into the next "Iron Curtain" country. We have seen and heard the horror stories that came out from behind the iron curtain of the Soviet Union, and we have heard all about China's human rights abuses.See Here
The truth is that if the good folks of America continue to do nothing, we will be the next country on the list of nations that have committed atrocities in the name of Socialism. Friends, legalized abortion on demand is just the starting point for America's Communists, the next step is clear, just look back at history and you will see the road we are heading down.We must organize against groups like the ACLU, the legal activist arm of the Communist Party USA!
We must stop the hostile takeover of America by the enemies of freedom.Let God-fearing Americans rise up and root out the communist agenda from the halls of the federal government. Let us enter the great institutions of our land and reclaim them from those who have used them for their personal tools of communist propaganda. Let us place good and decent men and women on the benches of our nations courts, and let us dominate society once again.
Our founding fathers did everything in their power to make sure that there would not be any type of state religion where the state has it's nose stuck in the churches business. However, they also never intended for Christians to be excluded from having a say in the affairs of government, or for those with traditional values to keep silent because of their Biblical beliefs. We as Christian Americans do not want a state run religion, we just want the moral and ethical boundaries that made this country great left intact for the good of all our citizens.
Let us expose the radical Communist agenda of the far-left and stop them from setting up their dark theocracy of hatred, and murder. Patriots of America unite under the red, white, and blue, and in the spirit of true freedom and justice stand against those who would enslave us in a culture of death and destruction.
Communism had killed millions, and continues in it's quest of creating the perfect society by destroying those who oppose them, sweeping them out of the way as Marx put it. Better for us to sweep Communism out of the way, and restore to this great nation, liberty, and justice for all.
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