Congress Somehow Magically Didnt Notice the FBI Created a Small Air Force to Spy on Us?By Melissa Dykes Via The Atlantic: Last week, Americans learned that even as the NSA collected information on their telephone and Internet behavior, the FBI was using fictitious companies to secretly operate what the AP called a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cell phone surveillance technology. The news organization reported that surveillance flights may be more than a decade old, and identified more than 100 flights since late April orbiting both major cities and rural areas. The merits of this program will now be debated. Debated? As in, in the press? Ha.Ha ha HA. More like discussed just long enough to make people angry, give them a steam valve to vent, and meanwhile not much will change. Kinda like the Snowden leaks that get slow-dripped out to the citizens every once in a while as they have been for the last two years. Those have been debated. Has anything changed? Hardly. The Atlantic continues: Whats already clear, however, is the anti-democratic nature of keeping it hidden all these years. The U.S. is supposed to be governed by the people. Whether Americans want a federal law-enforcement agency using planes to conduct surveillance on vast swaths of the country is a question properly aired and debated. It is for Americans to choose. Quite obviously we dont get to choose. Notice we are told what is clear about this secret FBI program being revealed is just how anti-democratic it is to keep the FBIs spy fleet secret from the citizens all these years. Its as if they are still pretending we are a Republic that adheres to democratic principles that our government is still even remotely governed by the people. Oh sure, its governed by a few key people, but in no way is our government still governed by The People. Apparently, though, according to The Atlantic: many of the FBIs ostensible overseers in Congress dont know much more than the public, either. This is evident from letters that legislators have written in recent days. Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee,demanded to be briefed no later than this week on the scope, nature, and purpose of these operations and what legal authorities, if any, are being relied upon in carrying out these operations. Sixteen House members wrote to the FBI, pointing out that the president had just signed a reform ending the bulk collection of phone records. It is highly disturbing, they wrote, to learn that your agency may be doing just that and more with a secret fleet of aircraft engaged in surveillance missions. They asked for the FBI to identify the legal theory used to justify the flights, the circumstances surrounding them, the technologies on the aircraft, the privacy policy used for data collected, and the civil liberties safeguards that had been put in place. These are the legislators we the American people voted in place to oversee whats going on in our government? Yeah, right. Look how well that is working out as the big brother police state looms over us, growing larger by the hour. This whole situation proves our democratic processes are nothing more than complete shams. Our government ignores its own laws. What were seeing isnt a government anymore. Its total tyranny. Case in point: our president has made it clear wants a national civilian security force and he wants it to be as big as the combined national military force. Following the Baltimore riots, his mouthpiece Al Sharpton, was calling for the nationalization of police. Homeland Security is just the beginning.We know that the FBI, DEA and U.S. Marshals service all have their own secret fleets ofspy planes now. These planes use high-definition cameras to take videos of us from above. We are under constant, sweeping government surveillance, Bill of Rights be damned. And even worse, according to The New American, the Justice Departments recently published privacy policy for federal agencies use of surveillance drones (unmanned aircraft) does not apply topilotedaircraft. Apparently Americans are afforded protection from being spied on only if its done by remote control. Its not surprising that our thoroughly corrupt and disappointing Congress is acting clueless as another brick gets placed in the wall. Anything else would require them to actually do their jobs and represent thepeopleinstead of just attending fundraisers and turning a blind eye to the cancerous tyranny enveloping the U.S. Worse, though, is the medias fake outrage, a misleading outlet for the average persons anger and feelings of yet another government betrayal, a free speech zone for that meaningless public debate that will change nothing. Melissa Dykes is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this article first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up! cia,nsa,tsa,atf,dea,dhs,fema and countless others need airplaneslooks like they can take a back seat to the fbi. A country of freedom and liberty! But, what does that mean? What is freedom? What is liberty? Is freedom simply the ability to walk down the street when you want? Is freedom the ability to drive to California in January? Who gives you this freedom? How about liberty? Is liberty the freedom to do as one pleases? What is the context when we say freedom and liberty? Freedom and liberty is freedom and liberty from government to live our lives in peace, comfort and freedom from an overreaching government! This was defined at a time shortly after the peope of America faught a war against the English! They wanted to make sure we did not end up with another authoritarian kingdom! Freedom and liberty as defined in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution is all about freedom and liberty from our government! WOW! How stupid we have become! The county of freedom and liberty has come full circle to be everything opposite of those two words! Its discusting and embarassing! 