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The NSA has a secret agenda: Collecting data and turning America into a police state
Submitted by Dave Hodges on Tuesday, October 22, 2019
By Vicki Batts
Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd
Conclusion by Pastor Boyd
Newstarget.com

The NSA is spying on innocent American citizens, but not for the reasons you might think. While the official stance seems to be that data collection and other intrusive forms of NSA surveillance are a matter of national security, behind closed doors the federal agency has a far more clandestine purpose.

As Edward Snowden explains in his tell-all memoir, Permanent Record, the NSA has a secret operation to sniff out and store every piece of electronic communication in existence — and store it permanently. There is no shortage of reasons why a government agency should not have a record of every single American citizen’s electronic communication records — not the least of which include the many ways such a database could be abused. Not only is it unconstitutional for the NSA to engage in such broad surveillance efforts, this kind of data collection is undoubtedly going to lay the foundation for a totalitarian regime. First they collect the information under “innocent” pretenses — then they start using the info for evil.
The Secret Program to Subvert Freedom

Writing for The American Conservative, Rod Dreher reports, Snowden’s memoir includes the details of how the world’s most wanted fugitive came across the NSA’s secret plans for post-9/11 intelligence gathering. Snowden accidentally came across the highly classified report on a program called “STELLARWIND” in 2009.

What he found was that this particular classified report didn’t look anything like the official version shared with the rest of the government. The NSA created a phony report for lawmakers in order to hide what it was really doing.

Snowden writes:
The US government was developing the capacity of an eternal law-enforcement agency. At any time, the government could dig through the past communications of anyone it wanted to victimize in search of a crime (and everybody’s communications contain evidence of something). At any point, for all perpetuity, any new administration — any future rogue head of the NSA — could just show up to work and, as easily as flicking a switch, instantly track everybody with a phone or a computer, know who they were, where they were, what they were doing with whom, and what they had ever done in the past.

If this sounds unconstitutional to you, that’s because it should be. What the NSA is doing is tantamount to treason.

Big Brother is Watching You

As Snowden explains, the metadata the NSA collects is even more important than the actual content of the communications. Metadata is “data about data” — and it can be extremely revealing. Metadata includes all the things you’re doing on or with your devices — and the stuff your devices do on their own. The NSA can use metadata to see what time you get up in the morning, where you go during the day, who you talk to and much more.

Essentially, metadata collection allows the NSA to stalk you. It’s the epitome of Big Brother, but it’s totally invisible and way more insidious. With metadata, the NSA can essentially “watch” everyone in the U.S. through their cellphones and other devices without their consent, and without provocation.

As Snowden notes further, metadata is autogenerated by your devices — you have no control over the information your cellphone’s metadata contains. While you can self-censor conversations if necessary, you cannot prevent your metadata from revealing who you’re talking to, when you spoke to them or how long you talked for.

As Dreher contends, no one collects this kind of information for benevolent purposes. While the NSA may be collecting all this information under the guise of national security, the t***h is that the federal agency has gone completely rogue and is working to undermine American freedom. Under their “eternal law enforcement agency” scheme, the United States would be turned into a totalitarian police state where Big Brother knows all, sees all, controls all — and We the People are under constant scrutiny and observation.

Conclusion by Pastor Boyd

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court ruled last year that the FBI’s use of electronic surveillance tools to scoop up terabytes of data on Americans — without a warrant or probable cause — is a violation of federal law and the Fourth Amendment.

The Wall Street Journal reports:
The intelligence community disclosed Tuesday that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court last year found that the FBI’s pursuit of data about Americans ensnared in a warrantless internet-surveillance program intended to target foreign suspects may have violated the law authorizing the program, as well as the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.

The paper noted further that the court “concluded that the FBI had been improperly searching a database of raw intelligence for information on Americans — raising concerns about oversight of the program, which as a spy program operates in near secrecy.”

Recommended Reading for Your Enlightenment

In A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, John W. Whitehead charts America's t***sition from a society governed by "we the people" to a police state governed by the strong arm of the law. In such an environment, the law becomes yet another tool to oppress the people.

As a constitutional attorney of national prominence, and as president of The Rutherford Institute, an international civil liberties organization, Whitehead has been at the forefront of the fight for civil liberties in this country. The recurring theme at the heart of A Government of Wolves is that the American people are in grave danger of losing their basic freedoms. The simple fact is that the Constitution - and in particular the Bill of Rights - is being undermined on virtually every front. Indeed, everything America was founded upon is in some way being challenged. The openness and freedom that were once the hallmarks of our society are now in peril.

We were once a society that valued individual liberty and privacy. But in recent years we have turned into a culture that has quietly accepted surveillance cameras, police and drug-sniffing dogs in our children's schools, national databases that track our finances and activities, sneak-and-peek searches of our homes without our knowledge or consent, and anti-terrorism laws that turn average Americans into suspects.

In short, America has become a lockdown nation (as much as N**i Germany was by the Gestapo), and we are all in danger. A Government of Wolves not only explains these acute problems but is a call to action offering timely and practical initiatives for Americans to take charge of present course of history and stop the growing police state. But time is running out. We are at a critical juncture and every citizen who values his or her personal freedom needs to pay close attention to the message in this book!

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