ABOLISH THE NSA

When the mainstream media in the United States has the courage of Ivan Eland and calls for the dissolution of the NSA, FBI and CIA, the American people may finally again have a chance at freedom. However, as long as we have these three fascist behemoths destroying our Civil Liberties it cannot happen.

These agencies are a direct threat to the US Constitution, The Bill Of Rights and the privacy of all Americans. Until they are dissolved, democracy in the United States will be nothing more than a facade for the fascist shadow government that is presently controlling all Americans. A government which is using the three aforementioned agencies to enforce its policies at the expense of our Civil Liberties -- and using Terrorism against the very people that they are supposed to be protecting.


May 16, 2006
Abolish Both the Hayden Nomination and NSA
by Ivan Eland

The nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the National Security Agency's (NSA's) former director, to replace the disastrously incompetent Porter Goss as director of the CIA, should be rejected on the grounds that Hayden subverted the U.S. Constitution. In addition, the public debate about the efficacy of the recent intelligence reorganization should lead to the abolishment of his former agency and the inclusion of its more legitimate functions into a slimmed-down and more agile intelligence community.

In an effort to save the Hayden nomination, intelligence officers, through leaks to the press, are arguing that only Hayden's heroic efforts against Vice President Dick Cheney's juggernaut limited the warrantless NSA eavesdropping program to cases where a caller in the United States was calling abroad or receiving a call from there. They say the vice president believed, under his expansive theory of executive power, that the president could eavesdrop on purely domestic calls as well in order to preserve national security. But Hayden should be held accountable for suggesting the expansion of NSA's activities into warrantless spying in the first place.
What part of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution doesn't the general understand?

The amendment states:

"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."

The amendment clearly intends that a warrant is needed for all searches – which includes modern-day eavesdropping and wiretapping – and specifically states that warrants should not even be issued unless government officials can attest that there is "probable cause" that a crime has been committed. The highest law of the land deems the right of U.S. citizens to be protected against the government's potent police power to be so important that it creates no exemption for "national security."