The duty of a true government is to respect and protect the individuality and autonomy of each citizen.
The right to privacy of the individual does not only entail his rights to be left alone; but it also includes the rights of the said person not to be harass, dishonor, to be violated physically and/or humiliated by the state’s unreasonable and unjust intrusion to his body and person.
Further, it is my considered view and so holds that this preposterously outrageous ruling by that kangaroo court, clearly reveals the sharp division not only of the ideas and the temperament of the justices involved, but incontestably their class biases, personal prejudices, politico-moral orientations and socio-economic backgrounds.
The ruling of this ridiculous court is also a reflection of American society as a whole. Inasmuch that the American proclaimed to the world that they are united, that is not the case! That is not true! That is a big and a blatant lie. There is no shadow of doubt that they are a fragmented and utterly divided empire.
I would also argue that the ruling clearly shows the legal and moral decadence of one of their so-called vital institutions. Imagine the scene, a citizen went to the court to demand that the state defend, protect and respect his rights; what happened was a complete legal fiasco! The court, not only sided with the state but also trampled, reduced, abused, diminished and legalized the bastadization and prostitution of his rights based on this so-called ‘majority’ ruling.
Ms. Wolf asked such a categorical question:
“Where are we headed? Why? These recent laws criminalizing protest, and giving local police – who, recall, are now infused with DHS money, military hardware and personnel – powers to terrify and traumatise people who have not gone through due process or trial, are being set up to work in concert with a see-all-all-the-time surveillance state. A facility is being set up in Utah by the NSA to monitor everything all the time: James Bamford wrote in Wired magazine that the new facility in Bluffdale, Utah, is being built, where the NSA will look at billions of emails, texts and phone calls. Similar legislation is being pushed forward in the UK.
“With that Big Brother eye in place, working alongside these strip-search laws, – between the all-seeing data-mining technology and the terrifying police powers to sexually abuse and humiliate you at will – no one will need a formal coup to have a cowed and compliant citizenry. If you say anything controversial online or on the phone, will you face arrest and sexual humiliation?
“Remember, you don't need to have done anything wrong to be arrested in America any longer. You can be arrested for walking your dog without a leash. The man who was forced to spread his buttocks was stopped for a driving infraction. I was told by an NYPD sergeant that "safety" issues allow the NYPD to make arrests at will. So nothing prevents thousands of Occupy protesters – if there will be any left after these laws start to bite – from being rounded up and stripped naked under intimidating conditions.”
I agree with the incisive contention of our bold correspondent that one of the reasons why these inhumane and barbaric acts are happening because it will benefit those “warlords”,” war-businessmen”, those military hawks and private military contractors (such as Blackwater USA) “who profited from endless war and surveillance – but now I see the struggle as larger.”
As one internet advocate said: "There is a race against time: they realise the internet is a tool of empowerment that will work against their interests, and they need to race to turn it into a tool of control."
Consider the following report of Chris Hedges:
"There are now 1,271 government agencies and 1,931 private companies that work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States, the Washington Post reported in a 2010 series by Dana Priest and William M Arken. There are 854,000 people with top-secret security clearances, the reporters wrote, and in Washington, DC, and the surrounding area 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2011."
Indeed, “this enormous new sector of the economy has a multi-billion-dollar vested interest in setting up a system to surveil, physically intimidate and prey upon the rest of American society.”
I condemn to the highest possible degree with outrageous, ridiculous and patently illegal ruling of the US Supreme Court. This ‘law’ is void ab initio. Void from the beginning for the very reason that it does not contain any resemblance of propriety or even the slightest color of legality due to its being oppressive, discriminatory, and capricious. Indeed, the ruling is a grave violation of human rights and the constitutional rights of the people as a whole.
I still believe in the other half of America, the good America, the America of the working class, the America of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther Kings, jr., Frederick Douglass, etc.
I still believe in the American Declaration of Independence that: we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they have unalienable rights that includes the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and if the government or the state negate and/or subvert these rights; it is the moral, the constitutional, legal and human rights of the citizens and all the people as a whole to launch or wage an insurrection or revolution to right and restore those inherent rights.
Why? It is because the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
In the immortal words of Patrick Henry:
“As for me, give me liberty or give me death”.
Jose Mario Dolor De Vega
April, 2012
The right to privacy of the individual does not only entail his rights to be left alone; but it also includes the rights of the said person not to be harass, dishonor, to be violated physically and/or humiliated by the state’s unreasonable and unjust intrusion to his body and person.
Further, it is my considered view and so holds that this preposterously outrageous ruling by that kangaroo court, clearly reveals the sharp division not only of the ideas and the temperament of the justices involved, but incontestably their class biases, personal prejudices, politico-moral orientations and socio-economic backgrounds.
The ruling of this ridiculous court is also a reflection of American society as a whole. Inasmuch that the American proclaimed to the world that they are united, that is not the case! That is not true! That is a big and a blatant lie. There is no shadow of doubt that they are a fragmented and utterly divided empire.
I would also argue that the ruling clearly shows the legal and moral decadence of one of their so-called vital institutions. Imagine the scene, a citizen went to the court to demand that the state defend, protect and respect his rights; what happened was a complete legal fiasco! The court, not only sided with the state but also trampled, reduced, abused, diminished and legalized the bastadization and prostitution of his rights based on this so-called ‘majority’ ruling.
Ms. Wolf asked such a categorical question:
“Where are we headed? Why? These recent laws criminalizing protest, and giving local police – who, recall, are now infused with DHS money, military hardware and personnel – powers to terrify and traumatise people who have not gone through due process or trial, are being set up to work in concert with a see-all-all-the-time surveillance state. A facility is being set up in Utah by the NSA to monitor everything all the time: James Bamford wrote in Wired magazine that the new facility in Bluffdale, Utah, is being built, where the NSA will look at billions of emails, texts and phone calls. Similar legislation is being pushed forward in the UK.
“With that Big Brother eye in place, working alongside these strip-search laws, – between the all-seeing data-mining technology and the terrifying police powers to sexually abuse and humiliate you at will – no one will need a formal coup to have a cowed and compliant citizenry. If you say anything controversial online or on the phone, will you face arrest and sexual humiliation?
“Remember, you don't need to have done anything wrong to be arrested in America any longer. You can be arrested for walking your dog without a leash. The man who was forced to spread his buttocks was stopped for a driving infraction. I was told by an NYPD sergeant that "safety" issues allow the NYPD to make arrests at will. So nothing prevents thousands of Occupy protesters – if there will be any left after these laws start to bite – from being rounded up and stripped naked under intimidating conditions.”
I agree with the incisive contention of our bold correspondent that one of the reasons why these inhumane and barbaric acts are happening because it will benefit those “warlords”,” war-businessmen”, those military hawks and private military contractors (such as Blackwater USA) “who profited from endless war and surveillance – but now I see the struggle as larger.”
As one internet advocate said: "There is a race against time: they realise the internet is a tool of empowerment that will work against their interests, and they need to race to turn it into a tool of control."
Consider the following report of Chris Hedges:
"There are now 1,271 government agencies and 1,931 private companies that work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States, the Washington Post reported in a 2010 series by Dana Priest and William M Arken. There are 854,000 people with top-secret security clearances, the reporters wrote, and in Washington, DC, and the surrounding area 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2011."
Indeed, “this enormous new sector of the economy has a multi-billion-dollar vested interest in setting up a system to surveil, physically intimidate and prey upon the rest of American society.”
I condemn to the highest possible degree with outrageous, ridiculous and patently illegal ruling of the US Supreme Court. This ‘law’ is void ab initio. Void from the beginning for the very reason that it does not contain any resemblance of propriety or even the slightest color of legality due to its being oppressive, discriminatory, and capricious. Indeed, the ruling is a grave violation of human rights and the constitutional rights of the people as a whole.
I still believe in the other half of America, the good America, the America of the working class, the America of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther Kings, jr., Frederick Douglass, etc.
I still believe in the American Declaration of Independence that: we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they have unalienable rights that includes the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and if the government or the state negate and/or subvert these rights; it is the moral, the constitutional, legal and human rights of the citizens and all the people as a whole to launch or wage an insurrection or revolution to right and restore those inherent rights.
Why? It is because the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
In the immortal words of Patrick Henry:
“As for me, give me liberty or give me death”.
Jose Mario Dolor De Vega
April, 2012