Should not need to go to court.
"those actions that are patently illegal" (@M.D.)
"the judiciary going along with it all the way to the top", "The Baby Boomer generation legacy of fear and greed." (@asdf)
I agree. Honestly; there is no doubt at all that they are well outside the law. The U.S. Constitution has been ignored, but it is still the law and it still binds all three of the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary.
The clear intent of the U.S. Constitution is to prohibit much of what has been going on. The SCOTUS was politically appointed and it shows. To be sure, they should all be invited to step down and impeached otherwise.
How clear does the U.S. Bill of Rights have to be? NSA snooping is simply illegal, should be shut down instantly, all of their ill-gotten information destroyed, the worst offenders prosecuted and the rest excused from duty.
By the way, the U.S. Constitution says nothing whatever about those rights applying exclusively to U.S. citizens. If you have been affected by it you have a genuine grievance against the perpetrators.
Our relationship (I am Canadian) with the United States is predicated on the notion that they will not be taken over by outlaws and become a rogue state. They have been taken over by outlaws and have become a rogue state. Citizens of the G7, at least are justified in demanding that it stop.
The mere *threat* of violence is a crime. Similarly, a wholesale operation that is actively collecting records on people everywhere poses a credible threat against all of us.
The U.S. Government is essentially trying to fly the idea that they need to spy on my children in the bathroom so that they can prevent others from spying on my children in the bathroom. That is disturbing, but it is even more disturbing that the majority of people find that argument convincing.
As for the baby boomers -- I am one and I am ashamed of what my generation became. As a group, we seem to have no redeeming features and are nothing but a net liability. We had and still have every opportunity to make the world a better place. Instead, we worked diligently to capture more than our share at the expense of everyone else, including our own children. The world is nearly the exact opposite of what it should be. We wasted a wonderful opportunity and it was not ours to waste.
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