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tangent4ronpaul
01-07-2014, 08:00 PM
http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/states-to-nsa-get-a-warrant/

The National Security Agency may be able to spy on citizens by collecting data about their telephone calls and Internet usage, but at least two states are developing a strategy that would leave the data largely unusable without a warrant.

The newly revealed practices of the NSA to monitor all telephone calls made by American citizens could even be found in violation of the Missouri state constitution.

Several court cases that could eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court have been filed since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked information about the program

Lawmakers in several states, however, aren’t waiting.

According to the Tenth Amendment Center, lawmakers in Missouri are proposing to amend their state constitution. Their plan would add “and electronic communications and data” to the provision that provides privacy and security for residents.

If changed by voters, it would read: “That the people shall be secure in their persons, papers, homes [and], effects, and electronic communications and data, from unreasonable searches and seizures; and no warrant to search any place, or seize any person or thing, or access electronic data or communication, shall issue without describing the place to be searched, or the person or thing to be seized, or the data or communication to be accessed, as nearly as may be; nor without probable cause, supported by written oath or affirmation.”

The Joint Resolution, pending before the state Senate, proposes allowing Missouri voters to decide next November whether or not to amend their constitution.

According to the Tenth Amendment Center, federal judges and lawyers may squabble over the constitutionality of the NSA data-gathering, but lawmakers could make it impossible for any information obtained to be used in those states.

In Kansas, Rep. Brett Hildabrand, R-Shawnee, prefiled a bill that would “ban all state agencies and local governments in the state from possessing data ‘held by a third-party in a system of record’ and would prohibit any such information from being ‘subject to discovery, subpoena or other means of legal compulsion for its release to any person or entity or be admissible in evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding.’”

The access the data, under the bill, government would be required to obtain “express informed consent” or a warrant.

In Kansas, it’s called the Fourth Amendment Protection Act.

“I want to make sure that electronic privacy in Kansas is protected in the same way that physical letters in the mail are protected from random government searches,” Hildabrand told the center. “Each day, we hear a new revelation about how the NSA is violating our personal privacy. My bill will ensure the state of Kansas doesn’t utilize this illegally obtained data.”

Hildabrand noted that USA Today reported early in December that more than 100 police agencies in 33 states now use technology “to intercept and catalog the electronic communication of average, law-abiding citizens.”

“We must be ever-vigilant that their rights are not being infringed upon by big government taking advantage of advances in technology,” he said.

In Missouri, voters soon might be able to decide on the proposed state constitutional amendment.
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tangent4ronpaul
01-07-2014, 08:03 PM
US senators propose bill to shut off NSA’s water supply in California
http://rt.com/usa/nsa-water-supply-bill-265/

Disgruntled with NSA spying on US citizens, two senators from opposing parties have introduced a bill banning companies in California from providing essential utility services to the agency – including cutting off its computer-cooling water supply.

The NSA is a very resource-hungry organization which could stand to lose a lot from this. The initiative by activists and other organizations, apparently seeks to incapacitate the agency in return for its rights violations.

The news comes just as elsewhere, in Maryland, the agency made a deal to pay $2 million a year for the region’s treated sewage water.

But California has not been so kind. Hitting back at the federal government after a mountain of recent allegations of outright violations of its citizens’ rights, senators Ted Lieu (D) and Joel Anderson (R) formally introduced Senate Bill 828 on Monday.
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invisible
01-07-2014, 08:48 PM
Similar legislation is also being introduced in OK.

DamianTV
01-07-2014, 08:49 PM
If changed by voters, it would read: “That the people shall be secure in their persons, papers, homes [and], effects, and electronic communications and data, from unreasonable searches and seizures; and no warrant to search any place, or seize any person or thing, or access electronic data or communication, shall issue without describing the place to be searched, or the person or thing to be seized, or the data or communication to be accessed, as nearly as may be; nor without probable cause, supported by written oath or affirmation.”


Now we need the Federal Govt to adhere to the Restrictions placed on the Govt by the Constitution.

Dr.3D
01-07-2014, 09:01 PM
Now we need the Federal Govt to adhere to the Restrictions placed on the Govt by the Constitution.
I can just hear those federal bastards saying, "Federal law supersedes state law."

DamianTV
01-07-2014, 09:05 PM
I can just hear those federal bastards saying, "Federal law supersedes state law."

Might be closer to if Federal anything supercedes all State Laws, and the 9th and 10th should be abolished or ignored and dont apply to them, for the Security of Children to be indoctrinated, er Edjumacated.

Dianne
01-07-2014, 09:06 PM
The people have to take these matters into their own hands. Like Obamacare, just refuse it... the NSA, just refuse it.

Although my State, Grand Old North Carolina the bankster schill capital of the world.. will probably embrace NSA spying. The more corruption, the merrier.

DamianTV
01-08-2014, 03:03 AM
The people have to take these matters into their own hands. Like Obamacare, just refuse it... the NSA, just refuse it.

Although my State, Grand Old North Carolina the bankster schill capital of the world.. will probably embrace NSA spying. The more corruption, the merrier.

Then refuse those banks as best as possible.