Maryland Lawmakers Push to Cut Water, Electricity to NSA Headquarters

[CaseyJones]

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/02/10/lights-out-for-nsa-maryland-lawmakers-push-to-cut-water-electricity-to-spy-agency-headquarters


The National Security Agency’s headquarters in Ft. Meade, Md., will go dark if a cohort of Maryland lawmakers has its way.

Eight Republicans in the 141-member Maryland House of Delegates introduced legislation Thursday that would deny the electronic spy agency “material support, participation or assistance in any form” from the state, its political subdivisions or companies with state contracts.

The bill would deprive NSA facilities water and electricity carried over public utilities, ban the use of NSA-derived evidence in state courts and prevent state universities from partnering with the NSA on research.

State or local officials ignoring the NSA sanctions would be fired, local governments refusing to comply would lose state grant funds and companies would be forever barred from state contracts.

The bill was filed as emergency legislation and requires support of three-fifths of delegates to pass. It was referred to the chamber’s judiciary committee.

[jdcole]

Hot damn. That's how to not fuck around.

[Origanalist]

What are the odds of this being passed in Maryland? :rolleyes:

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

Wow, they could have gone with the headline, "Sixteen balls found in Maryland state government."

You know, because it was eight Republicans that brought the bill...

That aside, I really hope to see this pass. Could this be thee first crack in the wall? Was there not something similar brought to a vote in Utah recently? We need to see this in all 50 states...the main thing I see working against it nationwide is the amount of people addicted to security porn (security theater).

Ninja edit: no, Utah has not. Oops.

[Peace&Freedom]

The natives have at last become restless!

[NorfolkPCSolutions]

So here's a question with potentially dark answers...twenty of fifty states pass laws like the one proposed in Maryland. The federal government responds...how? I seem to recall an anti TSA law proposed in Texas some time ago, and the feds reacted by proposing a no fly zone over the entire state.

If the states begin to assert their rights, and by that, I mean the people of the states asserting their rights, and the federal government gets its nuts in a twist...how long until all the shtf? Would it fly all over the place, and cover everything, or would the fan spin more slowly, just making big chunks and plopping them onto the floor?

[Czolgosz]

So "Maryland" "lawlmakers" apparently have shit to hide.

[Lindsey]

Fuck Yeah! I don't think they have a shot in hell of getting 77 more delegates on board, but this is definitely the kind of language that needs to be getting written into bills.

These delegates deserved to be recognized:
Delegates Smigiel, Dwyer, Glass, Kipke, McComas, McDermott, Parrott, and Serafini

[Dianne]

I absolutely love this !!!! Hats off to the people sponsoring this bill ... I can't think of anything better than a community; aka State to say "you're not going to rape the Constitution, using our State as your Front ... Love it, pray it passes and power cut off to those bastards. We think the NSA is U.S.A. spying... how do we even know who the hell they are working for. Obama hasn't yet learned how to tie his shoelaces ... We have no clue what the NSA really is, who it is, where it is, who it works for, etc.