Originally Posted by
Zippyjuan
There is momentary sadness but not national outrage.
The elite are never outraged. Did you see them get outraged with the bombing of a hospital? Wedding parties? Arming and funding of ISIS? Total annihilation of Yugoslavia? Torture? Renditions? ... No. its merely a pretext for them. Its just an opportunity for them to exploit the people, and in terms of exploitation they certainly are trying to make this NSA failure into another 911 exploitation opportunity to expand surveillance/police state power.
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." - Rahm Emanuel
From the article:
About the only thing Orlando has in common with 9/11 is the way power-hungry politicians and federal officials wasted no time using it to justify expanding government and restricting liberty.
Immediately following the shooting, we began to hear renewed calls for increased government surveillance ... The Orlando shooting is being used to justify mass surveillance and warrantless wiretapping. For the past three years, the House of Representatives passed an amendment to the Defense Department appropriations bill limiting mass surveillance. But, last week, the same amendment was voted down. ...
The fact that the Orlando shooter had twice been investigated by the FBI shows that increased surveillance and wiretapping would not have prevented the shooting. ... But, just like those who used Orlando to defend unconstitutional surveillance, authoritarian supporters of gun control are not allowing facts to stand in the way of using the Orlando shooting to advance their agenda.
Second Amendment opponents are using Orlando to give the federal government new powers to violate individuals’ rights without due process. ... Ironically, if not surprisingly, one of those calling for new gun control laws is Hillary Clinton. When she was sectary of state, Clinton supported interventions in the Middle East that resulted in ISIS obtaining firearms paid for by US taxpayers!
Mass surveillance, gun control, and other restrictions on our liberty will not prevent future Orlandos. ... mass surveillance and warrantless wiretapping erode our rights while making it more difficult for law enforcement to identify real threats.
... repeal all federal gun laws, end all unconstitutional surveillance, and end the hyper-interventionist foreign policy that causes many around the world to resent the US.
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