WHAT’S THE REAL MOTIVE BEHIND NSA SPYING?

In recent weeks, I’ve caught a lot of flack from well meaning patriotic people about my blog posts criticizing the government’s practice of spying on American citizens. 

If you missed them, here are a few examples, ONE, and here TWO, and here THREE, and here FOUR.   I never let the flack bother me.  When I was in the Air Force, there was a popular saying, “You catch the most flack when you’re right over the target”.

Anytime any government that wants total control, and needs to know what the people are thinking and saying, and have a built in system that allows for that capability, they do so under the guise of protecting the "mother land".   Those who are presumed to be a threat to that total control are then monitored, regardless of position in life or political stature. Information that can be used against someone, even if it consists of personal opinion, is stored for future use.  This is the basis of the revelations that have come forward and are constantly vilified daily by the power structure and their propaganda arm.

Think about this, lets say one of our elite Political figures who heads a committee ( lets say a Senator) on ethics or defense and they are caught in a situation that compromises their position (lets say prostitution) then they are slated to vote on something.   Couldn’t they be swayed by blackmail to vote or not to vote on something to keep that from coming out?  After all they are being watched and wiretapped also aren’t they?  And it may depend on who’s in office at the time –Democrat or Republican.  I’m just saying this compromises the way people could or could not vote.

I believe that this Administration has "something" on everyone so that when push comes to shove - they can turn the screws and determine the outcome.  If anyone ever doubts that this Administration owes someone powerful, and dances to their tune, think again. How else could anyone move so quickly from community organizer to President?

This is terrifying when you consider how easy it could be for the government to target someone, then make it look like they “inadvertently acquired” their confidential information after poring through gobs of information.  The government is permitted to retain the information for up to five years.   I assure you it is easy to retain records for longer than that without anyone noticing. Snowden said that he had access to obtain this information from virtually anyone with a personal email address.

This administration cannot be trusted not to abuse its authority and target political enemies.  The government has already been caught using the IRS to target conservatives, so it should not be trusted with wide access to the average American’s personal information without a warrant.

As terrifying as it is to think about the administration having the ability to sway the outcome of an important congressional vote, or a Supreme Court vote, it is even MORE terrifying to consider the possibility that they already have.  As an example, lets consider the Supreme Court ruling if favor of ObamaCare:
What the Court did in that case was to make law, to legislate.  The chief justice rewrote Obamacare in order to save it.  He amended it, not just once but twice, in order to save it from an otherwise inevitable finding of unconstitutionality.   Chief Justice Roberts’ ruled that the mandate failed several constitutional tests but survived as a tax, which is within the power of Congress.  Democrats have always insisted that the fee imposed for not complying with the mandate is not a tax.

Shortly after the 5-4 ruling was handed down last summer, reports surfaced that Roberts originally sided with the three conservative justices and swing vote Anthony Kennedy to find the individual mandate unconstitutional.  Sometime between the oral arguments in March and the final verdict in June, Roberts flipped his vote to uphold Obamacare. Kennedy reportedly tried for one month to convince Roberts to stick with his initial instinct and rule the mandate unconstitutional.
But Roberts refused to budge.

On April 2, Obama publicly declared, “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.   And I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint – that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example.  And I’m pretty confident that this Court will recognize that and not take that step.”

Think about it.  Why was Obama so confident?  Why did Justice Roberts change his mind?  How can anyone with half a brain not understand how dangerous it is for the government to have the ability to collect and save dirt on EVERYBODY?