Chomsky: Obama ‘Determined To Demolish The Foundations Of Our Civil Liberties’
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Progressive hero Noam Chomsky is terrified of the surveillance state that has developed during the tenure of President Barack Obama, calling it a grave threat to our fundamental civil liberties.
In a column published Monday, Chomsky writes that the documents revealed to the public by Edward Snowden show a system that is flagrantly violating the principles of the Constitution.
“It is of no slight import that the project is being executed in one of the freest countries in the world, and in radical violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights, which protects citizens from ‘unreasonable searches and seizures,’ and guarantees the privacy of their persons, houses, papers and effects,” Chomsky said.
“Much as government lawyers may try, there is no way to reconcile these principles with the assault on the population revealed in the Snowden documents.”
The scope and depth of the National Security Agency’s surveillance program is what particularly troubles the retired MIT professor and leads him to conclude that our current president is set on undermining the foundations of our society.
“The documents unveil a remarkable project to expose to state scrutiny vital information about every person who falls within the grasp of the colossus — in principle, every person linked to the modern electronic society,” Chomsky wrote. “As the colossus fulfills its visions, in principle every keystroke might be sent to President Obama’s huge and expanding databases in Utah.”
“In other ways too, the constitutional lawyer in the White House seems determined to demolish the foundations of our civil liberties. The principle of the presumption of innocence, which dates back to Magna Carta 800 years ago, has long been dismissed to oblivion.”
All this adds up to a system that George Orwell would’ve been incapable of envisioning as “Nothing so ambitious was imagined by the dystopian prophets of grim totalitarian worlds ahead.”
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Re: Chomsky: Obama ‘Determined To Demolish The Foundations..
Noam? It's Norm you idiot.
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Re: Chomsky: Obama ‘Determined To Demolish The Foundations..
Data stored on a corporation's computer is not part of your persons, houses, papers and effects. Read your ISP's TOS.
presumption of innocence has been demolished? LMFAO.
Just an ignorant and hysterical rant by an old man.
presumption of innocence has been demolished? LMFAO.
Just an ignorant and hysterical rant by an old man.
Re: Chomsky: Obama ‘Determined To Demolish The Foundations..
Lol.Blizzard of Cos wrote:Noam? It's Norm you idiot.
"Let's not argue whose idea it was to bring the Lawn Darts and Tequila. We need to all work together to fix the hole in this guy's head."