The Deep State just won a major victory over the American people.
The Supreme Court had a real chance to stop the NSA and they refused to take action.
And now the American people will lose freedom like never before.
Jewel v. NSA is a lawsuit against the Deep State that has been making its way through the court system for many years now.
Innocent American citizens found out that they were being watched by the NSA, and they sued the NSA for violating their Constitutional rights.
But the courts are afraid of the NSA and the Deep State, like so many Americans are. The judges know that they are being watched too, just like virtually all Americans are.
And so time and again, they have refused to take action, or do anything that might upset the Intelligence Community.
Now, the Supreme Court is the latest to chicken out and refuse to do anything that would risk upsetting the powerful forces of the Deep State.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “Today the U.S. Supreme Court slammed the courthouse door on our flagship NSA surveillance lawsuit, Jewel v. NSA, effectively validating the government’s claims that something known and debated across the world – the NSA’s mass surveillance – is somehow too secret to be challenged in open court by ordinary members of the public whose communications were caught in the net.”
The claim being made is that if the government says something is secret, it can’t be challenged in court. That, of course, is laughably absurd.
If the government is violating someone’s sacred God-given Constitutional rights, it can be challenged in court. That is the entire purpose of the court system.
Otherwise, the government would be able to violate anybody’s rights and then claim that it is too “secret” to be challenged. They could ban free speech, and then when challenged in court, say that it’s a “top secret program” and get away with it.
They could launch a “top secret program” to disarm the American people and take everyone’s guns away, and the courts would shrug their shoulders and say “well, it’s a secret. We can’t stop it.”
That is not how America was set up by the founders. The court system is supposed to be a protection against government overreach and violation of sacred rights.
The fight against the Deep State is not over, however.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “In late 2023 we’ll have a chance to put an end to Section 702, one of the key provisions that Congress passed in 2008 to protect the NSA’s activities and which currently authorizes what is left of the Upstream program. Congress should not renew Section 702 next year.”
“The NSA simply cannot do this kind of mass surveillance consistent with the Constitution. It’s time for all of these gigantic, ungovernable, unaccountable and insanely expensive mass spying endeavors to end.”
Congress should do what the Supreme Court would not: they should put aside their fear of the Intelligence Community, stop chickening out, and end Section 702 of FISA so that the American people can be free again.