"Well, if the FBI is certain that this Vanderboegh character is a threat to national security. . .""We are, your Honor.""Well, then I guess it's okay by me.""Don't worry, your Honor, we'll still keep your past indiscretions just between the two of us."
The Star Chamber doesn't like the recent turn of events: Secret-court judges upset at portrayal of ‘collaboration’ with government
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Dear Judgie,
Perceptions are as important actual work done in nose-bleed political circles. And with all the sooper seekrit work you do, perceptions are all we, the common people, have to judge the Judges by.
Another saying to ponder: Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas.
B Woodman
III-PER
Well poo...lots of judges don't appreciate the truth.
Collaboration???
What do you expect...
That folks cannot see that police, prosecutors, and judges are government personnel?
That they are all on the "same team"?
That true justice is the casualty of such an arrangement?
That the American judicial system was designed to operate as it does, from the start?
Thomas Jefferson saw the problem and tried to warn us...
If [as the Federalists say] “the judiciary is the last resort in relation to the other departments of the government,” … , then indeed is our Constitution a complete felo de so. … The Constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they may please. It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also; in theory only, at first, while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice, as fast as that relaxes. Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law …
-Thomas Jefferson Letter to Judge Spencer Roane, Nov. 1819
And, Constitution worship isn't the answer:
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
― Lysander Spooner
“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.”
― Lysander Spooner
“If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.”
― Lysander Spooner
“That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.”
― Lysander Spooner
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
quote"The ruling was a secret not just to the public and most of Congress, but to all of Kollar-Kotelly’s surveillance court colleagues. Under orders from the president, none of the court’s other 10 members could be told about the Internet metadata program, which was one prong of a larger and highly classified data-gathering effort known as the President’s Surveillance Program, or PSP."unquote
fucking priceless..President ORDERS the entire FISA Court to..ummm "don't look"..except for you Judge. We like you..you make pies..and we like pies. right.
hmmm, seems to me I've seen this before..oh yes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLplQWB2S_8
This whole FISA thing makes the Three Stooges thrash about on the floor in gut splitting laughter.
From looking at a few of the other videos on that site, I'd submit all these dimwits masquerading as Law Enforcement are actually being trained by Bozo the Clown.
Here is living proof...
http://co-ironwill.blogspot.com/2013/06/fbi-agent-almost-shoots-cop-during.html
Every time you're called for jury duty, it is a good idea to take a supply of "Fully Informed Jury" material with you and put it in the magazine rack in the big jury pool room where you sit waiting to be called to a courtroom. If anyone tries to arrest you for that, then tell them you're just exercising your right to free speech. If they want to actually arrest you, then shut up until your lawyer is with you. I have done this quietly several times and no one has bothered me about it. My hope has been that a wrongly prosecuted defendant would be acquitted or that a wrongly sued defendant would win because of my efforts. Jurors have the power to judge not only guilt or innocence, but the law itself. The name O.J. Simpson is enough to prove the ultimate power of jurors!
- Old Greybeard
Well, when the Judiciary acts as a rubber stamp for everything the Executive Branch wants, the label of 'collaborationist' IS going to come up. Also, 'star chamber', etc... So if the shoe fits, be prepared to have to walk in it.
I would also impart some advice to these tyrants-in-robes: Nuremberg Rules still apply. No one can be exempted from accountability!
Sure would be nice to have the names and addresses of all of those FISA judges. I like having a "well-rounded" Christmas Card list.
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