Modern Day Witch Hunts a-Brewing

Andrew P. Napolitano is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel, and a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey. Despite the nation being preoccupied with the governmental shutdown, Judge Napolitano is trying to open the eyes of those of us that are not that tuned into into whats currently going on, perhaps even at this very minute as you're reading this!

What he's trying to say, is that with the ongoing consent of the Obama administration, and following the direct authorization from the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the NSA continues to spy on Americans. The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, otherwise know as the FISA court, is made up of federal judges administratively approving in secret the wishes of the government. It was learned last week in a serious discussion, that certain members of the government, all of which shall remain NAMELESS, discussed that it is more likely than not that the FISA court has permitted the NSA to seize not only Internet and phone records - including texting and email records, but also credit card and utility records, banking records, social media records and digital images contained in emails.

General warrants are warrants that do not include anything specific about any particular place or person/s, rather gives the bearer the authority to look into whatever and whomever it is they want to look into. He states that with the continued non opposition, the FISA courts will continue to issue these general warrants so that the NSA can continue the monitoring of America. 

He argues that what the FISA court and what the NSA are doing is unconstitutional and can lead to a modern day witch hunt. With no one to oppose them, who can draw the line on how far they can take this spying. With over 4,500 federal crimes that one can be charged with, it's not a matter of "if" but more so "when" you will be charged with something, if this "Big Brother" state continues to oversee. Lavrenti Beria - the Chief of Secret Police for Stalin, said “Show me the man and I will find you the crime.” It is often shown through the pages of history that a government on a witch hunt, unconstrained by law or Constitution, will not stop until it can brand someone as a witch.

Now, I understand the main reason behind this "spying", and I must agree that certain steps must be taken to insure the protection and safety of our nation and its people from foreign and domestic threats. But I don't agree that these steps can be made at the costs of our liberties and our God given privacy's. I agree with Judge Napolitano when he says that it is unconstitutional what the FISA courts and the NSA are doing. I think he's not only trying inform the uninformed, but also posing a question to the top office holders to the lower blue collar workers and everyone in between......does anybody really want the government do to know every little piece of information about you that they can just take without your permission? I for one most certainly do not want that from my government! Instead I think we deserve the opposite, a government that tells the people EVERYTHING and holds no secrets! I think the judge says it best when he says, "And when the government knows all, and doesn’t like what it knows, we will have an authoritarian state far more odious than any history has ever known".