This BBC news article discusses how the U.S. government has been tapping our phone calls and monitoring our emails ILLEGALLY since 9-11 when communicating internationally. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed the ACLU's arguments in favor of the government.
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I'm coming to realize that its not uncommon for the government to abridge the constitution--even though here it appears that the president did this on his own. As a tangent, I wanted to impart some information that I learned in my property class today that exemplifies how the government tends to obstruct the Constitution to work in favor of moral beliefs of those in power (and likely a large portion of society in the case I am about to explain)
Ok, so the Constitution requires each state to give Full Faith and Credit to the judicial decrees handed down by courts in other states, even if the law on the subject matter differs between the states. But, on the topic of same-sex marriage, we have the defense of Marriage Act which allows states that do not recognize same-sex marriage to fail to recognize court decisions hinging on the marriage of a same-sex couple. So, this basically contradicts the Constitutional requirement of Full Faith and Credit as it applies to same sex marriage. WTF...on top of that, it seems to raise some issues under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution as well.
This comment is not to make any statements on the the validity of same sex marriage--I just think its interesting how the government twists the laws to meet certain agendas but not others.
As technology increases globalization, I wonder how much of our privacy will soon come into question. As many of our nation's politicians use the politics of fear to take away our civil liberties, I question just how far American's will let the government go before standing up and demanding our rights. To be honest, I did not even know of this law, and I wonder just how many laws have been passed since 9/11 that I also do not know about. As a society, we need to begin to educate ourselves on just what our Congressmen are voting on in Washington.
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