Deputy Director of National Intelligence: Kiss the Fourth Goodbye

Kurt Nimmo TruthNews November 11, 2007

It’s now official: the American version of Stasi is in control of the horizontal and vertical.

“As Congress debates new rules for government eavesdropping, a top intelligence official says it is time that people in the United States changed their definition of privacy,” reports the Associated Press. ” Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people’s private communications and financial information.”

Once upon a time, “government rules” abode the law, that is to say the Constitution, specifically the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

Now? Spooks—or as the Associated Press deems it, “intelligence officials”—have declared the Fourth Amendment to be a dead letter because privacy “no longer can mean anonymity,” as you must be tracked and traced continually in the name of national security, that is to say “security” from government created terrorists and phantoms.

“Anonymity has been important since the Federalist Papers were written under pseudonyms,” Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Associated Press (a government “intelligence” asset under Operation Mocking Bird). “The government has tremendous power: the police power, the ability to arrest, to detain, to take away rights. Tying together that someone has spoken out on an issue with their identity is a far more dangerous thing if it is the government that is trying to tie it together.”

Especially when government is doing this with the participation of business.

Once upon a time, when a lot more people read books and had at least a rudimentary understanding of government and history, this partnership was viewed skeptically.

Indeed, it was called by its appropriate name—fascism.