Judge Andrew Napolitano Asks What If?

He’s quite freaked out by whatever it is he sees:

What if the federal government captures in real time the contents of every telephone call, email and text message and all the fiber-optic data generated by every person and entity in the United States 24/7/365? What if this mass surveillance was never authorized by any federal law?…

What if President George W. Bush told the NSA that since it is part of the Defense Department and he was the commander in chief of the military, NSA agents could spy on anyone, notwithstanding any court orders or statutes that prohibited it? What if Bush believed that his orders to the military were not constrained by the laws Congress had written or the interpretations of those laws by federal courts or even by the Constitution?…

What if the Constitution requires warrants based on probable cause of criminal behavior before surveillance can be conducted but Congress has written laws reducing that standard to probable cause of communicating with someone who has communicated with a foreign national? What if a basic principle of constitutional law is that Congress is subject to the Constitution and therefore cannot change its terms or their meanings?…

What if when the feds know enough about us to harm us, it will be too late? What if it is already too late? What do we do about it?

My guess is he is saying this despite knowing he will be receiving pushback on it from the machine.

I was so sure at the time Bush II was a great guy with a very high intellect and a deep, emotional love of freedom. It makes me question every other assumption I operate on today, and question the very foundation of my intellectual ability. Was he this clueless and trusting of the elites, or was he that evil and disdainful of freedom, and I never saw it because he fooled me? Could I spot it today?

Back then I felt so incredibly lucky to have been born in the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Now, I envy those who live in nations without the resources to target millions of their own citizens for no reason at all, where freedom is forced by the fact they can’t afford to encroach on it.

The practical reality about the surveillance state is that it will never reign itself in. Which is unfortunate, because one reality I see everywhere is that extremes of Yang always turn into extremes of Yin when allowed to progress uninhibited. That really seems some greater law of the universe, designed to drive the instability and cycles which you see all throughout nature.

If the surveillance state never advanced and bothered normal citizens, normal citizens would never have any reason to oppose it. But for some reason, they target people who otherwise might have been supporters, and as a result, they are pushing the whole thing toward the Yang into Yin moment. When conservative federal judges like Judge Napolitano, and patriotic reporters like Sharyll Atkisson are horrified by a tool of national security, something is wrong.

On the opposite side, there is little anyone can do to stop it now. Even if you wanted to get involved, it would simply get on you, and from that moment you would have zero ability to gain any element of surprise. I suspect this is why President Trump has no interest in it. Right now, it is a high-cost battle you probably cannot win.

For now, they are firmly in the yang moment and heading more yang, but eventually things will turn, and as it does, the public will turn K. My assumption is when the economic collapse hits, the machine will have a massive problem, because it will have evolved to spend the billions or trillions of dollars it spends, and that money will just not be there to support the machine or its operations. That disorderly downsize is when I expect bits and pieces will begin to come out in front of a freshly K-populace, and then is when individual freedom will re-emerge.

Once that happens, I would not expect a wing of the George W Bush Library to devote itself to explaining his role in the entire thing.

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