Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday sided with the FBI in a dispute over its efforts to stop from going forward a lawsuit brought by three Muslim men who argue the federal government targeted them and their Southern California community for surveillance based on their religion.
The court issued a unanimous decision addressing what it said was the narrow question of whether a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) displaces the state-secrets privilege, which was asserted by the federal government in its request that the men's claims be dismissed. The FBI argued disclosure of the information sought by the three men would harm national-security interests.
I think religious org's should be watched (if we can't ban them). All of them but Islam is a violent one. Mohammed's New Testament, written after reaching Mecca, supersedes the part written before then and he was a bit angry. Christianity and Hindi obviously have their violent Sects. Even Buddhists sometimes venture into the bloody fray. Watch all of them. That should be an expected aspect of public religion.
We already have massive surveillance going on, both from the our government, China, and numerous private entities. As so much terrorism derives from the religiously motivated, surveillance should be part of bargain of being tax free. If they're really law abiding, they should look at it as outreach and shut the fuck up.
Soooo, you think all those satellites up there are for TV shows?
We were told, in 1973, as DOD Secret & higher-clearance employees at a nuclear submarine building facility, that the satellites Then could read your badge number from the 3"x5" ID on your lapel.
Do you think the sophistication of surveillance has Fallen since then?
I read the SCOTUS ruling. It’s very complicated but this surveillance door has been open for years.
Surveillance doors have been open for decades. The FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover surveilled Martin Luther King, Jr. Surveillance doors were open for Viet Nam War protesters.
WW One protestors were jailed, as were women who taught poor women how to avoid pregnancy. Ask 19th century labor union organizers if they were surveilled. During slavery, escapees iwere tracked. In the 1790s, criticizing the government was illegal.
It’s safe to say governments have always surveilled.
We actually pay them to have the ability to insure the public's safety before its privacy (which is not a constitutional Right).