Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

August 22, 2007

On May 25, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell sent a memo to Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff authorizing the use of spy satellite data by federal and local authorities. Washington's vast array of surveillance satellites, constructed for use against the Soviet Union, can now be employed domestically.

This new domestic surveillance capacity would supposedly be employed only to protect the public against terrorists and other violent criminals. However, notes the Baltimore Sun, ?there is no limit on the use of this high-tech equipment, which includes visual and non-visual capabilities that can sense electromagnetic activity, radioactivity, and chemical traces.?

The same administration that violated the law to conduct wholesale eavesdropping on electronic communications now has the ability to target any of us for real-time surveillance from orbit. And a newly passed measure, the dishonestly named ?Protect America Act,? effectively nullifies the Fourth Amendment's ban on ?unreasonable searches and seizures.?

In the name of security, our rulers have abolished our privacy.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.