Senator Frank Church: The NSA could enable a dictator to impose total tyranny
Senator Frank Church chaired the Senate Hearings on the FBI’s Cointelpro operation, which spied upon & attempted to INFILTRATE, DISRUPT & DISCREDIT the peace movement, even Martin Luther King Jr.
if a dictator ever took over, the NSA “could enable [him] to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”
From James Bamford’s NSA, the agency that could be Big Brother, Senator Church:
“That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.”
He added that if a dictator ever took over, the NSA “could enable [him] to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”
At the time, the agency had the ability to listen to only what people said over the telephone or wrote in an occasional telegram; they had no access to private letters. But today, with people expressing their innermost thoughts in e-mail messages, exposing their medical and financial records to the Internet, and chatting constantly on cellphones, the agency virtually has the ability to get inside a person’s mind…
“I don’t want to see this country ever go across the bridge,” Senator Church said. “I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”
MLK had informants on his staff. I wonder who has informants on their staff, travelling with them today…
NOW a PDF Flyer
slightly modified for flyer (262kb)
BushCo is trying to bury the significance of their illegal spying, why aren’t the Democrats “screaming to the rafters”?
hmmm- just read this on PDA, “John Conyers (D-MI), a leader in the Watergate and Iran-Contra investigations”… interesting to note that NO Accountability came out of those.
He also led the election fraud investigation in 2004 which concluded there was reasonable doubt of fraud, but nothing came of it… and Conyers led the Downing Street Memo investigation, McGovern’s testimony alone (mp3) should have been enough to force impeachment… yet Conyers focused on collecting signatures asking Bush for more information…
If I were Bush or Cheney, I would certainly be pushing for Conyers to be the lead “investigator” as long as possible.
Think about it- after the explosive DSM hearing, there was no action until mid July when Barbara Lee introduced a Resolution of Inquiry on the DSM, which has to be acted on in 14 working days, but she introduced it “too late” and shucks, they had to wait til after vacation in Sept to deal with it… and by then Katrina had it and it was buried. It’s like they were stalling for Bush…
“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” ~ J. Edgar Hoover
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February 24th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
The average citizen has no concept of he dangers the NSA involves Also the Media will not give any facts to the puplic.
The mechinsim is now in place to enginier a Dictator to take over in the blink of the eye.Sooooo do you have any sugestions one how to stop the front man The Pres. and thoes who direct him?
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February 24th, 2006 at 1:27 pm
The average citizen has no concept of he dangers the NSA involves Also the Media will not give any facts to the puplic.
The mechinsim is now in place to enginier a Dictator to take over in the blink of the eye.Sooooo do you have any sugestions on how to stop the front man The Pres. and thoes who direct him?
My advocacy is Technocracy Inc.
Functial Scienitific Design for Scienitific Goverenance.
at www.technocracyinc.org
May 11th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Fotunatly ww2 was fought before this crop of democrats took office. Today we would lose it.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Senator Frank Church was a United States Patriot and one who believed in the rule of law, the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. Our great nation must awake from its slumber and reassert its God given rights of Freedom, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These rights are fundamental to our sovereignty as human beings. They are not granted by government but rather bestowed on us by our Creator. We must, as United States Citizens choose either a fear based reality or a faith based reality, one of service to self or service to others. Now is the age of choice. No more sitting on the fence flip flopping back from one ideal to another. We must remember Frank Church and his warning when we allow, through lack of awareness, our government to manipulate our system for its own evil agenda. Unchecked Power and control will only lead to our demise as a great nation. Pray to God enough of us wake up and are willing to give a clear voice to upholding our great national document, the United States Constitution. It is the law we should be following.
Peace
Robert Reckmeyer