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SALT LAKE CITY, February 12, 2014–Can Utah shut down the new NSA data
center by turning off the water? A new bill introduced by state Rep. Marc
Roberts seeks to do just that. The legislation drafted by a transpartisan
coalition organized by the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) and the Bill of
Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) called OffNow Coalition. The Utah Fourth
Amendment Protection Act would expressly prohibit state material support,
participation, and assistance to any federal agency that collects electronic
date or metadata without a search warrant “that particularly desribes the
person, place and thing to be searched or seized.”
“Without question, the mass surveillance and data collection by the Utah
Data Center is a delicate and important matter,” Roberts said. “But for me
, the language of the Fourth Amendment is clear. It simply protects us
against unreasonable and unwarranted searches or seizures of our persons,
private residencies and property, documents and information and personal and
private belongings. This legislation preserves those rights to the people.”
This puts contracts that provide the 1.7 million gallons of water a day
necessary to cool the NSA computers at its Bluffdale facility in the
crosshairs.
Bluffdale, a political subdivision of Utah, provided the NSA with a
sweetheart water deal. The bill would begin the process of ending that deal,
potentially crippling the NSA’s ability to keep the facility functional.
“No water equals no NSA data center,” TAC executive director Michael
Boldin said.
He called the potential impact of this legislation significant, especially
compared to what Congress has done to deal with the agency.
“In 1975, Sen. Frank Church warned that the power of the NSA could enable
‘total tyranny.’ He recommended that Congress should limit the agency’s
power. Almost four decades later, we’re still waiting. Congress is not
going to stop the NSA. The people and their states have to,” Boldin said.
“Turn it off.”
BORDC executive director Shahid Buttar echoed Boldin’s enthusiasm for state
action.
“At stake is nothing less than our nation’s triumph in the Cold War. The
NSA’s decade of warrantless surveillance en masse assaults not only the
rights of hundreds of millions of law-abiding Americans, and our democracy
as a whole, but resembles Soviet-style spying — on meth, empowered and
amplified by the past generation’s remarkable advances in computing
technology,” he said. “Utah residents have a chance to take matters into
their own hands, defending democracy by shutting off state resources
consumed by the Bluffdale data center in its assault on We the People, our
fundamental rights, and the Constitution that enshrined them.”
Notable anti-establishment figures such as Naomi Wolf and Pentagon Papers
whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg advise the BORDC.
“The NSA was welcomed by politicians in Utah with a promise that their
activities would be “conducted according to constitutional law”. As we all
know, that promise has been violated—institutionally, repeatedly, and
aggressively,” said Utah Libertas Institute President Conor Boyack. ”If
Congress and the Courts are unable or unwilling to rein in this beast and
put a stop to the rising surveillance state, then it’s up to the states to
stake their ground and resist such broad violations of the Constitution.
This new bill, along with others like it in over a dozen states, would
accomplish that very thing.”
As Boyack points out, Utah doesn’t stand alone. Earlier this week, a group
of Maryland legislators introduced a similar bill, targeting water and other
resources to NSA headquarters. Lawmakers in more than 10 other states,
including California, Vermont and Alaska, have also introduced the
legislation. A bill in Tennessee addresses material support and resources to
the NSA’s encryption-breaking facility at Oak Ridge. | e*****s
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: http://benswann.com/breaking-utah-legislators-move-to-kill-nsa-
: SALT LAKE CITY, February 12, 2014–Can Utah shut down the new NSA data
: center by turning off the water? A new bill introduced by state Rep. Marc
: Roberts seeks to do just that. The legislation drafted by a transpartisan
: coalition organized by the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) and the Bill of
: Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) called OffNow Coalition. The Utah Fourth
: Amendment Protection Act would expressly prohibit state material support,
: participation, and assistance to any federal agency that collects electronic
: date or metadata without a search warrant “that particularly desribes the
: person, place and thing to be searched or seized.”
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发帖数: 18685 | 4 一个还没提交的bill
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【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
: http://benswann.com/breaking-utah-legislators-move-to-kill-nsa-
: SALT LAKE CITY, February 12, 2014–Can Utah shut down the new NSA data
: center by turning off the water? A new bill introduced by state Rep. Marc
: Roberts seeks to do just that. The legislation drafted by a transpartisan
: coalition organized by the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) and the Bill of
: Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) called OffNow Coalition. The Utah Fourth
: Amendment Protection Act would expressly prohibit state material support,
: participation, and assistance to any federal agency that collects electronic
: date or metadata without a search warrant “that particularly desribes the
: person, place and thing to be searched or seized.”
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发帖数: 4631 | 5 建一个节水的数据中心不就得了。好像是联邦政府求着你一样。 | b*******8
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