Nexus of Thought: In what ways do American governmental agencies violate the Constitution?

Monday, April 4, 2022

In what ways do American governmental agencies violate the Constitution?

(My Answer in Quora)

There are a number of ways that they do this. The most obvious one is the mass surveillance program that the NSA has undertaken that has morphed into a violation of individual rights to privacy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nsa-spying-idUSKBN25T3CK

Another example is the way the FBI (most notably under James Comey) acted to undermine the Trump campaign.

You may have seen him on a prayer candle, but James Comey is no saint

New revelations have made clear the conclusion many of us had already come to: James Comey was a reckless and untrustworthy FBI director.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/30/james-comey-fbi-memo-leaks-trump-inspector-general-report-column/2157705001/

Fortunately it backfired.

Trump Is Winning His War on the FBI

Within the Bureau, there’s an asymmetry that even those who seek to play by the rules cannot ignore.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/fbi-trump-comey/597523/

Then there was this attack on an innocent civilian (Carter Page). The entire case was built on a stack of lies.

Trump-Russia Steele dossier analyst charged with lying to FBI

Igor Danchenko, who worked on a largely unsubstantiated 2016 dossier on Donald Trump, is arrested.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59168626

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I believe ….

1.That there is a God who transcends space and time. (I call it God for want of a name although I personally prefer the Kabbalistic term Ein Sof).

2. That it is impossible to know the nature of God. It cannot be truly defined.

3. That the universe operates according to the Laws of Physics. Life evolved through a combination of natural selection, genetic drift and other selection pressures acting on a genome whose variation arose as a consequence of mutation.

4. That God can intervene but such intervention is undetectable and does not contravene the laws of physics. God is a subtle actor who presents no evidence of understandable design.

5. That an agnostic position on a personal God makes sense.

6. That revealed religion are merely man made attempts at trying to understand God and although some carry the wisdom of earlier thought they are all inherently flawed.

7. That humans need to develop their own moral code based on reason, logic and the collective thinking of what has worked in the past.

8. That some religious customs may serve a purpose with respect to group cohesion but they need to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

9. That God is a minimalist in action but not necessarily a disinterested party.

10. That the afterlife is unknowable.

11. That skepticism and the scientific method are the best tools we have in understanding the world.