17 December 2013 (11:43 UTC-07 Tango )/13 Safar 1435/26 Azar 1392/15 Jia-Zi (11th month) 4711
“I cannot imagine a more ‘indiscriminate’ and ‘arbitrary’ invasion than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval. Surely, such a program infringes on ‘that degree of privacy’ that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment.”-Richard Leon, Federal District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. Federal District Judge, Richard Leon, has stated that the government data collection of its own citizens is unconstitutional, but is withholding official judgement in the case he’s presiding over. Leon cited “…significant national security interests at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues…” for withholding judgement.
This is the first time a federal judge, who was not part of the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, spoke against data collection. In previous data collection cases the judges were members of the evil FISC.
If you study NAZI Germany, you’ll find they created a similar court of convenience, which ruled all the government’s evil doings, including gas chambers and death camps, to be legal!