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JDPriestly

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16. As a rule, limitations on our fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution must be reasonable.
Tue Jul 9, 2013, 06:54 PM
Jul 2013

The PRISM system and the laws protecting it from judicial review do not permit us to know information about how the system works or what it is doing, thus, I do not see how in the world anyone can claim that those laws are reasonable.

They are not limitations. They are bars to judicial review and to our communicating our discontent, our grievances about the law, to the government.

The question will be whether these extreme bars are justified.

I don't see how they can be, but I figure it will take a number of decisions and many, perhaps many, many, many years to change the acquiescence of our judiciary to this clear violation of our rights.

The easiest thing to do to change the law is to complain loudly, often and very clearly to members of Congress.

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