The Constitution does not say, "We don't like ex post facto law, but Congress can go ahead and pass it, and then let the courts sort things out." The Constitution says, "No ex post facto law ... shall be passed".
Any and all retroactive immunity for crimes already committed would require ex post facto law. And ex post facto law is unconstitutional, anti-Constitutional, and blatantly illegal. No ifs, ands, or buts. Got it? No politics tap-dancing around the good ol' boys. Got it? Purely anti-Constitutional and illegal. Got it?
So much for telecom immunity.
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Living in Fear of Our Government
by Cliff Carson
"The Constitution and the People rule America through the Congress"; that's the way it was meant to be; but Congress has abandoned our Constitution, and abandoned the People it was created to serve!
Is Congress is the problem? Congress has abandoned the "checks and balances" written in the Constitution that are supposed to control a runaway Executive or Judiciary - or, for that matter, any other elected or appointed leader or Governing entity that could usurp our Constitutional rights.
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A Century of War
by Stephen Lendman
William F. Engdahl calls his book "no ordinary history of oil" because what he recounts is suppressed in the mainstream and what passes for education in America. It settles for mediocrity, ignorance, and a barely literate public by design. As a result, people don't know that US manipulators arranged "the greatest confidence game the world had ever seen" - a "special hegemony" to:
-- print limitless dollar paper certificates to buy every imaginable product;
-- accumulate endless trade deficits;
-- "inflate (the) currency beyond imagination;"
-- have the government pay interest on its own money; and
-- create an unprecedented public and private debt to enrich an elite few at the expense of the greater good.
(read more here)
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