A US federal district court has rejected a case by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against the National Security Agency (NSA) over the latter’s mass surveillance program.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs had argued that the surveillance program was harmful, despite the NSA’s silence on it in court.
“The NSA’s mass surveillance violates our clients’ constitutional rights to privacy, freedom of speech, and freedom of association, and it poses a grave threat to a free internet and a free society,” said Ashley Gorski, a staff attorney with the ACLU national security project. “The private communications of innocent people don’t belong in government hands.”
Yet, the judge in the case, TS Ellis III, said the suit relied on “the subjective fear of surveillance”, because the NSA did not admit to having collected any of the information it was alleged to have collected by the ACLU, according to the Guardian.
Trying to put the focus back on guns. But, guns have been around for a long time, and so have the mentally ill. The surge in mass shootings coincides with the flooding of the American people with prescription anti-depressants, to the point where 1 out of every 4 people are on some form of these medications. Along with mass shootings, other forms of violence such as road rage, bar fights, domestic violence, police brutality, and suicide, have also surged right alongside the mass sales of these drugs to Americans!