Actually, when you think about, with the NSA opening up their big new data center in Bluffdale, Utah, it's almost probable that dozens of their employees read JazzFanz on the regular, not necessarily as part of their job, but just as fans. Once they decide to target him it's easy enough to track down the person posting as DutchJazzer. They probably already know what he had for breakfast.
I'm sure they have a big pile of data on him. And everyone else. What they will do with it is anybody's guess. Pretty sure there's limited will and financial and personnel resources to do anything more than isolated exemplary little displays of being serviceable to the public. Forty years ago, anyone who spoke of an attack on the President would have been arrested. Being "offshore" doesn't really mean "out of reach", then or now.
I think the management of this forum should curb this kind of statement. Obama might not be my favorite "President", though he represents a continuation of the same old deteriorating respect for law in America as our Presidents have generally had since, oh, maybe Andrew Jackson, who defied the Supreme Court saying "So Marshall has ruled, now let's see him enforce his ruling", and thence sent federal troops to unconstitutional relocate law-abiding Indian tribes residing east of the Mississippi, killing tens of thousands of them with gunfire or horrendous genocidal policies. I don't think Obama has sunk to that level, exactly.
But if we want a constitutional republic we can only maintain it by respect for our constitutional law.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_cherokee.html
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1830-1860/indian-treatiesHowever, the following year the Supreme Court reversed itself and ruled that Indian tribes were indeed sovereign and immune from Georgia laws. President Jackson nonetheless refused to heed the Court’s decision. He obtained the signature of a Cherokee chief agreeing to relocation in the Treaty of New Echota, which Congress ratified against the protests of Daniel Webster and Henry Clay in 1835. The Cherokee signing party represented only a faction of the Cherokee, and the majority followed Principal Chief John Ross in a desperate attempt to hold onto their land. This attempt faltered in 1838, when, under the guns of federal troops and Georgia state militia, the Cherokee tribe were forced to the dry plains across the Mississippi. The best evidence indicates that between three and four thousand out of the fifteen to sixteen thousand Cherokees died en route from the brutal conditions of the “Trail of Tears.”
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