Their ability was granted through one false justification that runs throughout their halls.
"Achieving Our Mission is top priority"
It is our self declared top priority of our given mission that gives us justification to abuse the innocent. Our oath to protect the innocent is either secondary or our mission and success is how we protect the innocent in ignoring the abuse.
The NSAs priority is to gather intel, in that they justify their wide net of attacking everyone, not just listening but in letting vulnerbilities remain which they can use. We will use our catching criminals as justification for letting millions of credit cards be stolen. We are justified in attacking your protections such as changing your encryption. We are fulfilling our mission, we are justified, look at the one in 10 we caught and the 9 which got away. Your rights and protections make it hard to do our job. We are justified in our abuses of the innocence who must free us from our oath to protect them first. These people are sick. Where does Q stand on this?
Step 2 after data collection as exemplified in civil forfeiture. We declare terrierism, yes these dogs, as reason to replace well defined evidence with undefined suspicion as justification for our laws, guilty until proven innocent. We now have all your data and only needing suspicion to accuse anyone.
Step 3 Skip the trial, write the judjement into the law and execute instant punishment. You are carrying money, under suspecion your are guilty, no evidence required. The penalty is confiscation. Judge Dredd makes our job so easy, no more investigations, or need for evidence.
Step 4. As in Smart Contracts, the letter of the law decides innocence or guilt regardless of the motive. If you cross the street to save a child, the no jaywalking law will always find you guilty. Stop saving children.
In this evil against the innocent deems itself justified.
How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
From Dark to Light
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