Comment by bifrost
13 years ago
> Also, the Constitution itself forbids "ex post facto" laws, which means you can't be convicted of actions that were not actually crimes at the time you did it.
California and a few other states love ignoring this, I believe there's even legislation going up for vote this week that criminalizes exactly this. Until the government is adequately constrainted by its contstituency, we will always have overreaches.
> Until the government is adequately constrainted by its contstituency, we will always have overreaches.
If there's only one lesson I wish people would take away from all this NSA drama, it's this one.
The government is in the end what people make of it, nothing more or less.