Bill Thompson

I'm not saying they were going after American citizens, but they certainly knew they were and they just vacuumed shit up and collected it and stored it in a database.

In case they needed it.

In case at some point we needed to come up with a narrative or get rid of somebody who's inconvenient or whatever else that just flies in the face of individual American rights and American autonomy.

and is really, in my mind, the anti-pattern to freedom.

It's just really, really bad.

I mean, I'll give you one that people always crap on me whenever I talk to them about it, but there's two that really bother me, one of them being like the 17th Amendment.

Do you know the 17th Amendment of the Constitution?

I don't.

So when the founders, when you read the Federalist Papers, and the Federalist Papers, I really love reading the Federalist Papers.

I love reading how they informed the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration even.

John Jay, James Madison wrote these documents explaining the framework and the 17th Amendment, essentially how the Senate, the Senate, right, the 50 people there that are supposed to be representing us was originally constructed was a state would have legislatures and the state legislatures and the governor would appoint the senator.

The reason that the founders did that was because the state governments had to give power to the federal government to exist.

Back with the Articles of Confederation.

Confederation, is that right?

Articles of...

I think it's the Articles of Confederation.

I'm blowing up.

Sorry, I'm going nuts.

Back before there was a strong centralized American government, we had problems with money.

We had problems with interstate commerce and those types of things.