Thomas Drake
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874 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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So it's those 10, those first 10.
And I could argue, though, that what's the foundation of all of that is the First Amendment.
But if you don't have the Fourth Amendment,
then what does that mean?
Because the Fourth Amendment, in some ways, I experienced directly was violating that because it was weaponized against me, was to punish me for speech, was to punish me from association.
It was to punish me from speaking out.
It was to punish me as a whistleblower.
It was to punish me to how dare you hold up a mirror to power, in this case, the abuse of power.
How dare you?
So you're going to pay the price because you're exposing the abuse of power, but we're in power.
This is sort of the Joseph Heller in the catch 20, you know, the catch 22 novel where the Colonel is Colonel Cathcart is like, who's going to stop us now?
We have the power.
And that's in part where power, you know,
Is it a permanent condition?
No, I don't think it actually is.
But it can cause huge wreckage on many, many lives before it disappears.
And there is this tendency, just, I mean, again, look at the dustbins of history and all the mechanisms for the millennia that have been used to impose control on other human beings.
for the sake of power.
And if you decide to go up against power, we can, up to and including extinguishing you, getting rid of you.
But see, now you're going full circle back to the surveillance state.
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