Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by martyb on Tuesday May 23 2017, @01:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-all-your-txts-are-still-belong-to-us dept.

Washington, DC—Reps. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Scott Perry (R-PA), both founding members of the Fourth Amendment Caucus, introduced legislation today to permanently codify protections on Americans’ privacy. Last month, the NSA announced it is ending its collection of Americans’ Internet communications that merely mention identifying terms for foreign targets, but are not to or from those targets, also known as "about" surveillance. The legislation introduced today would permanently codify this policy change into law. Gabbard and Perry, both veterans of the Iraq War, also co-chair the Post 9/11 Veterans Caucus.

Video of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s speech on the House floor is available here


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @11:13PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @11:13PM (#514566)

    Dave Emory, who is very much into connecting dots, has done considerable research on Tulsi Gabbard: [google.com]

    Specifically, he notes a radical organuization ("religious" whackos, no less) to which she has belonged for much of her life. Their leadership contains eugenics-supporting bigots. [spitfirelist.com]

    The first of two programs highlighting Tulsi Gabbard, a Democratic congressional representative from Hawaii, this broadcast notes [...] her networking with the Hindu nationalist/fascist government of Narendra Modi, the favorable view of Gabbard held by the Trumpenkampfverbande, and Gabbard's profound links to a branch of the Hare Krishna cult run by a fellow named Chris Butler aka Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa.
    [...]
    Marketed as "the first Hindu in Congress," Gabbard, her family, her in-laws and political milieu are deeply connected to an offshoot of the Hare Krishna sect in Hawaii led by Chris Butler aka Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa:

    Gabbard's Washington-based chief of staff, Kainoa Penaroza, is the son of Bill Penaroza, linked to a political front for Butler's organization. "...Kainoa Penaroza, who was appointed as Gabbard's Washington, D.C.-based chief of staff last month despite his relative lack of political experience, is the son of Bill Penaroza, who was among a slate of 14 candidates running for a variety of offices in 1976 under an enigmatic political party called the Independents for Godly Government. The party's connection to Butler was revealed in a three-part investigative series by the Honolulu Advertiser's Water Wright in 1977..."
    [...]
    [Abraham] Williams, Gabbard's now-husband, is from a family with deep ties to the Butler cult.
    [...]
    Tulsi's father Mike is also tied to the Butler cult
    [...]
    Tulsi's mother Carol is also tied to Butler
    [...]
    Gabbard herself denotes Butler as her personal guru

    [...]

    A devotee named Gopagopisvara Dasa wrote that Prabhupada clearly embraced racism and eugenics.

    "Prabhupada certainly believed that there was a master human race, the Aryans, and that they were white or tan," he wrote. "Most other races, such as Africans or Native Americans, were inferior."

    Of course, Prabhupada would never admit he was a racialist--at least not in the way westerners understand that word. He likely would not even understand the furor his remarks would have made (had they been broadcast to a wide audience, which they were not during his lifetime). Concepts like "civil rights" and "human equality" are indeed meaningless to someone like Prabhupada who devoted his life almost exclusively to ancient Vedic texts and prepared for the next world.

    Gabbard's military service gets mentioned a lot.
    In case anyone starts mentioning her to you as a potential presidential candidate, be aware that she was a REMF. [google.com]

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    Starting Score:    0  points
    Moderation   +1  
       Informative=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Informative' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   1  
  • (Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Wednesday May 24 2017, @12:43AM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Wednesday May 24 2017, @12:43AM (#514603)

    1. find her a curious mix, the rising star thing, like you said, BUT, that has been 'tainted' of late (in the eyes of the DLC, Deep State, conventional wisdom, etc...) by her opposition to syrian involvement, anti-drone stance, etc... *possible* she is simply another puppet for the puppet-masters to play, and is being given some credibility among the hoi polloi by these public stances against Empire... (see, obama, barack, community activist)
    .
    2. on the other paw, she might be a boy scout, er, girl scout who is a twue bewiever and really is tilting at windmills... surely she must know she is playing with dynamite if that is the case... Empire will brook only so much opposition to defuse the sheeple baring their fangs; but go too far, and Empire will bulldoze you out of his story...
    .
    3. as other posters say, hard to be too cynical when it comes to these types of 'restraints', etc, EVEN IF passed... WHO has been overseeing/enforcing that shit the last couple decades they were doing all the illegal shit they are no doubt still doing ? ? ? well, NO ONE, is the answer; exact same shit happens over and over...
    .
    4. lastly, while i respect her brass gonads and cranial folds, day-am she is a hottie...