Bloomberg: “Our Interpretation of the Constitution has to Change.”

by The Blog 

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is again doing the two things he does best: 1) exploiting a crisis for politics’ sake, and 2) directly attacking the Supreme Law of the land (and the human rights it protects).
Consider the following portion of Jill Colvin’s piece at Politicker:

“The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry,” Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. “But we live in a complex world where you’re going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.”
Mr. Bloomberg, who has come under fire for the N.Y.P.D.’s monitoring of Muslim communities and other aggressive tactics, said the rest of the country needs to learn from the attacks.
“Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11,” he said.
“We have to understand that in the world going forward, we’re going to have more cameras and that kind of stuff. That’s good in some sense, but it’s different from what we are used to,” he said.

This tactic was written long ago in the Book of Tyranny which says, “Sell the people safety when they are most afraid; accept only the currency of liberty as payment.”

The Chinese Press is even noting that the United States Government has been increasingly violating the rights of the American people with each and every expansion of its police and surveillance state.
Referring to a report called The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012 which was released by the Information Office of China’s State Council, the Beijing Review says:
U.S. citizens’ civil and political rights were further restricted by the government, the report says.
The U.S. government continues to step up surveillance of ordinary citizens, restricting and reducing the freedom of the U.S. society to a considerable extent, and seriously violating the freedom of citizens, according to the report.
The U.S. congress approved a bill in 2012 that authorized the government to conduct warrantless wiretapping and electronic communications monitoring, a move that violated people’s rights to privacy. …
The National Security Agency collects purely domestic communications of Americans in a “significant and systematic” way, intercepting and storing 1.7 billion emails, phone calls and other types of communications every day, the report says.

Also, the police often abused their power, resulting in increasing complaints and charges for infringement upon civil rights, the report said.
The proportion of women in the victims of domestic violence and sexual assault kept increasing in the U.S., it adds.
What a shame that China has to point out that America is not exactly “the land of the free” that it still claims to be.