Or say that the Bill of Rights only applies to government?
The Intercept is now engaging in the same conduct the paper was founded to reject.
On Tuesday, one of the publication’s founders, Glenn Greenwald, who resigned last fall after his own paper refused to allow him to criticize Hunter Biden, posted an email to subscribers where its writers boast of their surveillance into conservative social media users.
“The Intercept was founded during the Snowden story to defend privacy rights & oppose the security state,” Greenwald tweeted. “Now, the liberal DNC hacks who ‘edit’ it are boasting they got personal data from Gab users & are sorting through it, doing FBI’s work to find ‘extremists.'”
https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/05/the-intercept-to-surveil-hacked-personal-data-searching-for-dangerous-extremists/Remember kids: At the Boston Tea Party, it wasn't government tea that was thrown into the water.
It seems incongruous to me that the Bill of Rights should only be observed by the government. It compels me to ask: is the government the only threat to our rights?
If so, why have any government?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men
Government is supposed to protect our rights.
If it will not, or it becomes the abuser of rights...
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
How much moreso when government is the abuser and works in conjunction with private parties that are also abusive to our rights.
