Utah lawmaker floats bill to cut off NSA data centre's water supply

[dixiegrrrrl]

Utah is only the latest of about a dozen states to consider measures designed to restrict the NSA’s activities.

Utah:

Marc Roberts, a first-term Republican lawmaker in the Beehive State, plans this week to begin a quixotic quest to check government surveillance starting at a local level. He will introduce a bill that would prevent anyone from supplying water to the $1bn-plus data center the NSA is constructing in his state at Bluffdale.

The bill is about telling the federal government “if you want to spy on the whole world and American citizens, great, but we’re not going to help you,” Roberts told the Guardian.

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Utah is the 13th state legislature to consider sanctions on the federal government’s second largest spy agency.
The hashtag favored by local activists: #NullifyNSA.

In the NSA’s home state of Maryland, eight lawmakers are backing a bill to stymie the provision of water and electricity to the agency’s Fort Meade headquarters.
A similar measure, based off an initiative Maherrey’s organization calls the 4th Amendment Protection Act, has been introduced in California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Indiana, Mississippi, Washington state and Vermont.

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Four other states – Kansas, New Hampshire, Alaska and Missouri – are considering a related measure to prevent the sharing of NSA-derived data without a warrant.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/utah-lawmaker-nsa-data-centre-water-supply

[NV Whino]

1. Well, that's an interesting way to handle it.

[Historic NY]

2. I don't think it will work due to the...

Critical Infrastructure Protection Program in place since 1996 and subsequent changes made in the Patriot Act. The government could take over any of the systems especially if Federal funds were used to develop or improve them.

[bemildred]

5. I hope they do. There wil be hell to pay if they try. nt

[Common Sense Party]

3. Since an awful lot of Utah's water originates as snowpack on federally-owned lands,

I'd guess this proposal goes nowhere.

[Blue_Tires]

4. It's just empty posturing and showboating

and helps maintain the ruse that they're concerned and actually doing something, ala Rand Paul's "lawsuit"...

Maryland couldn't stop/slow water and power to Fort Meade any more than they could to the Goddard Space Flight Center, the Naval Academy, county public school systems or Andrews AFB...