However, as we have all seen repeatedly here on techdirt, there is a vast horde of utterly moronic crooks out there desperately trying to be counted too.
It is those millions upon millions of untalented petty criminals, stupid phone scammers and ass-dialing wannabe gangsters, that will be parading down US streets; banners held high, demanding their cut of the action.
Happily, there is no loyalty among thieves.
Perhaps the smarter ones will send out the smart ones to arrest the stupid ones.
It is indeed altogether possible.... and hopefully will become more and more the case.
I think what you're referring to will eventually become common, as people start to view the whistleblower as the people's hero against the institutional and corporate tyranny.... commonly called fascism. Snowden has laid a very good road upon which that kind of public hero can evolve.
Once started upon the road to Fascist Empire, there is no turning back for government because of the constantly increasing accumulation of criminal activities that need to be undertaken to achieve the goal of Empire.
To stop is to be caught with their myriad hands in all of the cookie jars.
Instead, the process of fear mongering via Drug War, Terror War, Cyber War, Etc. War and its accompanying pseudo-free-press scare stories has to escalate exponentially, mainly to keep the public off balance and under constant pressure and to prevent the public from having enough time to realize and analyze the flaws in the "Official Story" accompanying each pseudo-crisis and false flag operation.
I think we will be seeing more and more hidden informants and secret whistleblowers as time goes by and the government's escalating assault on freedom and "rights" becomes obviously its only real goal.
I am absolutely certain that if I were in a position of trust in one of the federal agencies today, and a young man, I would definitely be looking into ways and means of defeating the monster from within.
The vast discrepancy in numbers of parents VS children was indeed bothersome, but I had assumed it was because most of the parents had simply and correctly decided against inputting their child's information, as it was obviously unnecessary and dangerous.
What I find truly amazing is how the federal government and its agents are now using legal loopholes and "lawyerized wordings" - not to mention outright lies and witness coercion - in exactly the same fashion as wealthy gangsters have always done in the past, in order to escape the consequences of their crimes.
Pretty soon, American criminals of all stripes will be taking to the streets, protesting the lack of available victims, due to the federal government's unfair, mass, legalized, draconian exploitation of the general public.
Re: Re: No signs of intelligent life on the thrid rock from the sun.
You might want to read a book titled Sugar Blues, by William Dufty, and perhaps rethink "We've had diabetes since before white refined sugar showed up."
While I suppose it is possible that there were indeed cases of diabetes prior to the introduction of sucrose as a food, those cases will have been extremely rare and extremely few, worldwide.
It is always possible that other things might combine to cause a person to become diabetic, such as birth defects or exposure to, or contamination by other chemicals that act in the same way as sugar to destroy a person's body functions.
However, Diabetes' touted "Genetic Cause" is 100% pure commercial propaganda, paid for by the Sugar Industry, who had the medical name Sugar Diabetes changed to Diabetes through simple pay-offs to typical politicians.
Refined white sugar from sugar cane was once a pharmaceutical drug, for instance, before it was used popularly as a sweetener.
The book Sugar Blues (which is often difficult to find) follows the spread of the popular use of sugar as a food, across the planet and notes the maladies that follow in its wake.
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"We need generic drug solutions for diabetes NOW as well as healthy eating promotion programs."
While I would love to agree with this statement, especially the first part "we need", the word "solutions" completely invalidates the meaning you intended to convey.
Pharmaceutical concoctions developed for use by diabetics are not solutions, unless they actually cure the malady.
Instead, due entirely to the lucrative nature of the pharmaceutical business, all developed "drugs" for use by diabetics, will be, as I noted above, symptom masks that insure the malady remain profitably intact and happily generating income forever for the pharmaceutical industry.
Medical Science no longer seeks cures because cures eliminate a source of income - the disease - and deprive medical industry corporations of what they feel is their right to make money.
Regardless of their product or service, all corporations have a single goal in their mandate - greater profits year after year. They have no other purpose, drive or desire, and no corporation on earth has a mandate that includes anything remotely akin to a humane motive.
While the medical industry may legally (lie) claim publicly to be working towards the betterment of humanity, or seeking to eliminate ill-health, the actual activities of that industry are always 100% profit driven and cures are considered to be diametrically opposed to the mandate of all medical industry corporations.
Man o man, you really cannot fault the USG for doing the surveillance thing on the US public.
Absolutely nothing works better than blackmail to get those charged with dispensing justice, to instead dispense USG designed injustice on demand.
Lets face it folks. If you received an unmarked plain brown envelope in the mail, filled with photo and transcript records of every single misdeed you ever got away with since you were 11 years old and a note telling you what you must do to prevent the contents of the envelope from becoming tomorrow's news, you would most likely follow the instructions to the letter, just like these judges do.
There's no denying it. The Surveillance Program is the best tool the USG ever initiated for turning citizens into minions, instantly and cheaply.
And the really cool part is that the citizens who get blackmailed by the USG actually paid for the surveillance program and collection of documents found in that unmarked brown envelope.
Yeah, I know its pointless showing an idjit the error of his waste, but using a copy of software you did not pay for is not theft, or "theivery".
The use of that copy is "infringement of copyright", and you likely got it via "file-sharing", if you did not pay for it, which in some places is also a crime but is still not theft. If it was, you would be charged with theft.
The only way it could be theft is if you actually stole Microsoft's ONLY COPY of the software and did not give it back.
When you steal something, the owner of that thing loses that thing - it is gone because you took it. It doesn't matter one wit whether you use it or not. Taking it is the crime of theft, because you deprived the legal owner of the thing.
When you copy something, the owner of that something still has that something, because you did NOT take it. You took a copy of it. When you take a photograph of your girlfriend, you are creating a 2d miniature copy of her likeness, but are you stealing her likeness? Is her likeness gone if you walk away with her picture?
Yeah, I know. Way too many big words....ok, back in your box.
Actually, I think Whoever (Nov 30th, 2015 @ 3:25pm), and That One Guy (Nov 30th, 2015 @ 9:06pm), at the top here, nailed it perfectly.
Cops do not need physical evidence for exoneration, as exoneration for cops is almost automatic, no matter what sort of evidence might be presented for or against.
The Police Union people would not consider "exonerating videos" to be of any use at all, because, in the absence of irrefutable evidence that absolutely proves wrong-doing beyond a shadow of a doubt - like a "gotcha" cop-car dash-cam video of a cop shooting a kid 16 times - every cop is presumed to be completely innocent of all wrong doing, and thus has absolutely no need for "exonerating evidence" of any kind.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that today, cops are the only non-millionaire Americans that ARE presumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
"The USA gets more OIL from Canada, and S. America, so WHY the FRACK are we in the middle east??"
You're looking at it backwards - most people do.
If you shut down or at least slow oil production in the middle east through war and sabotage, you can cause a shortage of oil globally, and thereby cause the oil produced elsewhere - such as from the wells owned by the Five Eyes in Canada and S. America - to have greater value and higher price.
The Five Eyes are not in the middle east to steal the oil, but to turn the spigot off, so that their own oil production becomes more lucrative.
Later, when they finally take over the middle east and control the middle eastern oil, and their own fields are running dry, they'll turn the Middle Eastern spigots back on and turn of those nearly dry sources they currently own and exploit, maintaining high prices "to the last drop".
Its a simple plan Stan. And its been running successfully for decades upon decades, and shows no signs at all of being any less effective over the next century, because people have no way to stop billionaires from doing whatever billionaires want to do.
And Billionaires want to do only one thing - become Trillionaires, and then Quadrillionaires, and then Quintillionaires, etc., ad infinitum.
Re: Why arn't Politicians, Judges & Bureaucrats being prosecuted ?
This entire missive fails on one very important point.
"... right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States ..."
You see, after 9/11, the federal government gave itself the emergency power to secretly alter the Constitution and the Laws of the United States, such that they no longer secure either rights or privileges for anyone in the USA except those VIPs deemed necessary to the Security of the holdings of those VIPs, by a secret tribunal made up of those same VIPs that appointed themselves for the job right after 9/11.
Looks to me like that "shot over the bow" by members of the Five Eyes' Terrorist army - ISIS/ISIL, has indeed worked its coercive magic among the chicken-shit French politicians and now the French government, who is soon to host a Climate Conference that the Five Eyes wants shut down, is diligently arresting "climate warriors" to prove to the Five Eyes that they've got the message.
French Bums are now held high for well oiled Five Eyes "intrusion".
I definitely see much better French-US relations blossoming in the future, as the French start making up for lost time and unpaid dues through unquestioning obedience to their new Five Eyes masters.
Looks like the Climate Conference is gonna be a total sham too, since the Five Eyes considers Climate Change Repairs to be a complete waste of time, which is better spent making more money raping the earth and its populations.
What is truly remarkable to me is that apparently, nobody has ever considered the idea that maybe, just maybe, the reason why EVERY SINGLE METHOD ever used by the legacy industries to end "Piracy", has failed, is because the Legacy Industries need "Piracy" to remain active in order to get the maximal copyright laws passed.
The reason they only use methods guaranteed to fail, is to make it look like they're actively fighting "Piracy", without actually doing anything that might diminish the need for stronger anti-"Piracy" legislation.
Think War on Drugs, and you can see the same failure rate, for the same reason, with the same results.
No signs of intelligent life on the thrid rock from the sun.
The obvious solution is to stop feeding sucrose - white refined cane sugar - to children.
Honest studies would show plainly that sucrose is detrimental to every organ in the human body, from heart to head.
Of course, honest studies are about as rare as honest politicians.
The simple truth however, is that the obvious solution is never the solution that is chosen. Such solutions are not profitable.
Instead, we will seek an expensive medical/chemical method of masking the symptoms, so that the malady might generate income forever, for the makers of symptom masks, while the number of addicts whose bodies have begun to fail will continue to rise.
The USA has been bombing tiny countries into the stone age since World War Two ended. American "interests" have been instrumental in eliminating any place on earth that even tried to do real democracy, mainly because it would interfere with corporate exploitation of their resources.
The USA was no "sweeter" back in the 70's. It simply had better PR and did fewer public displays of terrorism - the internet sort of put an end to its ability to destroy small countries "secretly", "quietly" and "in defense of democracy".
Rebels, by whatever name you wish to use, do not grow out of thin air, nor do they suddenly appear in one nation because another nation has color TVs and SUVs, no matter what Benny Carson or Donny Trump might spew.
To make a terrorist, you need to destroy his home, kill his wife and kids, bomb his city/town/village into dust, poison his farmlands and his wells, and burn his animals into charcoal lumps. Then, if there is any left-over munitions or land mines laying about once your done, he and his friends might be able to jury-rig a bomb out of the parts and blow something up that belongs to the invaders.
To put it another way, if Canada invaded the USA and managed to infiltrate all levels of government through subterfuge and disguise and then began a program of elimination of Americans via internment camps, rationing of food and shelter, elimination of jobs and sources of income, and separation of families to prevent rebellion, while secretly and systematically killing off all males over the age of 15, Americans bent on revenge against the invaders would be called Rebels or Freedom Fighters by other Americans, but the Canux would label them Terrorists.
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Re: Re: In the merchant's kingdom...
Sadly, this is too absolutely true.
However, as we have all seen repeatedly here on techdirt, there is a vast horde of utterly moronic crooks out there desperately trying to be counted too.
It is those millions upon millions of untalented petty criminals, stupid phone scammers and ass-dialing wannabe gangsters, that will be parading down US streets; banners held high, demanding their cut of the action.
Happily, there is no loyalty among thieves.
Perhaps the smarter ones will send out the smart ones to arrest the stupid ones.
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Re: Re:
Guilty until proven guilty.
Nobody's innocent.
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Re: A Redactor with a conscience?
I think what you're referring to will eventually become common, as people start to view the whistleblower as the people's hero against the institutional and corporate tyranny.... commonly called fascism. Snowden has laid a very good road upon which that kind of public hero can evolve.
Once started upon the road to Fascist Empire, there is no turning back for government because of the constantly increasing accumulation of criminal activities that need to be undertaken to achieve the goal of Empire.
To stop is to be caught with their myriad hands in all of the cookie jars.
Instead, the process of fear mongering via Drug War, Terror War, Cyber War, Etc. War and its accompanying pseudo-free-press scare stories has to escalate exponentially, mainly to keep the public off balance and under constant pressure and to prevent the public from having enough time to realize and analyze the flaws in the "Official Story" accompanying each pseudo-crisis and false flag operation.
I think we will be seeing more and more hidden informants and secret whistleblowers as time goes by and the government's escalating assault on freedom and "rights" becomes obviously its only real goal.
I am absolutely certain that if I were in a position of trust in one of the federal agencies today, and a young man, I would definitely be looking into ways and means of defeating the monster from within.
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Re: Everyone's been kinda slow on the uptake here
Silly me.
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In the merchant's kingdom...
Pretty soon, American criminals of all stripes will be taking to the streets, protesting the lack of available victims, due to the federal government's unfair, mass, legalized, draconian exploitation of the general public.
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Re: Re: No signs of intelligent life on the thrid rock from the sun.
While I suppose it is possible that there were indeed cases of diabetes prior to the introduction of sucrose as a food, those cases will have been extremely rare and extremely few, worldwide.
It is always possible that other things might combine to cause a person to become diabetic, such as birth defects or exposure to, or contamination by other chemicals that act in the same way as sugar to destroy a person's body functions.
However, Diabetes' touted "Genetic Cause" is 100% pure commercial propaganda, paid for by the Sugar Industry, who had the medical name Sugar Diabetes changed to Diabetes through simple pay-offs to typical politicians.
Refined white sugar from sugar cane was once a pharmaceutical drug, for instance, before it was used popularly as a sweetener.
The book Sugar Blues (which is often difficult to find) follows the spread of the popular use of sugar as a food, across the planet and notes the maladies that follow in its wake.
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"We need generic drug solutions for diabetes NOW as well as healthy eating promotion programs."
While I would love to agree with this statement, especially the first part "we need", the word "solutions" completely invalidates the meaning you intended to convey.
Pharmaceutical concoctions developed for use by diabetics are not solutions, unless they actually cure the malady.
Instead, due entirely to the lucrative nature of the pharmaceutical business, all developed "drugs" for use by diabetics, will be, as I noted above, symptom masks that insure the malady remain profitably intact and happily generating income forever for the pharmaceutical industry.
Medical Science no longer seeks cures because cures eliminate a source of income - the disease - and deprive medical industry corporations of what they feel is their right to make money.
Regardless of their product or service, all corporations have a single goal in their mandate - greater profits year after year. They have no other purpose, drive or desire, and no corporation on earth has a mandate that includes anything remotely akin to a humane motive.
While the medical industry may legally (lie) claim publicly to be working towards the betterment of humanity, or seeking to eliminate ill-health, the actual activities of that industry are always 100% profit driven and cures are considered to be diametrically opposed to the mandate of all medical industry corporations.
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The perfect definition of political progress.
Absolutely nothing works better than blackmail to get those charged with dispensing justice, to instead dispense USG designed injustice on demand.
Lets face it folks. If you received an unmarked plain brown envelope in the mail, filled with photo and transcript records of every single misdeed you ever got away with since you were 11 years old and a note telling you what you must do to prevent the contents of the envelope from becoming tomorrow's news, you would most likely follow the instructions to the letter, just like these judges do.
There's no denying it. The Surveillance Program is the best tool the USG ever initiated for turning citizens into minions, instantly and cheaply.
And the really cool part is that the citizens who get blackmailed by the USG actually paid for the surveillance program and collection of documents found in that unmarked brown envelope.
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Re: Theivery
The use of that copy is "infringement of copyright", and you likely got it via "file-sharing", if you did not pay for it, which in some places is also a crime but is still not theft. If it was, you would be charged with theft.
The only way it could be theft is if you actually stole Microsoft's ONLY COPY of the software and did not give it back.
When you steal something, the owner of that thing loses that thing - it is gone because you took it. It doesn't matter one wit whether you use it or not. Taking it is the crime of theft, because you deprived the legal owner of the thing.
When you copy something, the owner of that something still has that something, because you did NOT take it. You took a copy of it. When you take a photograph of your girlfriend, you are creating a 2d miniature copy of her likeness, but are you stealing her likeness? Is her likeness gone if you walk away with her picture?
Yeah, I know.
Way too many big words....ok, back in your box.
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Re:
Cops do not need physical evidence for exoneration, as exoneration for cops is almost automatic, no matter what sort of evidence might be presented for or against.
The Police Union people would not consider "exonerating videos" to be of any use at all, because, in the absence of irrefutable evidence that absolutely proves wrong-doing beyond a shadow of a doubt - like a "gotcha" cop-car dash-cam video of a cop shooting a kid 16 times - every cop is presumed to be completely innocent of all wrong doing, and thus has absolutely no need for "exonerating evidence" of any kind.
In fact, I would go so far as to say that today, cops are the only non-millionaire Americans that ARE presumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
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Re: Interesting and entertaining..
You're looking at it backwards - most people do.
If you shut down or at least slow oil production in the middle east through war and sabotage, you can cause a shortage of oil globally, and thereby cause the oil produced elsewhere - such as from the wells owned by the Five Eyes in Canada and S. America - to have greater value and higher price.
The Five Eyes are not in the middle east to steal the oil, but to turn the spigot off, so that their own oil production becomes more lucrative.
Later, when they finally take over the middle east and control the middle eastern oil, and their own fields are running dry, they'll turn the Middle Eastern spigots back on and turn of those nearly dry sources they currently own and exploit, maintaining high prices "to the last drop".
Its a simple plan Stan. And its been running successfully for decades upon decades, and shows no signs at all of being any less effective over the next century, because people have no way to stop billionaires from doing whatever billionaires want to do.
And Billionaires want to do only one thing - become Trillionaires, and then Quadrillionaires, and then Quintillionaires, etc., ad infinitum.
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silly hoomuns
To: All Chief Field Operations Officers
The Term - "inside job" - will become more common as time goes by unless another, bigger attack is carried out ASAP.
We suggest hitting the building that the Climate Conference is expected to be held in.
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On the post: The NSA's Bulk Collection Of Phone Records Ended Saturday. Long Live The Bulk Collection Of Phone Records!
Re: Why arn't Politicians, Judges & Bureaucrats being prosecuted ?
"... right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States ..."
You see, after 9/11, the federal government gave itself the emergency power to secretly alter the Constitution and the Laws of the United States, such that they no longer secure either rights or privileges for anyone in the USA except those VIPs deemed necessary to the Security of the holdings of those VIPs, by a secret tribunal made up of those same VIPs that appointed themselves for the job right after 9/11.
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On the post: The NSA's Bulk Collection Of Phone Records Ended Saturday. Long Live The Bulk Collection Of Phone Records!
Another second, another sucker born.
Hail Hydra!
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On the post: French Government Using State Of Emergency As An Excuse To Round Up Climate Change Activists
Right on cue.
French Bums are now held high for well oiled Five Eyes "intrusion".
I definitely see much better French-US relations blossoming in the future, as the French start making up for lost time and unpaid dues through unquestioning obedience to their new Five Eyes masters.
Looks like the Climate Conference is gonna be a total sham too, since the Five Eyes considers Climate Change Repairs to be a complete waste of time, which is better spent making more money raping the earth and its populations.
Hail Hydra!
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The definition of insanity...
The reason they only use methods guaranteed to fail, is to make it look like they're actively fighting "Piracy", without actually doing anything that might diminish the need for stronger anti-"Piracy" legislation.
Think War on Drugs, and you can see the same failure rate, for the same reason, with the same results.
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old vs new
"Lest one bad cop be caught breaking the law, better that a million good cops should be falsely incriminated."
Slightly better than the old motto:
"Fuck the Public"
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No signs of intelligent life on the thrid rock from the sun.
Honest studies would show plainly that sucrose is detrimental to every organ in the human body, from heart to head.
Of course, honest studies are about as rare as honest politicians.
The simple truth however, is that the obvious solution is never the solution that is chosen. Such solutions are not profitable.
Instead, we will seek an expensive medical/chemical method of masking the symptoms, so that the malady might generate income forever, for the makers of symptom masks, while the number of addicts whose bodies have begun to fail will continue to rise.
That's the profitable solution.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Causes of Daesh recruitment
The USA has been bombing tiny countries into the stone age since World War Two ended. American "interests" have been instrumental in eliminating any place on earth that even tried to do real democracy, mainly because it would interfere with corporate exploitation of their resources.
The USA was no "sweeter" back in the 70's. It simply had better PR and did fewer public displays of terrorism - the internet sort of put an end to its ability to destroy small countries "secretly", "quietly" and "in defense of democracy".
Rebels, by whatever name you wish to use, do not grow out of thin air, nor do they suddenly appear in one nation because another nation has color TVs and SUVs, no matter what Benny Carson or Donny Trump might spew.
To make a terrorist, you need to destroy his home, kill his wife and kids, bomb his city/town/village into dust, poison his farmlands and his wells, and burn his animals into charcoal lumps. Then, if there is any left-over munitions or land mines laying about once your done, he and his friends might be able to jury-rig a bomb out of the parts and blow something up that belongs to the invaders.
To put it another way, if Canada invaded the USA and managed to infiltrate all levels of government through subterfuge and disguise and then began a program of elimination of Americans via internment camps, rationing of food and shelter, elimination of jobs and sources of income, and separation of families to prevent rebellion, while secretly and systematically killing off all males over the age of 15, Americans bent on revenge against the invaders would be called Rebels or Freedom Fighters by other Americans, but the Canux would label them Terrorists.
You earn the terrorists you get.
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On the post: Dumb Idea... Or The Dumbest Idea? Seize Terrorists' Copyrights And Then Censor Them With The DMCA
Re: Source & Salem?
Now that's some good reading. :)
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