Is the "Classified Enemy" of the US Government and its Organized Corporate Masters actually beginning to realize that its under assault by its own government and the combined forces of the wealthiest citizens on earth??
Now that would be something to witness.
The sheer anger of the masses, once they discover the extent of the betrayal should rival the energy put out by the sun.
Nah. It could never happen here.
It would interfere with the football season....
"The administration will seek to minimize those changes, but just the admission that changes need to happen is at least a baby step in the right direction."
I don't think you're going to be very happy with the changes that your president has been ordered to implement however. The only changes that his corporate masters are considering are changes that make it :
a. impossible to leak more info about these surveillance operations by making it illegal for any news service to publish such things, and
b. impossible to hold anyone responsible for any of the abuses that will continue to take place at an ever increasing rate, such as the telcos' and NSA's employees.
But I'll just bet you thought he meant he was going to put limits on the spooks' snooping potential didn't you...
Weapons were absolutely present. As to type, I'm not an expert and the images were no where clear enough to determine their make/type. However, as you stated many times, this was a battle zone and only reporters, women and children might be expected to walk about in a battle zone unarmed.
However, at no time did I see any of the people on the film aim their weapons at the helicopter - in fact, if the chopper was visible to them, they appeared to be utterly unconcerned about it.
While I'm grateful for the links, none of this has anything at all to do with my point however, that the reporter for KIRO TV lied and that this is the reason why so many Americans argue over the facts of events - misinformation.
There was no "crossfire" and the people in the video were simply gunned down by the US soldiers because 4-5 of them carried weapons in a combat zone. The chopper was under no threat of being fired upon at any time.
As to your repeated attempts to make the case that men in combat must kill or be killed, please give it a rest. We will almost all do the same thing when faced with imminent harm/threat of death and this is indeed human nature.
If you were not inducted and actually joined the armed forces, you can no longer use this as an excuse for your actions or their repercussions anyway. If you were inducted, than you can thank the US corporations that proffited from and pushed for this assualt on a foreign country under the guise of Spreading Democracy, for your nightmares.
This pointless argument simply has no bearing on my statement about the media spewing misinformation being the cause of most American's confusion about events in the real world. It has no bearing on whether or not the civilians in the video were killed in a crossfire or simply gunned down by adrenalin-high youths in uniform.
It merely tries to excuse the actions of these uniformed US kids, which tells me that you know full well there was no crossfire involved.
The only bearing it could have would be to point out how you were similarily misinformed about "The Enemy" and led to believe that they posed a threat to the USA - and were fooled into going off to fight another war to make US millionaires into billionaires.
For the love of Mike, the "Piracy" problem was manufactured by the entertainment industry and its friends specifically to allow the entertainment industry and its friends to force lawmakers to give it the internet via such awful legislation as SOPA and PIPA.
You cannot pass laws like these without first having a "serious" problem to solve and the Big Corporations simply created the problem by producing and giving away all of the first Peer To Peer software packages to the public and providing the first websites that allowed the downloading of copyrighted materials using these P2P software packages.
This is simple internet history and the fact that nobody seems to know this is astounding.
Once the "Piracy" problem had received enough bad press to make it appear as a rampant criminal activity, the same corporations rallied their lawyers and presented government with the laws needed to kill the free transfer of information on the web and give policing control to them through maximalist copyright laws.
They saw the writing on the wall a decade or more ago and knew that they were soon to be replaced by smarter, smoother oeprations that offered good product, conveniently at a great price, and they decided to prevent this at any cost.
And as long as the general population remains utterly ignorant of this simple bit of history, we all run the risk that these dinosaur industries will succeed in destroying the greatest tool for human advancement ever created.
And I assume thus, that the internet's days are numbered, as the public appears to be getting dumber by the day.
Well, as much fun as its been discussing your inability to take responsibility for your actions, (YOU SENT THEM THERE), I'd rather get back to my original point, which you have avoided professionally I might add.
You see, whether or not this claimed battle was or was not taking place 300 feet away, getting caught in the crossfire has absolutely nothing at all to do with being targetted by a hovering gunship full of adrenalin boosted kill-jockeys.
Getting Caught In The Crossfire means; inadvertantly placing oneself between two or more other groups who are firing weapons at each other.
You already know this, which is why I called you an obfuscating liar early on.
My point was simple: it is no wonder that the American People have no clue about actual events and are easily fooled by authourity into believing the PR storybook version of events. The lady on KIRO TV lied, plain and simple, and this is the most common source of information Americans use - TV.
BTW - if you happen to have a link to this "other" version of this video - the one not "redacted" by the Evil Wikileaks that clearly shows weapons in the hands of the victims/villains - I'm certain that many more than just I would love to see it for ourselves. I would think that the fed would be posting such a video everywhere to prove their innocence, yet I have never come across such a video, nor have I ever even heard about such till now.
If you don't have such a link, no problem, my original assessment of your nature will remain unsullied as will my original comment about Americans being lied to by their "trusted" information media.
However, the damage control you offer bears a striking resemblance to self delusion and I suspect that it was more an attempt to whitewash your own criminal acts under orders than to prove your tale's truth.
Nobody seen on the video is wielding a weapon. The helicopter hung above long enough to determine that and that these were civilians.
Your sad appeal to gung-hoism and patriotism is noted and rejected as rationale for murder.
As I stated before, I understand that (as a soldier who has apparently committed murder under orders), you desperately need to maintain your belief in this pretty lie and hope to convince others that you're a good guy just following orders.
I wish you luck with that, but I'm not buying it. You're head is not in the sand - you were there and saw the truth. That you choose instead to aid the criminals by obfuscation and outright lies, tells me that you left your humanity somwhere on the battlefield, or that you're simply doing your job still and collecting your silver.
RE: Re: 35 years - sending the message loud and clear
Well, well. Either a gunship crewman or a card-carrying member of the establishment itself!
So, tell us all, Anonymous Coward, how is it you know about the "hot battle between U.S. forces and insurgents" raging a mere football field away?? Were you there?? Perhaps in a gunship hovering over a bunch of reporters...
I define the killing of civilians - whether in the middle of a battlefield or elsewhere - as murder.
You obviously define such deaths as collateral mishap, as long as the dead bodies happen to be members of the enemy-of-the-day, no? I wonder - *pointlessly of course - whether you would feel the same way if those who were gunned down had been your family members or friends.
*Pointlessly, because I do not expect an honest answer.
Does anyone know how high these gunships hover?? Seems to me that these invisible-AK47 packing Reporters were utterly uaware of either the raging battle a football field away, or the hovering gunship. How did the heli-jockeys determine that they were about to be fired upon....
Actually, nevermind. I realize that this anonymous coward really needs this pretty lie to remain true in his mind and that no amount of reality will ever change that tune. I know hopeless when I meet it.
Watching KIRO TV last night, they mentioned Mister Manning's sentencing and showed the famous clip of the reporters being gunned down by the US helicopter jockeys.
The lady reporter then stated "the video shows that civilians were caught in the crossfire."
What crossfire?? They were murdered - premeditated - plain and simple, by men who actually giggled about their deaths.
Crossfire??
No wonder the US population is so completely baffed out and unable to understand even the simplest of current events.
When invaders take over a country, they must take over the public news media first. Mission Accomplished.
In case anyone is interested, an excellent exercise that works very well in deciphering US current events, is to replace the words "Federal Government" with the words "Organized Crime", "Government Officials" with "O.C. PR Hacks", and "Police, CIA, FBI, NSA, IRS Agents" with "Mob Enforcers".
Suddenly all of the wierd activities, like suicide by cop, cops taking people's cell phones and arresting 5 year old kids for swearing, and massive communications surveillance and global facial recognition check points, will start to make a hell of a lot more sense.
Of course, it helps to know that Fascism is a business model and not a political affiliation. In fact, the MAFIA is a business model also. :)
As for Terrorists, if you want to absolutely end all terrorism against the USA, all you have to do is stop bombing small countries into the dark ages, and rebuild all of those that have already been destroyed by US troops working for O.C. controlled and owned US corporations.
"And despite all this evidence that the NSA's "oversight" is nearly completely compromised, the defenders, including those within the agency, continue to insist the system is working the way it should.
In their eyes, maybe it is."
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Precisely.
Now all that is left is to decide exactly why all of this is taking place. As is readily apparent to anyone with an active brain-cell or two, none of this has anything whatsoever to do with terrorists, or stopping enemies of the US from doing bad things to the US.
There is actually only one reason why people go to these lengths in secret even after they've been caught, and that, in a word, is - "Money".
When you're stealing the world's business secrets, and their corporate plans and using intercepted emails, phone calls and letters to blackmail all of your club-member corporation's competition world-wide, every hour you can stay on the path means many more millions of dollars stashed away in your private offshore accounts.
Like the banks, the O.C. controlled member corporations running this show assume they will suffer no penalties because they have the full approval of the White House and operate under the special laws provided for just this purpose by the last few corporate-chosen presidents.
What you might want to ask yourselves, is "just what has Organised Crime been doing for the last 3/4 of a century with all of that untaxable drug money its been pulling in?"
To put it as simply as possible, they have been buying themselves a country.
And "You the People" are now an owned resource that comes with the deal.
You might note that you are now being treated exactly like an owned commodity by law enforcement and government, if you were not afraid to look behind the shadows.
Of course, it is so much easier to believe the pretty lie than to look the ugly truth in the face, so I expect that this will be ignored as always, while the pretty lies offered by organized criminals sitting in office will be believed as usual.
Listen to your President instead. After all, he was "hired" specifically because he can spin a pretty lie better than almost anyone, (even if it is proven to be complete BS the very next day, thanks entirely to Mister Snowden and the Guardian.)
Since very few citizens actually do follow-ups on the Presidential BS Speeches to verify the veracity of their contents, only the pretty lie is heard, and this suits both the "rulers" of the USA and its resource population perfectly well.
I keep wondering why the internet community has not yet figured out a way to turn this to its advantage.
After all, if there is no consequence to filing a BS DMCA takedown notice, why not start a campaign to remove say, all of Microsoft's ads, or Verison, or AT&T, or Ford, or well.. you get the picture.
Maybe, if a few million of these things get used to slap the big-boy's stuff off the web, the lawmakers will start to consider putting some consequences on the activity.
... or is it a necessity that in order to file a DMCA takedown one must also be a "member" of a large corporate entity??
Personally, I think the man is certifiable - a paranoid - and extremely dangerous to those around him and methinks he should be locked up in a soft fuzzy cell before he can explode and kill people he thinks are hackers or worse.... Twitters!!!
It really is no wonder that the NSA wants to know what everyone is talking about behind its back. It apparently only hires proven crazy people who think everyone is out to get'em.
Its simply the O'bumma Admin's 'best' attempt to prove that the total 24/7 surveillance of everything that everyone says or writes, anywhere on earth, has succeeded in catching a bad guy before his bad guy plans could be realized. It'll likely take them another week to come up with a good "bad-guy plan" scenario, like nuking Disney World, if they don't just invoke "Classified" instead.
In other words, its a large crock o'crap spread thickly in hopes of fooling all the people one more time into believing that The Fed is the Good Guy with naught more on its mind than your well being. Sadly, it will work far better than it should. It always does. Collectively we prefer the pretty lie over the ugly truth every time.
The surveillance of everyone on earth has but one real purpose; to steal business plans, inventions and ideas, in order to make it easier for American Corporations to make more money and to eliminate their competition. Period.
"Yes, informing the American public of misdeeds by the US government is considered "aiding the enemies of the United States." The reality, of course, is what they're saying is that they really mean "the current government" when they refer to "the United States," and "the enemies" are the American public."
Well, its about time somebody finally realized that YOU the People, are the "enemy of the state".
The corporate-owned federal Government has been waging a war against its people for a decade or more and the very people its been attacking and destroying, are the folks PAYING for the war effort with their tax dollars.
Maybe now the American Puplic will begin thinking about defending itself against this monstrous entity that has invaded and conquered their government and their nation.
Somehow though, I doubt even such a blatant example as this will manage to wake "We the People" = "Enemy of the State" from its beer and TV induced stupor.
To enjoy the American Dream, apparently, Americans must remain asleep.
PMGMT, Feb 11th, 2012 @ 9:18pm, wrote:
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"you don't just walk into a record store and grab some CDs off the shelf and walk out because you think you should be able to. unless you do do that kind of thing. which would make you a thief."
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Nice try. That's a false argument and I assume you know it.
If you steal something, that something is gone.
Others cannot have access to it because you took it away.
Unless and until the copying of a thing literally removes that thing from circulation for everyone else, it cannot be considered and should not be called theft.
Those who use this kind of false, emotion-laden terminology show only that their goal is misinformation - making everything else they say immediately suspect.
Copying is, at worst, an infringement, entirely because of copyright laws, and in no way harms or disturbs the thing that was copied.
Whether one considers copying to be morally correct or not, copying is simply not theft, regardless of how many laws try and paint it that way.
"Unfortunately or fortunately this is pure BS and ignorance. P2P software is used legitimately by most folks. There is no such thing as software designed for piracy."
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So, did you watch the video I posted the link to?
Didn't think you would. :)
This issue is not about people using the software legitimately or illegitimately. Its about the software's intended usage - to download copyright material without paying the original creator of that material.
This is the purpose the software was developed for and the people who developed it and promoted it and distributed it to the world are the same people who are today trying to push SOPA and PIPA into law. This is the issue. The video proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The Piracy Problem is a sham, created to force lawmakers into putting content-control legislation into law that would give the creators of the Piracy Problem full control of all content on the web.
SOPA and PIPA have nothing at all to do with stopping Piracy and everything to do with taking over control of all content on the internet.
The internet has shown itself to be an outstanding tool in the fight against the mega-wealthy forces of repression and corruption and those forces have decided that enough is enough and are planning to remove that tool from public hands. This is happening world-wide, not just in America. Similar legislation, all of it written by the entertainment industry, is being introduced quietly to governments all over the globe.
So, you're perfectly within your rights to remain as unaware of the real situation as you like, but please realize that by doing so, you become a part of the problem.
For those of you too young to have personally visited the websites the entertainment industry used to promote and distribute the first P2P software packages, here's a little video that explains it all with pictures of those old pages.
It would be nice if some of you spread this around as its painfully obvious that this information is not a part of public knowledge any more.
Once the public is made aware of the true criminals in this affair, those who feel they have lost income due to P2P will know who to seek redress and reparation from.
Enough attempted law suits against Disney, Microsoft and the rest and perhaps the delinquent federal government might actually do its job and start investigating these huge criminal corporations.
A simple note to all those artists and writers and programmers and musicians who feel they have lost money to piracy.
The companies that wrote SOPA and PIPA are the same companies that created, promoted and distributed all the P2P software on their own and associated websites for a decade. Disney, Time Warner, Microsoft and their associates in the Entertainment Industry created the Piracy Problem specifically so that they could convince legislators that a piracy problem existed and get their pet content-control laws enacted.
SOPA and PIPA and other identical acts now being initiated in a variety of countries around the world, were designed by corporate think-tanks, to turn the control of all content on the web over to the entertainment industry and their associated friends.
By law, those who created, distributed and promoted software for the purpose of downloading copyright material, are responsible for any criminal use of that software.
If you want to sue someone for stealing your intellectual property, art works, music, stories and programs, start with the companies that made piracy possible, who created the means and the desire to download copyright material and started the entire process, just to screw everyone out of another freedom the corporate fascists disagree with. Freedom of content on the web.
Know your enemy, or continue to strike out at shadows.
On the post: The US Government Has Betrayed The Internet; It's Time To Fix That Now
Could it be true?
Could the sleeping giant actually be stirring?
Is the "Classified Enemy" of the US Government and its Organized Corporate Masters actually beginning to realize that its under assault by its own government and the combined forces of the wealthiest citizens on earth??
Now that would be something to witness.
The sheer anger of the masses, once they discover the extent of the betrayal should rival the energy put out by the sun.
Nah. It could never happen here.
It would interfere with the football season....
On the post: Obama: Checks & Balances Work Great To Prevent Abuse By NSA... But, Perhaps We Could Fix Things
I don't think you're going to be very happy with the changes that your president has been ordered to implement however. The only changes that his corporate masters are considering are changes that make it :
a. impossible to leak more info about these surveillance operations by making it illegal for any news service to publish such things, and
b. impossible to hold anyone responsible for any of the abuses that will continue to take place at an ever increasing rate, such as the telcos' and NSA's employees.
But I'll just bet you thought he meant he was going to put limits on the spooks' snooping potential didn't you...
Silly humans.
On the post: Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years
Weapons were absolutely present. As to type, I'm not an expert and the images were no where clear enough to determine their make/type. However, as you stated many times, this was a battle zone and only reporters, women and children might be expected to walk about in a battle zone unarmed.
However, at no time did I see any of the people on the film aim their weapons at the helicopter - in fact, if the chopper was visible to them, they appeared to be utterly unconcerned about it.
While I'm grateful for the links, none of this has anything at all to do with my point however, that the reporter for KIRO TV lied and that this is the reason why so many Americans argue over the facts of events - misinformation.
There was no "crossfire" and the people in the video were simply gunned down by the US soldiers because 4-5 of them carried weapons in a combat zone. The chopper was under no threat of being fired upon at any time.
As to your repeated attempts to make the case that men in combat must kill or be killed, please give it a rest. We will almost all do the same thing when faced with imminent harm/threat of death and this is indeed human nature.
If you were not inducted and actually joined the armed forces, you can no longer use this as an excuse for your actions or their repercussions anyway. If you were inducted, than you can thank the US corporations that proffited from and pushed for this assualt on a foreign country under the guise of Spreading Democracy, for your nightmares.
This pointless argument simply has no bearing on my statement about the media spewing misinformation being the cause of most American's confusion about events in the real world. It has no bearing on whether or not the civilians in the video were killed in a crossfire or simply gunned down by adrenalin-high youths in uniform.
It merely tries to excuse the actions of these uniformed US kids, which tells me that you know full well there was no crossfire involved.
The only bearing it could have would be to point out how you were similarily misinformed about "The Enemy" and led to believe that they posed a threat to the USA - and were fooled into going off to fight another war to make US millionaires into billionaires.
C'est la vie eh.
On the post: Kevin Spacey: Give Users Control, What They Want, When They Want It, At A Fair Price, And Stop Worrying About Piracy
You cannot pass laws like these without first having a "serious" problem to solve and the Big Corporations simply created the problem by producing and giving away all of the first Peer To Peer software packages to the public and providing the first websites that allowed the downloading of copyrighted materials using these P2P software packages.
This is simple internet history and the fact that nobody seems to know this is astounding.
Once the "Piracy" problem had received enough bad press to make it appear as a rampant criminal activity, the same corporations rallied their lawyers and presented government with the laws needed to kill the free transfer of information on the web and give policing control to them through maximalist copyright laws.
They saw the writing on the wall a decade or more ago and knew that they were soon to be replaced by smarter, smoother oeprations that offered good product, conveniently at a great price, and they decided to prevent this at any cost.
And as long as the general population remains utterly ignorant of this simple bit of history, we all run the risk that these dinosaur industries will succeed in destroying the greatest tool for human advancement ever created.
And I assume thus, that the internet's days are numbered, as the public appears to be getting dumber by the day.
On the post: Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years
You see, whether or not this claimed battle was or was not taking place 300 feet away, getting caught in the crossfire has absolutely nothing at all to do with being targetted by a hovering gunship full of adrenalin boosted kill-jockeys.
Getting Caught In The Crossfire means; inadvertantly placing oneself between two or more other groups who are firing weapons at each other.
You already know this, which is why I called you an obfuscating liar early on.
My point was simple: it is no wonder that the American People have no clue about actual events and are easily fooled by authourity into believing the PR storybook version of events. The lady on KIRO TV lied, plain and simple, and this is the most common source of information Americans use - TV.
BTW - if you happen to have a link to this "other" version of this video - the one not "redacted" by the Evil Wikileaks that clearly shows weapons in the hands of the victims/villains - I'm certain that many more than just I would love to see it for ourselves. I would think that the fed would be posting such a video everywhere to prove their innocence, yet I have never come across such a video, nor have I ever even heard about such till now.
If you don't have such a link, no problem, my original assessment of your nature will remain unsullied as will my original comment about Americans being lied to by their "trusted" information media.
On the post: Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years
Damage Control
However, the damage control you offer bears a striking resemblance to self delusion and I suspect that it was more an attempt to whitewash your own criminal acts under orders than to prove your tale's truth.
Nobody seen on the video is wielding a weapon. The helicopter hung above long enough to determine that and that these were civilians.
Your sad appeal to gung-hoism and patriotism is noted and rejected as rationale for murder.
As I stated before, I understand that (as a soldier who has apparently committed murder under orders), you desperately need to maintain your belief in this pretty lie and hope to convince others that you're a good guy just following orders.
I wish you luck with that, but I'm not buying it. You're head is not in the sand - you were there and saw the truth. That you choose instead to aid the criminals by obfuscation and outright lies, tells me that you left your humanity somwhere on the battlefield, or that you're simply doing your job still and collecting your silver.
I leave you to your karma.
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Damage control
Well, well. Either a gunship crewman or a card-carrying member of the establishment itself!
So, tell us all, Anonymous Coward, how is it you know about the "hot battle between U.S. forces and insurgents" raging a mere football field away?? Were you there?? Perhaps in a gunship hovering over a bunch of reporters...
I define the killing of civilians - whether in the middle of a battlefield or elsewhere - as murder.
You obviously define such deaths as collateral mishap, as long as the dead bodies happen to be members of the enemy-of-the-day, no? I wonder - *pointlessly of course - whether you would feel the same way if those who were gunned down had been your family members or friends.
*Pointlessly, because I do not expect an honest answer.
Does anyone know how high these gunships hover?? Seems to me that these invisible-AK47 packing Reporters were utterly uaware of either the raging battle a football field away, or the hovering gunship. How did the heli-jockeys determine that they were about to be fired upon....
Actually, nevermind. I realize that this anonymous coward really needs this pretty lie to remain true in his mind and that no amount of reality will ever change that tune. I know hopeless when I meet it.
So you can put your head back in the sand now.
On the post: Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years
35 years - sending the message loud and clear
The lady reporter then stated "the video shows that civilians were caught in the crossfire."
What crossfire?? They were murdered - premeditated - plain and simple, by men who actually giggled about their deaths.
Crossfire??
No wonder the US population is so completely baffed out and unable to understand even the simplest of current events.
When invaders take over a country, they must take over the public news media first. Mission Accomplished.
On the post: Declassified FISA Court Opinion Shows NSA Lied Repeatedly To The Court As Well
SPY VS SPY addendum
Suddenly all of the wierd activities, like suicide by cop, cops taking people's cell phones and arresting 5 year old kids for swearing, and massive communications surveillance and global facial recognition check points, will start to make a hell of a lot more sense.
Of course, it helps to know that Fascism is a business model and not a political affiliation. In fact, the MAFIA is a business model also. :)
As for Terrorists, if you want to absolutely end all terrorism against the USA, all you have to do is stop bombing small countries into the dark ages, and rebuild all of those that have already been destroyed by US troops working for O.C. controlled and owned US corporations.
Heads back in the sand again now.
On the post: Declassified FISA Court Opinion Shows NSA Lied Repeatedly To The Court As Well
Spy VS Spy
In their eyes, maybe it is."
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Precisely.
Now all that is left is to decide exactly why all of this is taking place. As is readily apparent to anyone with an active brain-cell or two, none of this has anything whatsoever to do with terrorists, or stopping enemies of the US from doing bad things to the US.
There is actually only one reason why people go to these lengths in secret even after they've been caught, and that, in a word, is - "Money".
When you're stealing the world's business secrets, and their corporate plans and using intercepted emails, phone calls and letters to blackmail all of your club-member corporation's competition world-wide, every hour you can stay on the path means many more millions of dollars stashed away in your private offshore accounts.
Like the banks, the O.C. controlled member corporations running this show assume they will suffer no penalties because they have the full approval of the White House and operate under the special laws provided for just this purpose by the last few corporate-chosen presidents.
What you might want to ask yourselves, is "just what has Organised Crime been doing for the last 3/4 of a century with all of that untaxable drug money its been pulling in?"
To put it as simply as possible, they have been buying themselves a country.
And "You the People" are now an owned resource that comes with the deal.
You might note that you are now being treated exactly like an owned commodity by law enforcement and government, if you were not afraid to look behind the shadows.
Of course, it is so much easier to believe the pretty lie than to look the ugly truth in the face, so I expect that this will be ignored as always, while the pretty lies offered by organized criminals sitting in office will be believed as usual.
Listen to your President instead. After all, he was "hired" specifically because he can spin a pretty lie better than almost anyone, (even if it is proven to be complete BS the very next day, thanks entirely to Mister Snowden and the Guardian.)
Since very few citizens actually do follow-ups on the Presidential BS Speeches to verify the veracity of their contents, only the pretty lie is heard, and this suits both the "rulers" of the USA and its resource population perfectly well.
OK now, heads back in the sand.
On the post: Microsoft Uses DMCA To Block Many Links To Competing Open Office
Guerilla DMCA
After all, if there is no consequence to filing a BS DMCA takedown notice, why not start a campaign to remove say, all of Microsoft's ads, or Verison, or AT&T, or Ford, or well.. you get the picture.
Maybe, if a few million of these things get used to slap the big-boy's stuff off the web, the lawmakers will start to consider putting some consequences on the activity.
... or is it a necessity that in order to file a DMCA takedown one must also be a "member" of a large corporate entity??
Just a thought...
On the post: Former NSA Boss Calls Snowden's Supporters Internet Shut-ins; Equates Transparency Activists With Al-Qaeda
Hayden be Hatin' everyone who aint Hayden
It really is no wonder that the NSA wants to know what everyone is talking about behind its back. It apparently only hires proven crazy people who think everyone is out to get'em.
On the post: The NSA Leaks Put Our 'Methods' At Risk, But Bragging About Monitoring Al Qaeda Emails Doesn't?
Spy VS Spy
Its simply the O'bumma Admin's 'best' attempt to prove that the total 24/7 surveillance of everything that everyone says or writes, anywhere on earth, has succeeded in catching a bad guy before his bad guy plans could be realized. It'll likely take them another week to come up with a good "bad-guy plan" scenario, like nuking Disney World, if they don't just invoke "Classified" instead.
In other words, its a large crock o'crap spread thickly in hopes of fooling all the people one more time into believing that The Fed is the Good Guy with naught more on its mind than your well being. Sadly, it will work far better than it should. It always does. Collectively we prefer the pretty lie over the ugly truth every time.
The surveillance of everyone on earth has but one real purpose; to steal business plans, inventions and ideas, in order to make it easier for American Corporations to make more money and to eliminate their competition. Period.
All the rest is politalk.
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Snoozers are losers
Well, its about time somebody finally realized that YOU the People, are the "enemy of the state".
The corporate-owned federal Government has been waging a war against its people for a decade or more and the very people its been attacking and destroying, are the folks PAYING for the war effort with their tax dollars.
Maybe now the American Puplic will begin thinking about defending itself against this monstrous entity that has invaded and conquered their government and their nation.
Somehow though, I doubt even such a blatant example as this will manage to wake "We the People" = "Enemy of the State" from its beer and TV induced stupor.
To enjoy the American Dream, apparently, Americans must remain asleep.
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NSA Eavesdropping
It is obvioulsy assumed that "the enemy" these whistleblowers are presumed to be aiding, is not "the American Public", of course.
However, the charges being laid against all of those who "...alert the American public..." say otherwise.
If the American Public is indeed the enemy of the corporate state currently ruling America, then these charges are indeed appropriate.
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Copyright-Troll Companies
On the post: Jonathan Coulton Destroys The Rationale Behind The Megaupload Seizure With A Single Tweet; Follows Up With Epic Blog Post
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"you don't just walk into a record store and grab some CDs off the shelf and walk out because you think you should be able to. unless you do do that kind of thing. which would make you a thief."
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Nice try. That's a false argument and I assume you know it.
If you steal something, that something is gone.
Others cannot have access to it because you took it away.
Unless and until the copying of a thing literally removes that thing from circulation for everyone else, it cannot be considered and should not be called theft.
Those who use this kind of false, emotion-laden terminology show only that their goal is misinformation - making everything else they say immediately suspect.
Copying is, at worst, an infringement, entirely because of copyright laws, and in no way harms or disturbs the thing that was copied.
Whether one considers copying to be morally correct or not, copying is simply not theft, regardless of how many laws try and paint it that way.
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Re: Re: Recovering lost incomes due to Piracy
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"Unfortunately or fortunately this is pure BS and ignorance. P2P software is used legitimately by most folks. There is no such thing as software designed for piracy."
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So, did you watch the video I posted the link to?
Didn't think you would. :)
This issue is not about people using the software legitimately or illegitimately. Its about the software's intended usage - to download copyright material without paying the original creator of that material.
This is the purpose the software was developed for and the people who developed it and promoted it and distributed it to the world are the same people who are today trying to push SOPA and PIPA into law. This is the issue. The video proves this beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The Piracy Problem is a sham, created to force lawmakers into putting content-control legislation into law that would give the creators of the Piracy Problem full control of all content on the web.
SOPA and PIPA have nothing at all to do with stopping Piracy and everything to do with taking over control of all content on the internet.
The internet has shown itself to be an outstanding tool in the fight against the mega-wealthy forces of repression and corruption and those forces have decided that enough is enough and are planning to remove that tool from public hands. This is happening world-wide, not just in America. Similar legislation, all of it written by the entertainment industry, is being introduced quietly to governments all over the globe.
So, you're perfectly within your rights to remain as unaware of the real situation as you like, but please realize that by doing so, you become a part of the problem.
Know your enemy.
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Who created the P2P software
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc
It would be nice if some of you spread this around as its painfully obvious that this information is not a part of public knowledge any more.
Once the public is made aware of the true criminals in this affair, those who feel they have lost income due to P2P will know who to seek redress and reparation from.
Enough attempted law suits against Disney, Microsoft and the rest and perhaps the delinquent federal government might actually do its job and start investigating these huge criminal corporations.
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Recovering lost incomes due to Piracy
The companies that wrote SOPA and PIPA are the same companies that created, promoted and distributed all the P2P software on their own and associated websites for a decade. Disney, Time Warner, Microsoft and their associates in the Entertainment Industry created the Piracy Problem specifically so that they could convince legislators that a piracy problem existed and get their pet content-control laws enacted.
SOPA and PIPA and other identical acts now being initiated in a variety of countries around the world, were designed by corporate think-tanks, to turn the control of all content on the web over to the entertainment industry and their associated friends.
By law, those who created, distributed and promoted software for the purpose of downloading copyright material, are responsible for any criminal use of that software.
If you want to sue someone for stealing your intellectual property, art works, music, stories and programs, start with the companies that made piracy possible, who created the means and the desire to download copyright material and started the entire process, just to screw everyone out of another freedom the corporate fascists disagree with. Freedom of content on the web.
Know your enemy, or continue to strike out at shadows.
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