thank you for calmly and rationally stating what i was going to rant and foam at the mouth about:
in short, 'your' (sic) gummint LIES to us ALL THE TIME...
whether it is 'clever' technical dissembling, as we are seeing Professional examples of on a daily basis, simply gross exaggerations that have no meaning (the whole basis for the war on some drugs and the GWOT), or -as is MOST often the case- the HUGE lies of omissions which do not discuss reality, but impose false narratives on us, they lie...
they lie about lying, they lie about lying about lying, they lie about what is a lie, they lie out of habit...
our country is both broke and broken, and the tools and fools in power ain't going to fix it, because it serves their puppetmasters ends to be broke and broken...
only one way it will be fixed...
ain't gonna be pretty...
Re: Re: Re: Hmm, you hand a stick to "censors" when use their content.
anon, i believe you are richtig about this...
i *used* to be a real PITA, goody-two-shoes about copyright and pirating software, used to hector the companies i worked for about using unlicensed software, etc...
*NOW* ? ? ?
since the whole schmear has been TOTALLY slanted to the benefit of uber-korporations, AND -as you say- they ARE trying to eliminate -or prevent, in other countries- the consideration of 'fair use' in any way, shape, or form, i have ZERO RESPECT for THEIR use/definition of copyrights, etc...
in short, fuck'em: they don't respect us and our valid uses of OUR CULTURE; okay, i don't respect you and your captured laws...
i don't pirate myself, but i no longer have any beef against any one who does, whether 'principled' or not, i simply don't care: The They care not one whit about being principled, so they will get the same back at them...
the fact remains, the power equation is VASTLY unbalanced such that The They have all the 'rights' and 'laws' on their side, and we get the shit end of the stick, no matter 'fair use' or not...
our gummint is PREDICATED upon NOT depending upon 'great men' (or women), but a SYSTEM of governance which -when FOLLOWED- could offer a fair amount of self-correction (checks and balances), self-inspection (transparency); as well as correction and inspection from the *OUTSIDE* (voting, oversight by media proxies, etc), which has completely failed...
all the parties involved, the branches of gummint, media, military-industrial complex, etc, are overwhelmingly influenced -if not owned by- huge corporate entities which have more rights than mere people...
the system has been broken and corrupted...
the perps have control of the gummint, and have dismantled the means of accountability, and changed the laws making their illegal/immoral acts allowable (if not admirable); and the lives of us 99% have become criminalized...
we've become rats backed into an inescapable corner of a maze of secret laws and kafkaesque bureaucracy...
but IF 'we' traded away every single freedom, WE wouldn't be safer (um, that really isn't important to the puppetmasters); but certain uber klasses think *they* would be safer in a scare-mongered, locked-down, full-surveillance society...
and we know which gets priority: the whims of the 1%, or the needs of the 99%...
we know...
IF you are not free to fuck up, you are not 'free'...
along with eternal vigilance, that is the price of true freedom, not some fascistic, perversion of freedom made 'safe' that this neo world order is trying to emplace...
(and -yes- spellbot, i am insisting that emplace is a valid word...* and if it isn't, i just neologized a good one... and -yes- i insist neologized is a real word too... i admit i made up spellbot, but that should be a real word too... in fact, it is now...)
* what's that ? oh, thank you merriam-webster for telling me emplace is a valid word...
damn stupid spellbots...
i think we all should remind ourselves that there was an ongoing tussle between -at least- two schools of thought when the constitution was aborning...
1. that *of course* all men (some exceptions apply) are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, blah, blah, blah; and it wasn't necessary -because it was 'self-evident'- to enumerate ALL the natural rights all men had vested in them by the act of being born...
(sort of like how copyright automatically adheres upon creation in a fixed medium; so your 'natural/all rights' are engendered upon birth)
2. and another faction that thought: unless we explicitly spell them out, and make the observing and defense of these bedrock rights the overarching priority of ALL the branches of government, despots and tyrannical majorities WILL (not 'might') impinge upon -if not repudiate- those 'natural rights'...
these days, there's no bare minimum rights for me and thee...
he can stay at my house -or probably at any of many billions across the planet- for as long as he likes...
no charge...
well, he would have to take out the trash and do the dishes every once in a while...
HE has more trust and goodwill from me than ALL the politicians in the world put together...
the people know who the real patriots are, and they aren't in washingtoon...
...we'd have Joe/Jane Concealed Carry Teacher, or Joe Concerned Bystander Citizen who saw this going down and didn't realize it was a drill, start ventilating the (not so) fake terrorists'...
bet THAT scenario is about 100 times more likely to occur than a real terrorist attack from brown-skinned natives...
Re: Re: Appealing To Control Freaks' Many Issues With Some Chasing Demons Distracts From Monopoly Priviatization And GMO's, Which Are Hurting Kids
1. wally, maybe *YOU* have pissed your panties, and want Big Daddy to make ALL the bad men go away (hint: there will be nobody left), but some of us put on our big boy undies a long time ago, and realize that to live is to risk death...
2. great reasoning: no matter how INFINITESIMAL the chance, we should drill on it, right ? so we'll have alien invasion drills, and zombie drills, and cane toad licking drills, and meteorite drills, and, et cetera ad infinitum ad nauseum 'drills' ? ? ?
it would be easier if people just grew a pair...
you are about 8-10 times more likely to be killed by officer friendly than you are any terrorists... get a clue...
that is EXACTLY what they ALL are SUPPOSED to do and ALL took an oath to do; but IF they did, Empire would be frozen by inaction because they would be forestalled from doing their evil by MORAL individuals doing their DUTY...
The They (tm) have purposefully stretched, weakened, and gamed the system such that there are ZERO checks on power, ZERO means for whistleblowers to be effective, and ZERO recourse by us 99%...
and another authoritarian is outed...
oh, urine idjit, by the way...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
...are the enemies of the People, and who tried to do their duty to the constitution; we know...
feinstein, lind, obama, etc, are NOT WELCOME in my house, in fact (not that it is likely), but those TRAITORS better not ever cross my path...
Manning, Snowden, Kiriakou, Brown, etc, etc, etc, ARE ALL WELCOME at my house; if i had half a nut left, i would start marching on washington to FREE THE HEROES, and jail the zeroes...
dog damn i hate 'my' (sic) gummint: i'm done with them, they are NOT representative to us 99% in any way, shape, or form... i'm done voting, i'm done pretending they represent us, i'm done with their lies, hypocrisy and bullshit, i owe these monstrous con artists NO allegiance...
mark this day: the official end of the american experiment gone wrong...
indeed, it appears the only 'solution' (the final one?), is to give up all our freedoms, then The They (tm) won't have anything left to fear from us li'l peeps...
that is it in a nutshell...
in fact, that is what the situation is 90% of the time: they KNOW the 'bad shit' that is going down, it is just THEIR bad shit, so it don't stink, and they won't acknowledge it...
just like YOU KNOW hypocritical slimeballs like feinstein, king, etc HAVE leaked all kinds of shit that would get you and i a nice room at the graybar hotel, but is just called wednesday in their little protected world...
dog damn i hate those bastards...
it ISN'T just an 'honest difference of opinion', they are complicit in destroying OUR democracy...
...that is about the only thing which 'explains' their weird behavior: smarter-than-you ploys, empty threats and promises, doubling down on idiocy, scheming and plotting too-clever-by-half shit that bites them in the ass, etc, etc, etc...
looks like manic cokehead behavior to me...
dog damn, its parasites like this that give drugs a bad name...
1. why do i suspect your respect for 'the rule of law' only applies to the heroic actions of Bradley Manning, but NOT the criminal actions of the administration and leaders who have seen his is tortured for these years held in custody ?
2. HE WAS (as ALL mercenaries, oops, Glorious Military Heroes are) charged with UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION and swore an oath to do so; he was about THE ONLY ONE to actually do so, all the rest have FAILED TO UPHOLD THEIR OATH...
including saint obama, feinstein (R-NSA), hayden, alexander, etc...
3. of course, you conveniently overlook the fact that The System is BROKEN, and he was left with no choice if he was to obey the dictates of his conscience AND HIS OFFICIAL CHARGE TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, NOT the illegal actions of his 'superiors' (who he is superior to in EVERY WAY)...
i really can't help but hate on a POS like yourself...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
...about how not is it 'only too human' to abuse such secretive powers when there is essentially ZERO accountability, oversight, or repercussions, but how it comes down to 'faith-based' government, and 'trusting' these paragons of virtue...
*snort*
OUR WHOLE SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE is predicated on NOT trusting fallible individuals, but instituting a PUBLIC system which oversees their actions TRANSPARENTLY...
we have lost our way in following those principles...
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Re:
in short, 'your' (sic) gummint LIES to us ALL THE TIME...
whether it is 'clever' technical dissembling, as we are seeing Professional examples of on a daily basis, simply gross exaggerations that have no meaning (the whole basis for the war on some drugs and the GWOT), or -as is MOST often the case- the HUGE lies of omissions which do not discuss reality, but impose false narratives on us, they lie...
they lie about lying, they lie about lying about lying, they lie about what is a lie, they lie out of habit...
our country is both broke and broken, and the tools and fools in power ain't going to fix it, because it serves their puppetmasters ends to be broke and broken...
only one way it will be fixed...
ain't gonna be pretty...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Larry Lessig Threatened With Copyright Infringement Over Clear Fair Use; Decides To Fight Back
Re: Re: Re: Hmm, you hand a stick to "censors" when use their content.
i *used* to be a real PITA, goody-two-shoes about copyright and pirating software, used to hector the companies i worked for about using unlicensed software, etc...
*NOW* ? ? ?
since the whole schmear has been TOTALLY slanted to the benefit of uber-korporations, AND -as you say- they ARE trying to eliminate -or prevent, in other countries- the consideration of 'fair use' in any way, shape, or form, i have ZERO RESPECT for THEIR use/definition of copyrights, etc...
in short, fuck'em: they don't respect us and our valid uses of OUR CULTURE; okay, i don't respect you and your captured laws...
i don't pirate myself, but i no longer have any beef against any one who does, whether 'principled' or not, i simply don't care: The They care not one whit about being principled, so they will get the same back at them...
the fact remains, the power equation is VASTLY unbalanced such that The They have all the 'rights' and 'laws' on their side, and we get the shit end of the stick, no matter 'fair use' or not...
fuck'em all, that is the response they deserve...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Vocal NSA Critic Has Dinner With NSA Boss, Explains To Him That Abuses Are Inevitable
Re:
our gummint is PREDICATED upon NOT depending upon 'great men' (or women), but a SYSTEM of governance which -when FOLLOWED- could offer a fair amount of self-correction (checks and balances), self-inspection (transparency); as well as correction and inspection from the *OUTSIDE* (voting, oversight by media proxies, etc), which has completely failed...
all the parties involved, the branches of gummint, media, military-industrial complex, etc, are overwhelmingly influenced -if not owned by- huge corporate entities which have more rights than mere people...
the system has been broken and corrupted...
the perps have control of the gummint, and have dismantled the means of accountability, and changed the laws making their illegal/immoral acts allowable (if not admirable); and the lives of us 99% have become criminalized...
we've become rats backed into an inescapable corner of a maze of secret laws and kafkaesque bureaucracy...
will the rats bite back ? ? ?
.
On the post: Vocal NSA Critic Has Dinner With NSA Boss, Explains To Him That Abuses Are Inevitable
Re: Re:
but IF 'we' traded away every single freedom, WE wouldn't be safer (um, that really isn't important to the puppetmasters); but certain uber klasses think *they* would be safer in a scare-mongered, locked-down, full-surveillance society...
and we know which gets priority: the whims of the 1%, or the needs of the 99%...
we know...
On the post: Vocal NSA Critic Has Dinner With NSA Boss, Explains To Him That Abuses Are Inevitable
Re: Re: "never again" is unrealistic and naive
here is the essential point:
IF you are 'free', you are free to fuck up...
IF you are not free to fuck up, you are not 'free'...
along with eternal vigilance, that is the price of true freedom, not some fascistic, perversion of freedom made 'safe' that this neo world order is trying to emplace...
(and -yes- spellbot, i am insisting that emplace is a valid word...* and if it isn't, i just neologized a good one... and -yes- i insist neologized is a real word too... i admit i made up spellbot, but that should be a real word too... in fact, it is now...)
* what's that ? oh, thank you merriam-webster for telling me emplace is a valid word...
damn stupid spellbots...
On the post: Vocal NSA Critic Has Dinner With NSA Boss, Explains To Him That Abuses Are Inevitable
Re: Re: Re:
i think we all should remind ourselves that there was an ongoing tussle between -at least- two schools of thought when the constitution was aborning...
1. that *of course* all men (some exceptions apply) are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, blah, blah, blah; and it wasn't necessary -because it was 'self-evident'- to enumerate ALL the natural rights all men had vested in them by the act of being born...
(sort of like how copyright automatically adheres upon creation in a fixed medium; so your 'natural/all rights' are engendered upon birth)
2. and another faction that thought: unless we explicitly spell them out, and make the observing and defense of these bedrock rights the overarching priority of ALL the branches of government, despots and tyrannical majorities WILL (not 'might') impinge upon -if not repudiate- those 'natural rights'...
these days, there's no bare minimum rights for me and thee...
secret laws, secret charges, secret judges, secret courts, secret verdicts, secret non-verdicts, secret jails, secret prisoners, secret torture...
um, didn't we determine these actions were -like- double plus bad, in -like- the dark ages ? ? ?
On the post: Vocal NSA Critic Has Dinner With NSA Boss, Explains To Him That Abuses Are Inevitable
Re: Re:
otherwise, they are ALL complicit in violating one of our more sacrosanct rights...
hmmm...
On the post: The Good News On The Manning Verdict? He Could Be Eligible For Parole In A Little Over Eight Years
Re:
no charge...
well, he would have to take out the trash and do the dishes every once in a while...
HE has more trust and goodwill from me than ALL the politicians in the world put together...
the people know who the real patriots are, and they aren't in washingtoon...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Signs Of The Times: Ohio School Hosts 'Counter-Terrorism' Bus Hijacking Drill
*and* if the lock-and-load crowd had their way...
bet THAT scenario is about 100 times more likely to occur than a real terrorist attack from brown-skinned natives...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Signs Of The Times: Ohio School Hosts 'Counter-Terrorism' Bus Hijacking Drill
Re: Re: Appealing To Control Freaks' Many Issues With Some Chasing Demons Distracts From Monopoly Priviatization And GMO's, Which Are Hurting Kids
2. great reasoning: no matter how INFINITESIMAL the chance, we should drill on it, right ? so we'll have alien invasion drills, and zombie drills, and cane toad licking drills, and meteorite drills, and, et cetera ad infinitum ad nauseum 'drills' ? ? ?
it would be easier if people just grew a pair...
you are about 8-10 times more likely to be killed by officer friendly than you are any terrorists... get a clue...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Signs Of The Times: Ohio School Hosts 'Counter-Terrorism' Bus Hijacking Drill
Re: SWAT toys
On the post: Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years
Re:
The They (tm) have purposefully stretched, weakened, and gamed the system such that there are ZERO checks on power, ZERO means for whistleblowers to be effective, and ZERO recourse by us 99%...
and another authoritarian is outed...
oh, urine idjit, by the way...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
On the post: Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years
we know who...
feinstein, lind, obama, etc, are NOT WELCOME in my house, in fact (not that it is likely), but those TRAITORS better not ever cross my path...
Manning, Snowden, Kiriakou, Brown, etc, etc, etc, ARE ALL WELCOME at my house; if i had half a nut left, i would start marching on washington to FREE THE HEROES, and jail the zeroes...
dog damn i hate 'my' (sic) gummint: i'm done with them, they are NOT representative to us 99% in any way, shape, or form... i'm done voting, i'm done pretending they represent us, i'm done with their lies, hypocrisy and bullshit, i owe these monstrous con artists NO allegiance...
mark this day: the official end of the american experiment gone wrong...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: US Official Admits That UK Detention Of Glenn Greenwald's Partner Was 'To Send A Message'
if the spooks woke up...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Blatant Intimidation: Glenn Greenwald's Partner Detained At Heathrow Under Terrorism Law, All His Electronics Seized
Re:
dog damn i hates me some politicians...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Blatant Intimidation: Glenn Greenwald's Partner Detained At Heathrow Under Terrorism Law, All His Electronics Seized
Re: Re:
On the post: How Could Dianne Feinstein Not Have Seen The Report Laying Out NSA Abuses?
Re: Re: Right hand / left hand... whatever...
in fact, that is what the situation is 90% of the time: they KNOW the 'bad shit' that is going down, it is just THEIR bad shit, so it don't stink, and they won't acknowledge it...
just like YOU KNOW hypocritical slimeballs like feinstein, king, etc HAVE leaked all kinds of shit that would get you and i a nice room at the graybar hotel, but is just called wednesday in their little protected world...
dog damn i hate those bastards...
it ISN'T just an 'honest difference of opinion', they are complicit in destroying OUR democracy...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Comcast Confirms That Steele-Hansmeier Controlled IP Address Used To Seed Content
they have gotta be coked up...
looks like manic cokehead behavior to me...
dog damn, its parasites like this that give drugs a bad name...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
On the post: Bradley Manning Apologizes For The Harm Everyone Admits He Didn't Actually Cause
Re: to "darrel"...
2. HE WAS (as ALL mercenaries, oops, Glorious Military Heroes are) charged with UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION and swore an oath to do so; he was about THE ONLY ONE to actually do so, all the rest have FAILED TO UPHOLD THEIR OATH...
including saint obama, feinstein (R-NSA), hayden, alexander, etc...
3. of course, you conveniently overlook the fact that The System is BROKEN, and he was left with no choice if he was to obey the dictates of his conscience AND HIS OFFICIAL CHARGE TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION, NOT the illegal actions of his 'superiors' (who he is superior to in EVERY WAY)...
i really can't help but hate on a POS like yourself...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
art guerrilla at windstream dot net
eof
On the post: Detroit Police Commander Emails Female Officers' Measurements To Entire Police Force
yes, very excellent point...
*snort*
OUR WHOLE SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE is predicated on NOT trusting fallible individuals, but instituting a PUBLIC system which oversees their actions TRANSPARENTLY...
we have lost our way in following those principles...
art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof
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