as others say below, not sure why the redskins get piled on while -say- the FS *ptui* U seminoles get a free pass; 'cause that tomahawk chant is, like, so-o-o-o super respectful of indian heritage... *snort* oh, wait a minute, they bribed enough uncle tom tom's to get a special dispensation... my mistake...
also agree about team name changes, which often border on the ludicrous: new orleans jazz changing to the UTAH jazz when they moved ? ? ? UTAH, "JAZZ" ? c'mon... 'yeah, me and martha are going to Salt Lake Jazz Fest with the Hot Mormon Quintet headlining, its where everyone who loves jazz goes...'
just one more reason why sports teams should be locally owned by the citizens, like green bay... which is just one more reason why the sports kingpins will NEVER let that happen again...
yep, thought the 'step-down' gimmick was stupid for a lot of reasons, the least of which is it would provide some excuse for the dem rats to exclude him... (for example: IF we great unwashed *DID* elect a man running on such reform issues, AND we thought he could achieve them, WHY wouldn't we REALLY want him as a 'full-time' president to confront ALL the other issues similarly ? ? ?)
otherwise, you only had to remember a *little* bit of his story to see how nader, jackson (shirley and jesse and scoop) et al have been treated by the dem rats (and rethugs) in unfairly, illegally excluding various qualified candidates... funny how that works: lamestream candidates whose mom is not going to vote for them, get in the debates; 'outsiders', semi-progressives, etc who meet ALL the criteria, get the door slammed in their face... huh, is there a pattern there ? ? ? this whole bullshit of how the dem rats and rethugs have control of the 'debates' is corrupt from the get-go...
@ kehvan 1. HE HAS explicitly asked for a trial, with only a couple reasonable, humane, conditions: no torture, no death penalty... Empire would offer no such minimal assurances... 2. '...faith in the amerikan public to acquit him.' um, did you just finish 6th grade civics class and actually BELIEVED that bullshit ? not to mention, just HOW do the 'merikan people 'acquit' him ? what sort of insane palaver is that ? do you still hum along to 'how a bill becomes law', and think that bears even a shadow of a semblance to the reality of sausage/law making ? ? ? 3. i'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it seems inescapable that urine idjit, and a cruel dude, to boot...
forget about the insane bits: i don't get the fine for a year's commercial subscription for the -supposed- circumvention on ONE article, ONE time; why isn't that 'access' fine/fee pro-rated for -say- one day, instead of a whole year ? ? ? ...*and*/or, does that now mean they get a year's access to these butthurt blacklocker peep's 'stuff' ? ? ?
oh, and The Law's an ass...
...and, the last two sentences of the article's second paragraph do not parse well...
"Remember, like all other times, it has to get bad enough before people get tired of it and work to improve it."
naw, i saw on a real movie where The They (tm) just have to kill one little white girl in a mask, and everyone goes all apeshit and shit...
"Had it not been for that huge spanse of water, the USA may have never won its fight for freedom."
yeah-ah-h-no... had it not been for the huge stravagance (sic) of the froggies, we would still be wearing powdered wigs and drinking warm stout... ...and we are STILL fighting for our freedoms; this time from enemies domestic, not foreign...
"Governments are VERY QUICK to act on civilian unrest. The benefit is now with technology, the population could rise up in a near instant as well... which should explain to you why the government is fight tooth and nail to take over the internet in its veritably entirety."
the critical mass, the tipping point, the great convocation of the 99% is coming, it is inevitable... and, of course, all psycho-his-story-like, the more The They (tm) tighten the grip of their velvet-gloved iron-fist, the more they hasten The Fall...
"The decline in sales of recorded music could just as easily be explained by the changes in entertainment consumption;..."
yeppers, exactly my situation... *used to* buy -not a ton of music- but some CD's regularly; hardly EVER buy any anymore (some $5 bargain bin ones every once in a while)...
have NEVER (knowingly, well, there's the rub, ain't it?) pirated music, period (HOWEVER, getting to the point where it is impossible to justify NOT pirating due to the greedtard actions of the MAFIAA types)...
now ? i either listen to the moldy oldies i have in my collection, download music from inertnet archive, listen to utube vids, etc, or inertnet radio...
a LOT of my NON-buying decisions of music are based simply on the fact that i DESPISE the 'recording industry' (hint: 'recording industry' NOT equal to 'musicians') and their greedy overreaching and destruction of OUR culture... fuck'em...
as you have so ably put it, there is no such thing as 'cyber violence' (unless it is in shoot-em-up online games)...
in fact, i will go one step further and say there is no such thing as 'hate crimes'...
there is crime, there is hate, they are not the same thing... i can hit you over the head and take your wallet without 'hating' you (as the gummint does every day); i can 'hate' you without committing a crime...
i will even go so far as to say that making 'hate' a 'crime' is doing the work of the authoritarians wanting complete control of everyone everywhere: stupid libtards (mostly) ARE DOING THE HEAVY LIFTING of Empire in enforcing such an insane regime...
further, i don't think they care, they want to eliminate 'hate' and the means don't matter to them... of course, they are total blithering idiots that they don't understand that 'eliminating' 'hate' is EQUAL TO eliminating freedom...
again, freedom means the freedom to be wrong, otherwise you are not really free, are you ? ? ?
1. @ that one guy: enjoyed and mostly agreed with many of your comments recently, you almost always make good sense with good comments, thank you...
2. i have been unable to overcome the cognitive disconnect between believing the propaganda i have been force-fed my whole life of how 'merika is the bestest and greatest and most fairest and freeest and most law-abiding country in the universe EVAH ! ! ! ...*AND*, that we have sekret laws with sekret courts with sekret interepretions and sekret jails filled with sekret prisoners with sekret sentences ...
(never mind sekret 'executive signing orders', never mind MURDERING (mostly) brown people the world over BASED ON OUR SAY SO, never mind ignoring our own laws and international laws, and never mind a two-tiered (in)justice system, etc, AD INFINITUM...)
it would *seem* to me -being a rational being- that there is one way to find out if they have any standing: INVESTIGATE just WHAT these spooks ARE ACTUALLY sucking up (what part of 'collect it all' does the judge not get ?) to find out if they have 'standing'...
of course, that is begging the question when you ask the foxes guarding the henhouse if they have been nicking any chickens, aint' it ? ? ?
and right-that-there is the nub: we are DEPENDENT upon the scumbags in gummint to tell us if they have been doing scumbag things: WE HAVE ZERO INDEPENDENT, UNBIASED, HONEST OVERSIGHT... less than zero...
just throwing it out to see if it could save me (and others) a bunch of googling: does a VPN have any influence or deleterious issues with having to also use a service like no-ip to generate a static IP address to be used with web controled security cameras, etc ? ? ? obvious i don't know about the technical aspects, just know i need the no-ip svc to make my web-based stuff accessible, and didn't know how a VPN has any significant interaction with that layer of re-direction as well...
Re: The privacy of suspects are now something to protect?
*ouch* um, pretty sure these 'rules', etc don't work both ways, they never do, do they ? ? ?
besides, there are couple of inconsistencies in this op/edicle:
"While the concerns about the impact on the young man may be valid, care was taken to protect his identity. In addition, the suicide attempt took place at a public parking garage, where any number of people might have ID'ed the young man."
um, nope, not letting this pass: you are using the specious 'reasoning' Empire woudl use in justifying such re-broadcasting of a person's MOST traumatic, horrific, moment(s) of their lives; that is, that since it is 'public', it ain't private... BUT, you/we/others have argued it is NOT that it is public, but that it is collected, stored, collated, associated, coordinated, and culminates in police-state surveillance, per-i-od... that is NOT the same as a handful of other citizens perhaps ID'ing the kid, and telling their neighbors ... nope, having a video made of your suicide attempt, having a video made of your suicide attempt vaingloriously RE-BROADCAST by the kops (while spraining an arm clapping themselves on the back), seems kind of slimy to me...
setting aside your contentious premise that *of course* we want to see 'good' police work video; um, not really, i don't want to see *ANY* police videos; just like i'm not really interested in cat videos, or any of a million other 'genres' i don't care about (excepting the few i do)...
but i -unfortunately- see too many 'bad' police videos, because THERE ARE SO MANY 'bad' police videos...
Re: That's not a feature, that's a bug! (in the eyes of the city)
exactly that, *just* like the scams perpetrated by the LEO gangs EVERYWHERE, but given a little bit of a spotlight in ferguson, ak: the prison-industrial system must be fed, and how better to feed it than put in place a kafkaesque system where a $20 jaywalking ticket (probably unnecessary in the first place, and almost certainly given to poor/browner people in far greater numbers than others), gets blown up into a couple hundred, a couple thousand, and then you JAIL THEM for not paying these unconscionable 'fees'...
will The They (tm) actually have to take your fillings out in payment, and make lampshades of your skin before you figure out 'our' (sic) gummint doesn't give a shit about 99% of us ? ? ?
WE ARE SHEEPLE TO BE FLEECED so the 1% can buy that second aspen condo, etc...
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vastly better way to prevent abuse is get rid of billionaires. Tax them out of existence. Easy to do, popular, guaranteed to work, and would have good effects every way.
methinks you underestimate the synergy and evolution which make many/most inventions essentially inevitable... they rarely arise spontaneously out of nothing, there are a legion of others working on the same problem, some of them taking this tack, some that... *someone* has to be 'first to file' (both literally (as in literally) and figuratively (figuratively still means figuratively, right ?)...
you are assuming the 'open source' hive mind would know... they may very well not, for all kinds of reasons...
moles, social engineering, bribery, threats, or other means of injecting the alphabet spook's code could/would be used... how would 99.999% of have any knowledge of such sophisticated attacks ? ? ?
if you paid attention, it wasn't mostly the DRM they were writing about, it was -i thought validly- predicated on the epublishers have NOT advanced the ebook MEDIA in any significant way, merely translated the same dead-tree layout to screen...
why *not* more hyperlinkage (is it asking too much that it could be turned on/off ?) that serves as educational annotation for all writings ? why *not* better searching, etc ? why *not* more enhanced editions where 'appropriate' ghraphics/videos/etc are added to the mix ?
c'mon, you know why: they have to pay pennies for 'translating' dead trees to some fixed electronic media format; they would have to pay dollars to develop some improvements and new dynamic formats, etc...
AND -as is so often the case- The They PREVENT others who are MORE than happy and willing to develop dead formats and make them live again; but the spiteful, greedy, selfish pricks lock all that shit down, legal-wise, don't they ?
sorry, those are NO KIND of humane human beans, i don't care how much lipstick you put on that pig... horrendous, sociopathic people who shit on society...
the psychopathic 1% must go ! ! ! those pukes are bombing hospitals with our taxes, in our name... will no one ask our country: "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
very commendable, and it would be nice if all of us could react in such a manner; but -practically speaking- who among us can afford -both monetarily and otherwise- to resist the Eye of Sauron when he fixes his gaze upon us ? ? ?
especially when the stakes are they can see our grandkids pictures, or our stupid emails of no import, etc... i understand defending those rights on principle, but i am not carrying around manning/snowden level type docs that it is directly 'worth' going to jail for an unknown amount of time for said principle...
AND, once you stand on principle, the judge doesn't listen to you/your lawyer's 100% spot-on constitutional arguments, NO ONE in the (korporate kontrolled) media gives a shit, a few marginal websites who still believe in the constitution take up your cause, and you are languishing in some super max hell hole, how nice will it be to cozy up to your principles in your isolation cell ? ? ?
AND, the feds will use all their influence to fuck up your life from alpha to omega, and that is BEFORE they railroad your conviction...
1. good point about the pension, just one of the ways shitheel neokons and neolibtards are united in actively destroying the public commons and public services...
2. *however*, that does not obviate the factoid that the usps has been spying for unka sammie for forever... if you think : "Prior to 2001, it only collected mail data on request.", you are living in cloud-cuckooland... under hoover they used to -yes- hoover up all kinds of mail, open it up, etc... they were implicated in all manner of dirty tricks campaigns by j edna, etc...
3. similarly, you may have noticed with some of the manning/snowden revelations, that the sea eye ehh and all the rest of the alphabet spooks, have intercept programs to take packages and compromise computers, etc being shipped to various and sundry targets... i am absolutely certain they followed the constitution on each and every one of those unconstitutional search and seizures... pretty sure... maybe... a couple... okay, some body once *thought* of following the constitution... possibly...
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*snort*
oh, wait a minute, they bribed enough uncle tom tom's to get a special dispensation... my mistake...
also agree about team name changes, which often border on the ludicrous: new orleans jazz changing to the UTAH jazz when they moved ? ? ? UTAH, "JAZZ" ? c'mon...
'yeah, me and martha are going to Salt Lake Jazz Fest with the Hot Mormon Quintet headlining, its where everyone who loves jazz goes...'
just one more reason why sports teams should be locally owned by the citizens, like green bay... which is just one more reason why the sports kingpins will NEVER let that happen again...
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technically...
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(for example: IF we great unwashed *DID* elect a man running on such reform issues, AND we thought he could achieve them, WHY wouldn't we REALLY want him as a 'full-time' president to confront ALL the other issues similarly ? ? ?)
otherwise, you only had to remember a *little* bit of his story to see how nader, jackson (shirley and jesse and scoop) et al have been treated by the dem rats (and rethugs) in unfairly, illegally excluding various qualified candidates...
funny how that works: lamestream candidates whose mom is not going to vote for them, get in the debates; 'outsiders', semi-progressives, etc who meet ALL the criteria, get the door slammed in their face...
huh, is there a pattern there ? ? ?
this whole bullshit of how the dem rats and rethugs have control of the 'debates' is corrupt from the get-go...
On the post: Documents Pried Out Of DOJ's Hands Confirm Stingray Devices Can Be Used To Intercept Communications
Re: Re: Re: Well of course
i believe these extra-constitutional intrusions by the donut eaters classify as hacking by anyone but Empire's definition...
AND, i have ZERO doubt that if they have the capability of snorfling up everything AND the conversations themselves, they will do so...
why not ? ? ? there is ZERO effective oversight...
there is an asymptotically close to ZERO chance you will get caught...
who says krime don't pay ? ? ?
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1. HE HAS explicitly asked for a trial, with only a couple reasonable, humane, conditions: no torture, no death penalty...
Empire would offer no such minimal assurances...
2. '...faith in the amerikan public to acquit him.' um, did you just finish 6th grade civics class and actually BELIEVED that bullshit ? not to mention, just HOW do the 'merikan people 'acquit' him ? what sort of insane palaver is that ?
do you still hum along to 'how a bill becomes law', and think that bears even a shadow of a semblance to the reality of sausage/law making ? ? ?
3. i'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it seems inescapable that urine idjit, and a cruel dude, to boot...
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...*and*/or, does that now mean they get a year's access to these butthurt blacklocker peep's 'stuff' ? ? ?
oh, and The Law's an ass...
...and, the last two sentences of the article's second paragraph do not parse well...
On the post: The IRS Has A Stingray As Well Because Of Course It Does
Re: Re: Re: Re:
naw, i saw on a real movie where The They (tm) just have to kill one little white girl in a mask, and everyone goes all apeshit and shit...
"Had it not been for that huge spanse of water, the USA may have never won its fight for freedom."
yeah-ah-h-no...
had it not been for the huge stravagance (sic) of the froggies, we would still be wearing powdered wigs and drinking warm stout...
...and we are STILL fighting for our freedoms; this time from enemies domestic, not foreign...
"Governments are VERY QUICK to act on civilian unrest. The benefit is now with technology, the population could rise up in a near instant as well... which should explain to you why the government is fight tooth and nail to take over the internet in its veritably entirety."
the critical mass, the tipping point, the great convocation of the 99% is coming, it is inevitable... and, of course, all psycho-his-story-like, the more The They (tm) tighten the grip of their velvet-gloved iron-fist, the more they hasten The Fall...
may you live in interesting times, indeed...
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
yeppers, exactly my situation...
*used to* buy -not a ton of music- but some CD's regularly; hardly EVER buy any anymore (some $5 bargain bin ones every once in a while)...
have NEVER (knowingly, well, there's the rub, ain't it?) pirated music, period (HOWEVER, getting to the point where it is impossible to justify NOT pirating due to the greedtard actions of the MAFIAA types)...
now ? i either listen to the moldy oldies i have in my collection, download music from inertnet archive, listen to utube vids, etc, or inertnet radio...
a LOT of my NON-buying decisions of music are based simply on the fact that i DESPISE the 'recording industry' (hint: 'recording industry' NOT equal to 'musicians') and their greedy overreaching and destruction of OUR culture...
fuck'em...
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Re: Cyber violence?
in fact, i will go one step further and say there is no such thing as 'hate crimes'...
there is crime, there is hate, they are not the same thing...
i can hit you over the head and take your wallet without 'hating' you (as the gummint does every day); i can 'hate' you without committing a crime...
i will even go so far as to say that making 'hate' a 'crime' is doing the work of the authoritarians wanting complete control of everyone everywhere: stupid libtards (mostly) ARE DOING THE HEAVY LIFTING of Empire in enforcing such an insane regime...
further, i don't think they care, they want to eliminate 'hate' and the means don't matter to them... of course, they are total blithering idiots that they don't understand that 'eliminating' 'hate' is EQUAL TO eliminating freedom...
again, freedom means the freedom to be wrong, otherwise you are not really free, are you ? ? ?
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Re: Nice logic that
2. i have been unable to overcome the cognitive disconnect between believing the propaganda i have been force-fed my whole life of how 'merika is the bestest and greatest and most fairest and freeest and most law-abiding country in the universe EVAH ! ! !
...*AND*, that we have sekret laws with sekret courts with sekret interepretions and sekret jails filled with sekret prisoners with sekret sentences ...
(never mind sekret 'executive signing orders', never mind MURDERING (mostly) brown people the world over BASED ON OUR SAY SO, never mind ignoring our own laws and international laws, and never mind a two-tiered (in)justice system, etc, AD INFINITUM...)
it would *seem* to me -being a rational being- that there is one way to find out if they have any standing: INVESTIGATE just WHAT these spooks ARE ACTUALLY sucking up (what part of 'collect it all' does the judge not get ?) to find out if they have 'standing'...
of course, that is begging the question when you ask the foxes guarding the henhouse if they have been nicking any chickens, aint' it ? ? ?
and right-that-there is the nub: we are DEPENDENT upon the scumbags in gummint to tell us if they have been doing scumbag things: WE HAVE ZERO INDEPENDENT, UNBIASED, HONEST OVERSIGHT...
less than zero...
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stupid tech question about vpns
does a VPN have any influence or deleterious issues with having to also use a service like no-ip to generate a static IP address to be used with web controled security cameras, etc ? ? ?
obvious i don't know about the technical aspects, just know i need the no-ip svc to make my web-based stuff accessible, and didn't know how a VPN has any significant interaction with that layer of re-direction as well...
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Re: The privacy of suspects are now something to protect?
um, pretty sure these 'rules', etc don't work both ways, they never do, do they ? ? ?
besides, there are couple of inconsistencies in this op/edicle:
"While the concerns about the impact on the young man may be valid, care was taken to protect his identity. In addition, the suicide attempt took place at a public parking garage, where any number of people might have ID'ed the young man."
um, nope, not letting this pass: you are using the specious 'reasoning' Empire woudl use in justifying such re-broadcasting of a person's MOST traumatic, horrific, moment(s) of their lives; that is, that since it is 'public', it ain't private...
BUT, you/we/others have argued it is NOT that it is public, but that it is collected, stored, collated, associated, coordinated, and culminates in police-state surveillance, per-i-od... that is NOT the same as a handful of other citizens perhaps ID'ing the kid, and telling their neighbors ...
nope, having a video made of your suicide attempt, having a video made of your suicide attempt vaingloriously RE-BROADCAST by the kops (while spraining an arm clapping themselves on the back), seems kind of slimy to me...
setting aside your contentious premise that *of course* we want to see 'good' police work video; um, not really, i don't want to see *ANY* police videos; just like i'm not really interested in cat videos, or any of a million other 'genres' i don't care about (excepting the few i do)...
but i -unfortunately- see too many 'bad' police videos, because THERE ARE SO MANY 'bad' police videos...
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Re: That's not a feature, that's a bug! (in the eyes of the city)
the prison-industrial system must be fed, and how better to feed it than put in place a kafkaesque system where a $20 jaywalking ticket (probably unnecessary in the first place, and almost certainly given to poor/browner people in far greater numbers than others), gets blown up into a couple hundred, a couple thousand, and then you JAIL THEM for not paying these unconscionable 'fees'...
will The They (tm) actually have to take your fillings out in payment, and make lampshades of your skin before you figure out 'our' (sic) gummint doesn't give a shit about 99% of us ? ? ?
WE ARE SHEEPLE TO BE FLEECED so the 1% can buy that second aspen condo, etc...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vastly better way to prevent abuse is get rid of billionaires. Tax them out of existence. Easy to do, popular, guaranteed to work, and would have good effects every way.
they rarely arise spontaneously out of nothing, there are a legion of others working on the same problem, some of them taking this tack, some that...
*someone* has to be 'first to file' (both literally (as in literally) and figuratively (figuratively still means figuratively, right ?)...
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Re: Re: Lessons Learned
besides, i'm sure The They (tm) have learned their 'lesson', and will just find some other 'legal' means of exacting their revenge...
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Re: open-source
they may very well not, for all kinds of reasons...
moles, social engineering, bribery, threats, or other means of injecting the alphabet spook's code could/would be used...
how would 99.999% of have any knowledge of such sophisticated attacks ? ? ?
zey haf vays uf maching you sprech...
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Re: yeahhhh, no...
why *not* more hyperlinkage (is it asking too much that it could be turned on/off ?) that serves as educational annotation for all writings ? why *not* better searching, etc ? why *not* more enhanced editions where 'appropriate' ghraphics/videos/etc are added to the mix ?
c'mon, you know why: they have to pay pennies for 'translating' dead trees to some fixed electronic media format; they would have to pay dollars to develop some improvements and new dynamic formats, etc...
AND -as is so often the case- The They PREVENT others who are MORE than happy and willing to develop dead formats and make them live again; but the spiteful, greedy, selfish pricks lock all that shit down, legal-wise, don't they ?
sorry, those are NO KIND of humane human beans, i don't care how much lipstick you put on that pig... horrendous, sociopathic people who shit on society...
the psychopathic 1% must go ! ! !
those pukes are bombing hospitals with our taxes, in our name...
will no one ask our country: "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
On the post: US Intelligence Community's Cavalier Attitude Towards OPM Hack
here's unka sam's confession...
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especially when the stakes are they can see our grandkids pictures, or our stupid emails of no import, etc... i understand defending those rights on principle, but i am not carrying around manning/snowden level type docs that it is directly 'worth' going to jail for an unknown amount of time for said principle...
AND, once you stand on principle, the judge doesn't listen to you/your lawyer's 100% spot-on constitutional arguments, NO ONE in the (korporate kontrolled) media gives a shit, a few marginal websites who still believe in the constitution take up your cause, and you are languishing in some super max hell hole, how nice will it be to cozy up to your principles in your isolation cell ? ? ?
AND, the feds will use all their influence to fuck up your life from alpha to omega, and that is BEFORE they railroad your conviction...
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2. *however*, that does not obviate the factoid that the usps has been spying for unka sammie for forever...
if you think : "Prior to 2001, it only collected mail data on request.", you are living in cloud-cuckooland...
under hoover they used to -yes- hoover up all kinds of mail, open it up, etc... they were implicated in all manner of dirty tricks campaigns by j edna, etc...
3. similarly, you may have noticed with some of the manning/snowden revelations, that the sea eye ehh and all the rest of the alphabet spooks, have intercept programs to take packages and compromise computers, etc being shipped to various and sundry targets...
i am absolutely certain they followed the constitution on each and every one of those unconstitutional search and seizures...
pretty sure...
maybe...
a couple...
okay, some body once *thought* of following the constitution...
possibly...
SHUT UP, submit, and consume, citizen ! ! !
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