"That clearly states the exact opposite of what Carter claims."
Unless of course, a part of the re-interpretation of the Bill of Rights after 9/11, was to re-purpose the term "unreasonable" to mean something less restrictive.
Thus,
"...against unreasonable searches and seizures..."
might become, for example,
"...against unseasonable searches and seizures...".
He was obviously hired specifically because of his lack of comprehension and understanding of the things he is being told to regulate.
How is this different from any of the myriad other typical government officials in charge of regulating anything else in America?
It is after all, so much easier for those who run America Co., to direct a moron who has no clue to do their bidding, than it is to direct someone who might actually realize that what they are demanding is stupid and foolish and who might then question their motives and intentions... like for example, someone like Snowden.
This man obviously knows how to do his job perfectly.
He signs the papers that are placed in front of him, speaks the words written out for him to say, and dutifully cashes his paychecks with a large grin on his face.
He is a perfect public servant.
Without such minions, a fascist government could not operate a profitable pseudo-government business like America Co..
" ...I'd rather have some bad people on the street... "
Hell, compared to the bad people behind the doors in the halls of power, you could call the worst of the street villains, just plain Joe Six-packs with a second job.
Steal a loaf of bread from a grocery store, and serve 3 years in prison.
Steal 30 billion dollars from half of America, and get a promotion, a raise in pay, and 3 bonus bimbos, or one disposable child of your choice - (the bank of CCC option).
Justice aint blind.
It left the country back in 1960, for places unknown.
" That's insane -- and raises serious questions about his competence to lead a government agency charged with protecting the Constitution."
Well, that would be insane, if he was actually leading a government agency charged with protecting the Constitution...
but its perfectly sane, if he happens to be nothing more than the PR man for a criminal organization hell bent on knowing what all the peasants they're robbing blind, happen to be doing and saying to each other 24/7, in order to see the revolution before it arrives and be able to get on that waiting Lear jet to China, Russia and Spain, before the fully impoverished peasants start tearing down the edifices of power, looking for heads to stick on their pikes.
So how come airlines don't have little cameras mounted all over the plane showing all the vital parts of the plane to the pilots, on a monitor in the cabin, with simple function checks built into those vital components to display conditions like "Not Working", and "Fully Operational"?
The new CSI Cyber-Terrorist show - (starring my favorite lady bartender from Boardwalk Empire) - is doing its level best to teach the US public that anything that has a motor, batteries, or connects to an electric outlet, can be hacked by the newest super-villains - the Cyber Hackers - into an atomic bomb, or a death-ray cannon.
All they need is a laptop, a sexy partner, and lots of coffee.
Come on now. Give them credit where credit is due.
Had the surveillance network stopped these acts, what would they use to scare the tax-payers with??
My wonder is how many of these Terrorist Attacks did they finance, plan and execute themselves, specifically to scare the money out the taxpayers.
The FBI might use phony bombs and phony bullets for their brand of home-made newsworthy Terrorist skits, but the CIA plays for real and uses real bombs and bullets for their false flag scenraios.
Since criminals keep few records - of their own actions - we'll likely never know.
1. They're not Marxists, or Commies. They are Fascists - basically, businessmen disguised as statesmen.
If you're gonna aim yer gun, you should make sure you're aiming at the right targets. Otherwise ye can shoot all day and your real enemies will just sell you more bullets.
2. They did not infiltrate this country. They live here. In fact the billionaires liquidating America probably own more US property than the rest of the 99% combined.
So if yer looking for a foe that speaks and dresses funny, you're gonna wind up getting backstabbed by those guys behind you, who look and act just like you.
" ...blanket surveillance is highly unlikely to prevent a terrorist attack..."
You might want to ask those same mathematicians whether or not mass vacuuming up of everyone's communications and personal data indiscriminately would make the creation of large numbers of blackmail portfolios easier.
I'll bet they come back with a whole different answer.
Well, its been three days, so I will accept your lack of response to my question as a note of agreement then - or at least an admission that you have no come-back - or, as is more likely, that you simply never read that far. :)
" ...giving corporations power over lawmakers... "
I cannot think of a better description of Fascism.
All of these "treaties" are simply the means by which the billionaire fascists of the world plan to introduce global corporate control, legally.
They have succeeded in laying the ground work using the early versions of these treaties, like NAFTA, and all that is left now is to ratify the final legal basis for corporate sovereignty and legalize corporate exploitation and profiteering.
All that is left now is to place the final nail in the coffin and bury freedom and human rights permanently.
Fascists always work from behind the scenes, behind closed doors, in secrecy, because what they want is never good for anyone but the fascists and their corporations.
It is after all, the entire purpose and nature of corporate existence, to maximize profits and minimize expenditures by any means possible, continuously, forever.
While eternally escalating profit and zero expenditure is patently impossible in a closed system, corporate mentality must seek that utopia relentlessly, regardless, by any and every means that it can find, or manufacture.
I love the smell of fried brains in the morning...
For the love of pete, if you're hell bent on killing people for their crimes, why not simply anesthetize them and dissect them alive, but unconscious, until bleeding, or the lack of some important organ stops the heart.
That way you get their organs fresh and intact and without the stress chemicals or poisons induced by hanging, toxic injection, or other painful death types - organs which can then be used to save other people's lives.
In this way, the criminal is handily and efficiently eliminated, but at least semi-humanely and in a manner that will lead to the saving of other lives.
Oh yeah... I forgot. The death sentence is also a means to exact a little barbaric pain-filled revenge for the victims of the criminals acts and the viewing public, before the ultimate end is achieved - such as watching his brain melt in the electric chair, the convulsions induced by injection of toxic chemicals, the firing squad bullets punching holes in his chest, or the death throes and bowel release of the hanged.
As a footnote, one of the main reasons, I think, that the USG is now composed of millionaire criminals hell-bent on liquidating the assets of the US Public for fun and profit, is the automatic and direct access it has to American Tax money - and of course the fact that it can tax the public without accounting for where or how that money is spent.
An annual, automatically renewed bounty of cash, that size, collected without even the tiniest pretext to its necessity or legality, is like a monstrously huge turd that is absolutely guaranteed to attract exactly the sort of vermin that currently occupies the halls of US power.
If the US public does not actually abolish the Federal Government altogether, the next best thing would be to remove its automatic access to Tax Payer's money and make it ask for and account for in full, every nickel it gets, by law.
Of course, since the currently conquered citizens of 5-I member nation number 2, have no voice and no say in the direction their country is heading, or in the manner in which they are governed, I suppose that's just another pipe dream too.
True. There is much post-war benefit in the draft for vets, in that the surviving vets can claim publically that they had no choice - it was kill or jail.
Volunteers, on the other hand, cannot make that claim and are stuck with defending their "choice" to a public that is less than friendly when they are unhappy with either the way the war went (bad P.R.), or if the war was perceived as being lost.
Volunteers however, make the politicians look good because a volunteer army is seen publically as a war of the people, rather than a war of the government.
War-Biz folks know well, that offering criminals amnesty and foreigners citizenship is an excellent way to recruit an army that appears to be voluntary, and which can be held up by politicians as proof of the need for that war - volunteers appear to prove that The People want to fight that war.
It helps also if you can have the banks punch a hole in your national economy, so the majority of people living on the edge of poverty are suddenly thrust into desperation and thus forced to also "volunteer" to join the war effort.
It is truly amazing how many methods have been tried and proven effective by the wealthy elites of nations around the world throughout history, to make a population drop their plows and pick up swords.
There is no business like war business.
I wonder if there was ever a war that was actually demanded by the public who fought in it.
You have to understand the civilian mentality when it comes to returning troops.
Even though the public cheered them on during the conflict, they can never really get past the knowledge that Military Personnel have been trained relentlessly and systematically, to kill people, including civilians.
There is no soft and squishy manner to say this.
When the troops come home, the civilians often see this as a flood of people-killers entering their neighborhoods.
Worse still, most vets suffer the inevitable mental repercussions of killing large numbers of other people and having those other people trying their level best to kill the vets, making them even more "risky" in the minds of those who remained behind during the conflict.
Generally speaking, this is why their is never any real massive grassroots outcry against the pathetic treatment by government, when it comes to returning veterans.
Certainly there are complaints - usually forwarded by the families of vets and vets themselves, but there is never any real solutions offered by government in response.
In almost every conflict in human history, the soldier survivor is discarded and ignored by society upon termination of the conflict that created him or her.
I'm going to assume you mean British Royalty "roll over and show their tummies to the US of A at the slightest prompt."
If you will note however, that every time you see the Brits "roll over and show their tummies to the US", the results of the US demand just happens to benefit the Brits as well, often more than the USA.
It is also usually over something that the Brits would have had more difficulty in advancing to their own people without the "demand" by the US, adding the "national security necessity" level to the situation.
Its generally called "Smoke and Mirrors", or "Sleight of Hand".
The very last thing the Five Eyes want is to let the US public become aware that the US fascists take their orders from Britain. It would be intensely counter productive to profits and control. Britain however, has always ruled over the Five Eyes members.
I take it you are not a student of political science, or of the process called the Confidence Game - two names for the same process actually.
"It explicitly does not include attacks against any member of any armed forces."
I disagree.
When a Rebel/"terrorist"/guerilla group attacks a military base, or fires rockets at troops, the media refers to the action as a military assault.
When a military force attacks a civilian population, the media refers to that action as a military assault.
Media only refers to an assault by civilians upon other civilians as a terrorist attack.
The distinction between Rebel and Terrorist that you posted above is merely a media-based perception trick, as the Rebels and Guerillas of every human conflict have used the exact same tactics, for very simple reasons.
A Rebel/Guerilla/Terrorist Force will almost always attack military troops from a distance to prevent massive retaliation by the well-armed and highly disciplined military survivors, against which the minimally armed and usually untrained Rebels have no defense.
It does not mean that Guerillas/Rebels/Terrorists cannot and do not attack military personnel - only that such attacks upon military personnel are rare and are perceived differently by the public because they are reported differently by the media.
Traditional Terrorists primarily attack civilian targets because there is minimal security, if any, and almost no retaliation possible.
Terrorists/Rebels/Guerillas generally do not possess the kind of weapons necessary to confront an armed military force - especially one as well equipped as would be found in any Five Eyes Nation.
ISIL is the first real exception to this rule because ISIL was recruited, financed and trained by the Fascist Five Eyes BOD, in order to further their own agenda and maintain the public fear of Terrorism, that diverts billions into their pockets from tax-payers every year.
The entire purpose of Basic Empire Purge and Infrastructure Destruction is to eliminate military aged persons from the invaded and conquered nation, leaving only the very young and the very old, with nothing they can use as weapons - who are naturally forced to spend most of their effort in pure survival in the ruins of their cities, left devoid of food, clean water and power.
The original premise of rebellion/terrorism was that, in order to affect Regime Change in the conquering Empire nation, it was necessary to affect the people of that nation, because only the people of a nation can affect regime change in their nation.
Regardless, the "definition" of Terrorism, as it was, or as it is, has no bearing on the meaning of the Declaration of war AGAINST Terrorism, or the fact that it is in effect, a declaration of war against all civilians, including the civilians living in the nations that have made the declaration.
In fact, the reason that the news has carried repeated disclosures of white mercenaries from Britain, Canada, and the USA - all 5i member nations - among the ranks of ISIL, is to prove to the public at large, the necessity of massive surveillance of the home population, because your own civilians can also easily become "terrorists" at will, without warning.
The simple truth remains, that the declaration of the War against Terrorism by the member nations of the Five Eyes, is a declaration of war against civilians, worldwide.
" It's difficult to see how the suing broadband providers are going to get past that ruling."
Hmmm.... let's see. There's bribery, blackmail, coercion, character and physical assassination, lobbying, deception, manufacturing false evidence, hiring phony "Experts" for massive disinformation campaigns on public media ....
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Re:
Unless of course, a part of the re-interpretation of the Bill of Rights after 9/11, was to re-purpose the term "unreasonable" to mean something less restrictive.
Thus,
"...against unreasonable searches and seizures..."
might become, for example,
"...against unseasonable searches and seizures...".
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Official Minionship
He was obviously hired specifically because of his lack of comprehension and understanding of the things he is being told to regulate.
How is this different from any of the myriad other typical government officials in charge of regulating anything else in America?
It is after all, so much easier for those who run America Co., to direct a moron who has no clue to do their bidding, than it is to direct someone who might actually realize that what they are demanding is stupid and foolish and who might then question their motives and intentions... like for example, someone like Snowden.
This man obviously knows how to do his job perfectly.
He signs the papers that are placed in front of him, speaks the words written out for him to say, and dutifully cashes his paychecks with a large grin on his face.
He is a perfect public servant.
Without such minions, a fascist government could not operate a profitable pseudo-government business like America Co..
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Re:
Hell, compared to the bad people behind the doors in the halls of power, you could call the worst of the street villains, just plain Joe Six-packs with a second job.
Steal a loaf of bread from a grocery store, and serve 3 years in prison.
Steal 30 billion dollars from half of America, and get a promotion, a raise in pay, and 3 bonus bimbos, or one disposable child of your choice - (the bank of CCC option).
Justice aint blind.
It left the country back in 1960, for places unknown.
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Exit Stage Left
Well, that would be insane, if he was actually leading a government agency charged with protecting the Constitution...
but its perfectly sane, if he happens to be nothing more than the PR man for a criminal organization hell bent on knowing what all the peasants they're robbing blind, happen to be doing and saying to each other 24/7, in order to see the revolution before it arrives and be able to get on that waiting Lear jet to China, Russia and Spain, before the fully impoverished peasants start tearing down the edifices of power, looking for heads to stick on their pikes.
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Re: Re: Re:
Too expensive??
Too Science-fictiony??
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Beware of nine year olds bearing laptops!!!!!
All they need is a laptop, a sexy partner, and lots of coffee.
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Re:
Had the surveillance network stopped these acts, what would they use to scare the tax-payers with??
My wonder is how many of these Terrorist Attacks did they finance, plan and execute themselves, specifically to scare the money out the taxpayers.
The FBI might use phony bombs and phony bullets for their brand of home-made newsworthy Terrorist skits, but the CIA plays for real and uses real bombs and bullets for their false flag scenraios.
Since criminals keep few records - of their own actions - we'll likely never know.
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Chances of thisw bill passing....
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Re: The Jury
1. They're not Marxists, or Commies. They are Fascists - basically, businessmen disguised as statesmen.
If you're gonna aim yer gun, you should make sure you're aiming at the right targets. Otherwise ye can shoot all day and your real enemies will just sell you more bullets.
2. They did not infiltrate this country. They live here. In fact the billionaires liquidating America probably own more US property than the rest of the 99% combined.
So if yer looking for a foe that speaks and dresses funny, you're gonna wind up getting backstabbed by those guys behind you, who look and act just like you.
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Re: NSA's misuse of resources
You might want to ask those same mathematicians whether or not mass vacuuming up of everyone's communications and personal data indiscriminately would make the creation of large numbers of blackmail portfolios easier.
I'll bet they come back with a whole different answer.
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Re: Re: Re: Rant #23
Well, its been three days, so I will accept your lack of response to my question as a note of agreement then - or at least an admission that you have no come-back - or, as is more likely, that you simply never read that far. :)
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The Sacred Institutions of Capital Addicition
I cannot think of a better description of Fascism.
All of these "treaties" are simply the means by which the billionaire fascists of the world plan to introduce global corporate control, legally.
They have succeeded in laying the ground work using the early versions of these treaties, like NAFTA, and all that is left now is to ratify the final legal basis for corporate sovereignty and legalize corporate exploitation and profiteering.
All that is left now is to place the final nail in the coffin and bury freedom and human rights permanently.
Fascists always work from behind the scenes, behind closed doors, in secrecy, because what they want is never good for anyone but the fascists and their corporations.
It is after all, the entire purpose and nature of corporate existence, to maximize profits and minimize expenditures by any means possible, continuously, forever.
While eternally escalating profit and zero expenditure is patently impossible in a closed system, corporate mentality must seek that utopia relentlessly, regardless, by any and every means that it can find, or manufacture.
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I love the smell of fried brains in the morning...
That way you get their organs fresh and intact and without the stress chemicals or poisons induced by hanging, toxic injection, or other painful death types - organs which can then be used to save other people's lives.
In this way, the criminal is handily and efficiently eliminated, but at least semi-humanely and in a manner that will lead to the saving of other lives.
Oh yeah... I forgot. The death sentence is also a means to exact a little barbaric pain-filled revenge for the victims of the criminals acts and the viewing public, before the ultimate end is achieved - such as watching his brain melt in the electric chair, the convulsions induced by injection of toxic chemicals, the firing squad bullets punching holes in his chest, or the death throes and bowel release of the hanged.
Spectator favourites all.
Silly me.
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Re: The Currency of Life on Earth
An annual, automatically renewed bounty of cash, that size, collected without even the tiniest pretext to its necessity or legality, is like a monstrously huge turd that is absolutely guaranteed to attract exactly the sort of vermin that currently occupies the halls of US power.
If the US public does not actually abolish the Federal Government altogether, the next best thing would be to remove its automatic access to Tax Payer's money and make it ask for and account for in full, every nickel it gets, by law.
Of course, since the currently conquered citizens of 5-I member nation number 2, have no voice and no say in the direction their country is heading, or in the manner in which they are governed, I suppose that's just another pipe dream too.
C'est la vie, eh.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Volunteers, on the other hand, cannot make that claim and are stuck with defending their "choice" to a public that is less than friendly when they are unhappy with either the way the war went (bad P.R.), or if the war was perceived as being lost.
Volunteers however, make the politicians look good because a volunteer army is seen publically as a war of the people, rather than a war of the government.
War-Biz folks know well, that offering criminals amnesty and foreigners citizenship is an excellent way to recruit an army that appears to be voluntary, and which can be held up by politicians as proof of the need for that war - volunteers appear to prove that The People want to fight that war.
It helps also if you can have the banks punch a hole in your national economy, so the majority of people living on the edge of poverty are suddenly thrust into desperation and thus forced to also "volunteer" to join the war effort.
It is truly amazing how many methods have been tried and proven effective by the wealthy elites of nations around the world throughout history, to make a population drop their plows and pick up swords.
There is no business like war business.
I wonder if there was ever a war that was actually demanded by the public who fought in it.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Even though the public cheered them on during the conflict, they can never really get past the knowledge that Military Personnel have been trained relentlessly and systematically, to kill people, including civilians.
There is no soft and squishy manner to say this.
When the troops come home, the civilians often see this as a flood of people-killers entering their neighborhoods.
Worse still, most vets suffer the inevitable mental repercussions of killing large numbers of other people and having those other people trying their level best to kill the vets, making them even more "risky" in the minds of those who remained behind during the conflict.
Generally speaking, this is why their is never any real massive grassroots outcry against the pathetic treatment by government, when it comes to returning veterans.
Certainly there are complaints - usually forwarded by the families of vets and vets themselves, but there is never any real solutions offered by government in response.
In almost every conflict in human history, the soldier survivor is discarded and ignored by society upon termination of the conflict that created him or her.
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Re: Re: Lifting the veil.
If you will note however, that every time you see the Brits "roll over and show their tummies to the US", the results of the US demand just happens to benefit the Brits as well, often more than the USA.
It is also usually over something that the Brits would have had more difficulty in advancing to their own people without the "demand" by the US, adding the "national security necessity" level to the situation.
Its generally called "Smoke and Mirrors", or "Sleight of Hand".
The very last thing the Five Eyes want is to let the US public become aware that the US fascists take their orders from Britain. It would be intensely counter productive to profits and control. Britain however, has always ruled over the Five Eyes members.
I take it you are not a student of political science, or of the process called the Confidence Game - two names for the same process actually.
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Re: Re: Rant #23
I disagree.
When a Rebel/"terrorist"/guerilla group attacks a military base, or fires rockets at troops, the media refers to the action as a military assault.
When a military force attacks a civilian population, the media refers to that action as a military assault.
Media only refers to an assault by civilians upon other civilians as a terrorist attack.
The distinction between Rebel and Terrorist that you posted above is merely a media-based perception trick, as the Rebels and Guerillas of every human conflict have used the exact same tactics, for very simple reasons.
A Rebel/Guerilla/Terrorist Force will almost always attack military troops from a distance to prevent massive retaliation by the well-armed and highly disciplined military survivors, against which the minimally armed and usually untrained Rebels have no defense.
It does not mean that Guerillas/Rebels/Terrorists cannot and do not attack military personnel - only that such attacks upon military personnel are rare and are perceived differently by the public because they are reported differently by the media.
Traditional Terrorists primarily attack civilian targets because there is minimal security, if any, and almost no retaliation possible.
Terrorists/Rebels/Guerillas generally do not possess the kind of weapons necessary to confront an armed military force - especially one as well equipped as would be found in any Five Eyes Nation.
ISIL is the first real exception to this rule because ISIL was recruited, financed and trained by the Fascist Five Eyes BOD, in order to further their own agenda and maintain the public fear of Terrorism, that diverts billions into their pockets from tax-payers every year.
The entire purpose of Basic Empire Purge and Infrastructure Destruction is to eliminate military aged persons from the invaded and conquered nation, leaving only the very young and the very old, with nothing they can use as weapons - who are naturally forced to spend most of their effort in pure survival in the ruins of their cities, left devoid of food, clean water and power.
The original premise of rebellion/terrorism was that, in order to affect Regime Change in the conquering Empire nation, it was necessary to affect the people of that nation, because only the people of a nation can affect regime change in their nation.
Regardless, the "definition" of Terrorism, as it was, or as it is, has no bearing on the meaning of the Declaration of war AGAINST Terrorism, or the fact that it is in effect, a declaration of war against all civilians, including the civilians living in the nations that have made the declaration.
In fact, the reason that the news has carried repeated disclosures of white mercenaries from Britain, Canada, and the USA - all 5i member nations - among the ranks of ISIL, is to prove to the public at large, the necessity of massive surveillance of the home population, because your own civilians can also easily become "terrorists" at will, without warning.
The simple truth remains, that the declaration of the War against Terrorism by the member nations of the Five Eyes, is a declaration of war against civilians, worldwide.
Do you disagree with that last statement?
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Re: Re: Re: People Rule US
Then I'm sure we all sincerely hope that you will do whatever you can to insure that you do NOT side with them in future. :)
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The Business Model
Hmmm.... let's see. There's bribery, blackmail, coercion, character and physical assassination, lobbying, deception, manufacturing false evidence, hiring phony "Experts" for massive disinformation campaigns on public media ....
I'm sure they'll have no problem at all.
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