Perhaps they really did not know exactly who the perceived leadership was and decided to let the corporate assassination plot proceed in the hopes of both learning who they were - (to aid in the destruction of their families later) - and in ending the embarrassing protests, in a single inexpensive procedure.
After all, the assassination contracts appear to have been taken out by the banks themselves, and thus the assassins were already paid for.
"...even though our CONSTITUTION allows for peaceful protests..."
Ummm, that would be the old Pre-9/11 Constitution you are referring to, yes?
Perhaps you missed the article.
The new Corporate Constitution, as interpreted by the USG Post-9/11, does not actually allow for peaceful protests by citizens, unless the citizens in question are military and police personnel wearing protestor garb and the protest itself is specifically performed for the purpose of creating a news story about the violence and unruliness of protestors.
Welcome to Amerika. Please follow the yellow rubber line.
Sadly, this kind of behavior - assassination lists - tends to be the forte of the very same nasty folks we are now discussing; the minions of corruption and crime who currently hold office in the halls of power.
Good folks tend to avoid murder.
Bad folks tend to adore murder.
More likely there are lists already drawn up, of those who the folks in power deem to be a possible or probable threat - such as those who talk about making lists of assholes to eliminate. :)
Since the decline in health of the 99%, and thus the rate of death among the poor and middle classes is far faster than the decline in the number of billionaires and their minions, I tend to disagree.
In truth, the disease of fascism ends when the rulers have stolen all of the wealth from the public - lower and middle classes - and since there is at that point, nothing left to steal from those beneath them, they turn on each other as the only sources of wealth left to steal.
So the number of members of the secret super-rich fascist army does indeed diminish fairly rapidly near the terminal point of the disease's progress.
Only the winners of that contest get to leave the corpse of the nation they destroyed and seek a new host elsewhere and that would indeed be more like 0.01%.
However, I don't think the situation has reached anything near that point yet, so I'll stick with my (popularly posited) 1% estimation until such time as the number of fascists in power begins to visibly decline after the public is completely drained of its wealth and privilege and the fascists begin to eat each other.
Gee. Sounds an awful lot like what would be expected from an agency chasing manufactured shadows and ghosts.
If Terrorism was really just a propaganda ruse to scare Americans into giving up their freedoms in return for false security against a non-existent but highly publicized threat, manufactured by a cabal of billionaire fascists pretending to be the USG, then those agencies charged with keeping the country safe from such non-existent threats would indeed be filled with people who - after a few years of pointless paper pushing - found that they had no real jobs, no real purpose, no real leadership, no real reason to try and do their not real jobs, and generally felt they were all utterly useless and wasting their time.
Any "study" performed on such an agency would be guaranteed bottom drawer material.
Well hell folks, I'm kind of amazed that people who sell sucrose and caffeine to kids, have taken this long to show that they are just professional level assholes by jumping into the copyright/trademark bully arena.
The only surprise here is that it took so long. You'd think their "wings" would have sped things up...
Considering that their first target is a product that is almost as NOT infringing on their trademark as is physically possible, I'd say that this is a test shot across the bow, to see how hard it would be to make cash demands of brands that actually bear some small resemblance to their over-priced kiddie-toxin-in-water product.
Any company that willingly poisons kids for money, is a perfect candidate for making even more money on the side through trademark extortion... in my opinion only, of course.
Are they saying that they wish to replace the current and long standing government-type public-relations based propaganda and corporate-profit-driven policy-making with a form of publically analyzable and verifiable policy making, derived from factual data garnered from myriad on-the-site social media outlets and other sources that can be easily verified as factual?
If so, it'll never be allowed as long as money runs the world and honesty is seen as the enemy of the state.
In the real world, the truth is only important if manipulation and factual massaging can make it work for those in power. This sort of process would expose such manipulation constantly, continuously ruining the game for those at the head of the food chain.
The unfettered and raw truth is something humanity has seldom witnessed on earth. It would topple empires and destroy the ability of wealthy men to make the rules, and thus, cannot be allowed.
Not sure about Russia, but China is manufacturing everything for the Five Eyes countries, because all their factories were sent to China.
After all, you can't really have a good war when your people are employed and happy. Take away their ability to get jobs and they'll line up for the only jobs in town - soldier, sailor, bomber-pilot and spy.
"Obstruction of Justice" most likely, since justice is now meted out for the members of the Ownership Society only.
You want justice for you and your family?
Get filthy stinking rich, and become a member of the 1%.
Remember, it does not matter how you get rich, only that you get rich, because, once you're rich, the laws against criminal activities no longer apply to you.
Its an ancient and proven conquest process that changes very little over the centuries, because it works.
It almost always succeeds because its an invasion from within by the very people we normally hold in highest esteem, and the public is always too busy watching for the fascist-manufactured invasion from without - in today's case, Terrorists - to notice that their laws are being turned against them.
Sadly, because it is a secret war, waged from behind the scenes, using deception and guile rather than guns and bombs, and because it is waged against a people by their own wealthiest members, who can rewrite the laws at will, and who own the machines of production and finance, it is nearly impossible to prevent its success once it has taken over the nation's government.
The really bad part is, like an infectious disease, it always leaves the nation it infects, broken and weak, if not completely destroyed, when the glutted conquerors move on to a new host, carrying away the nations wealth.
So states are now scrambling for a PR fix to their recently exposed legalized theft activities. Totally expected.
Any legislation created for this farce will do absolutely nothing as far as stopping the cops from stealing public property at gun point.
There's just no way the cops can go back to protecting and serving, once they've had a taste of armed robbery and licensed murder.
As soon as one state gets a really good "lawyerly worded" version that sounds perfect but does diddly, all the other states will adopt that particular version of the "No More Reverse Robin Hood Law".
Then, with the public bamboozled into thinking the cops have suddenly become honest, the Sherriff's Men will go right back out and commit some more armed robberies and probably a lot more licensed murders as the public starts to fight back to keep their property from being stolen.
Of course, the inevitable public response to being robbed at gunpoint by the cops will justify a wave of new military equipment purchases from the DoD and the circle just keeps on turning.
Fascism 101 folks.
What is really cool about all of this is that you all get to watch real history taking place right before your eyes.
In the past, fascists took over all the infrastructure of a nation before people even knew they existed.
Of course, that's because fascists are just your own super rich citizens, who want to keep the gravy train for themselves and who have combined their wealth and connections to alter the laws to legalize their own criminal behavior and to prevent any of the folks from the 99% reaching the top.
You should be grateful. You're the first civilization to actually see the process of national social decline via fascism, in action. Lets hope some of us live long enough to warn the next generation this time.
Ah well, looks like Google has just made a brand new opening in the internet business world for someone with a little less fear of the Organized Fanatical Christian Complaints System, to open a new Adults Allowed based set up, for fun and profit.
Might be a good idea to make it Christians Need Not Apply though.
If Rifkind was the exception, the system is compromised, but if, as I suspect, Rifkind is the rule, the system is not just corrupt, but has been established primarily for the profitability of selling "connections in high places" type dealings such as seen in this case.
If the Mob had taken over the governments of the Five Eyes Nations, would things appear any differently than they do now?
Don't look now, but there's likely one of these in your city too - they just aint been caught yet.
Its like renderies - stinky eye-sores that exist in every city, but nobody ever sees them.
In fact, I'd lay odds that these civilized pseudo-military police "concentration" camps are common to every large city in America and have been for years - at least as long as the cops have been buying soldier-wear and weapons of massive destruction from the military.
Fascism is a business model that is run under the exact same "rules of order" every time.
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Re: Re: Leadership?
After all, the assassination contracts appear to have been taken out by the banks themselves, and thus the assassins were already paid for.
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On the post: FBI, Working With Banks, Chose Not To Inform Occupy Leadership Of Assassination Plot On Its Leaders
Re: Re: Definition of a Terrorist
Ummm, that would be the old Pre-9/11 Constitution you are referring to, yes?
Perhaps you missed the article.
The new Corporate Constitution, as interpreted by the USG Post-9/11, does not actually allow for peaceful protests by citizens, unless the citizens in question are military and police personnel wearing protestor garb and the protest itself is specifically performed for the purpose of creating a news story about the violence and unruliness of protestors.
Welcome to Amerika.
Please follow the yellow rubber line.
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Re: Re: Hypocrisy thy name is politician
Damn. That was good.
Best laugh I've had this week in fact.
Keep up the great comedy stuff.
On the post: NSA Director: If I Say 'Legal Framework' Enough, Will It Convince You Security People To Shut Up About Our Plan To Backdoor Encryption?
Fascist Dictionary
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A PR word for secret interpretation.
Legal Framework
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A PR term for a secret interpretation of a law.
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Good folks tend to avoid murder.
Bad folks tend to adore murder.
More likely there are lists already drawn up, of those who the folks in power deem to be a possible or probable threat - such as those who talk about making lists of assholes to eliminate. :)
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Re: The 1%...
In truth, the disease of fascism ends when the rulers have stolen all of the wealth from the public - lower and middle classes - and since there is at that point, nothing left to steal from those beneath them, they turn on each other as the only sources of wealth left to steal.
So the number of members of the secret super-rich fascist army does indeed diminish fairly rapidly near the terminal point of the disease's progress.
Only the winners of that contest get to leave the corpse of the nation they destroyed and seek a new host elsewhere and that would indeed be more like 0.01%.
However, I don't think the situation has reached anything near that point yet, so I'll stick with my (popularly posited) 1% estimation until such time as the number of fascists in power begins to visibly decline after the public is completely drained of its wealth and privilege and the fascists begin to eat each other.
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On the post: Study After Study Shows The DHS Has An Intense Morale Problem That Can Apparently Only Be Solved By Study After Study
The Boogeyman Brigade.
If Terrorism was really just a propaganda ruse to scare Americans into giving up their freedoms in return for false security against a non-existent but highly publicized threat, manufactured by a cabal of billionaire fascists pretending to be the USG, then those agencies charged with keeping the country safe from such non-existent threats would indeed be filled with people who - after a few years of pointless paper pushing - found that they had no real jobs, no real purpose, no real leadership, no real reason to try and do their not real jobs, and generally felt they were all utterly useless and wasting their time.
Any "study" performed on such an agency would be guaranteed bottom drawer material.
Go figger eh. :)
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On the post: Red Bull Disputes Old Ox Brewery Trademarked Logo/Name Because, Seriously, An Ox Is Just A Castrated Bull
Water, Sucrose and Caffeine... yumm!
The only surprise here is that it took so long. You'd think their "wings" would have sped things up...
Considering that their first target is a product that is almost as NOT infringing on their trademark as is physically possible, I'd say that this is a test shot across the bow, to see how hard it would be to make cash demands of brands that actually bear some small resemblance to their over-priced kiddie-toxin-in-water product.
Any company that willingly poisons kids for money, is a perfect candidate for making even more money on the side through trademark extortion... in my opinion only, of course.
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On the post: Should Open Source Intelligence Be Used For Policy Making?
Reality based policy? On Earth???
Are they saying that they wish to replace the current and long standing government-type public-relations based propaganda and corporate-profit-driven policy-making with a form of publically analyzable and verifiable policy making, derived from factual data garnered from myriad on-the-site social media outlets and other sources that can be easily verified as factual?
If so, it'll never be allowed as long as money runs the world and honesty is seen as the enemy of the state.
In the real world, the truth is only important if manipulation and factual massaging can make it work for those in power. This sort of process would expose such manipulation constantly, continuously ruining the game for those at the head of the food chain.
The unfettered and raw truth is something humanity has seldom witnessed on earth. It would topple empires and destroy the ability of wealthy men to make the rules, and thus, cannot be allowed.
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On the post: DailyDirt: Drugs Are Baaaad, mmKay?
Rasberries
Drugs are Bad.
However.
No Drugs are Badder.
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After all, you can't really have a good war when your people are employed and happy. Take away their ability to get jobs and they'll line up for the only jobs in town - soldier, sailor, bomber-pilot and spy.
It always works.
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Re:
The fun has only just begun.
See all those dead civilizations?
They never saw it coming.
Keep your eyes open and your head down, and maybe you will.
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"Obstruction of Justice" most likely, since justice is now meted out for the members of the Ownership Society only.
You want justice for you and your family?
Get filthy stinking rich, and become a member of the 1%.
Remember, it does not matter how you get rich, only that you get rich, because, once you're rich, the laws against criminal activities no longer apply to you.
---
On the post: The Guardian Details The Horrors Of Chicago Police's 'CIA-Style Black Site'
Re:
Its an ancient and proven conquest process that changes very little over the centuries, because it works.
It almost always succeeds because its an invasion from within by the very people we normally hold in highest esteem, and the public is always too busy watching for the fascist-manufactured invasion from without - in today's case, Terrorists - to notice that their laws are being turned against them.
Sadly, because it is a secret war, waged from behind the scenes, using deception and guile rather than guns and bombs, and because it is waged against a people by their own wealthiest members, who can rewrite the laws at will, and who own the machines of production and finance, it is nearly impossible to prevent its success once it has taken over the nation's government.
The really bad part is, like an infectious disease, it always leaves the nation it infects, broken and weak, if not completely destroyed, when the glutted conquerors move on to a new host, carrying away the nations wealth.
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On the post: Virginia Lawmakers Attempting To Reform State's Asset Forfeiture Debacle By Pushing For A Conviction Requirement
Honest politicians, honest cops, honest laws - dreams
So states are now scrambling for a PR fix to their recently exposed legalized theft activities. Totally expected.
Any legislation created for this farce will do absolutely nothing as far as stopping the cops from stealing public property at gun point.
There's just no way the cops can go back to protecting and serving, once they've had a taste of armed robbery and licensed murder.
As soon as one state gets a really good "lawyerly worded" version that sounds perfect but does diddly, all the other states will adopt that particular version of the "No More Reverse Robin Hood Law".
Then, with the public bamboozled into thinking the cops have suddenly become honest, the Sherriff's Men will go right back out and commit some more armed robberies and probably a lot more licensed murders as the public starts to fight back to keep their property from being stolen.
Of course, the inevitable public response to being robbed at gunpoint by the cops will justify a wave of new military equipment purchases from the DoD and the circle just keeps on turning.
Fascism 101 folks.
What is really cool about all of this is that you all get to watch real history taking place right before your eyes.
In the past, fascists took over all the infrastructure of a nation before people even knew they existed.
Of course, that's because fascists are just your own super rich citizens, who want to keep the gravy train for themselves and who have combined their wealth and connections to alter the laws to legalize their own criminal behavior and to prevent any of the folks from the 99% reaching the top.
You should be grateful. You're the first civilization to actually see the process of national social decline via fascism, in action. Lets hope some of us live long enough to warn the next generation this time.
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On the post: Google Gets Prude: Says No More Adult Content On Blogger
Oh the persecution!!!
Might be a good idea to make it Christians Need Not Apply though.
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On the post: Head Of UK Parliamentary Committee Overseeing Intelligence Agencies Resigns After Being Caught In Sting
"You dirty rat!"
If the Mob had taken over the governments of the Five Eyes Nations, would things appear any differently than they do now?
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On the post: The Guardian Details The Horrors Of Chicago Police's 'CIA-Style Black Site'
Look to the past to see the future.
Don't look now, but there's likely one of these in your city too - they just aint been caught yet.
Its like renderies - stinky eye-sores that exist in every city, but nobody ever sees them.
In fact, I'd lay odds that these civilized pseudo-military police "concentration" camps are common to every large city in America and have been for years - at least as long as the cops have been buying soldier-wear and weapons of massive destruction from the military.
Fascism is a business model that is run under the exact same "rules of order" every time.
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On the post: Google Blasts DOJ's Request For Expanded Search Powers; Calls Proposal A Threat To The Fourth Amendment
All these doors and all these keys - all we need is an auto-warrant!
DOJ wants to be able to enter and search computers legally, worldwide, without even having to know where the computer might be located....
Nah. No connection there, I'm sure. :)
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