My NSA would come across communications by any US person and immediately and automatically encrypt that transmission only to be opened or inspected with just cause under a court order. That's what my NSA would do.
World domination begins and ends at home. Your NSA is the program.
Were I a spook I would've been using/encouraging known exploits (especially those "you heard it here first" special edition deliveries) to exploit any and every machine on a wire, period. Wire tapped, key logged, private locks and private doors. select x-morecontent from theworld where z-content in(kill, bomb, jihad, '%yourgirlfriend%', selfie);
These fuckers are not only some of the worst, thieving cunts in business in this country but they've been steeling our privacy right along with our money.
Telco is a very, very large part of what has gone very, very wrong.
Immunity for breaking the tenets of the country. What's next? Medals of Honor?
It's not OK. How the hell are all of the idiots supposed to have anything remotely resembling a clue if the Fourth Estate shirks their responsibilities. It's not OK. It's pretty far from OK.
I'm starting to think that that would be a lot of arrests.
Lot's not be hasty, fair trials and all that, and besides, don't we stand for justice? I mean look at Snowden, look at Manning, clearly we don't abuse anyone much less everyone ..
Yes, perhaps it's time to consider arresting people.
Every day I'm scrounging through countless news reels looking for anything remotely resembling decisive actions that attempt to drive the direction of this country back from whence it came.
Congress is corrupted by cash, the people are idiots, the president is a puppet and the conditions for an actual, honest to goodness, mom and apple pie police state are not only ripe but they are prevalent, present, armed and dangerous and their reach clearly is without limits.
Who, in their right mind, is so afraid of TERRORISTS(!) that they could give less than half a shit about the foundations of freedom? Who? Because I, for one, would like to know who the enemy truly is.
The Executive branch is rogue. That line was crossed quite some time ago was it not? Any "influence" the common man has on that branch will be met with arms, brutality, blood, detention, jail etc. A signed NDAA was not received lightly. When CIA Director Brennan was asked if drones could be used against unarmed Americans and his answer was "no" just how much credibility does that really carry? Current indications would say none, none at all.
The Judicial.. I'm not sure. I'd be willing to bet that there are more than a few judges that are not at ease with the way things are progressing, if not their own judgements. Ultimately, like the other two, they're all failing their mandate.
Congress has the tools accessible to a public inclined to use them. It is the people's working branch and it, along with the people, bear the ultimately responsibility for this being allowed to continue. They make the laws and divvy up our monies.
The Executive is so far out of order, and has been for so long, that it's indistinguishable from tyranny when it's looked at as a single controlling entity. Police Commissioner Kelly is all but assured a nomination for the head of DHS. Soon one fifth of the country could be made to submit to stop and frisk. It would definitely be led by an individual that believes that that is OK and that's not OK.
Congress and the fourth estate and the people have work to do. The Judicial will be made to work it out and the Executive must be brought to task.
I submit that a congressional inquiry be formed and proceed immediately.
The inquiry should be enabled with the means for an aggressive discovery, perhaps one as potent as the NSA's known capabilities and with an equal precision. Discover everything.
And here I sit knowing everything I type is any or all of; copied, intercepted and forwarded, saved, analyzed, reviewed, labeled, cataloged, stored. All accessible outside the means of a point and click readership for analysis and action. I'm basically typing into an NSA screen right now. Get that? All content, source, destination, comm link type, provider, comm link accounts back to content, source, destination for account links. That's a pretty fucked over population. It doesn't matter how you justify it because you can't.
And we can't feed the hungry. Yeah! Steal what is mine for wars and fear and control but let a brother dangle by threads of poverty, despair or both.
Congress has work to do. If "We The People" do not control the congress we are lost. Votes are an untimely and inadequate means of persuasion and direction.
The department of justice spies on citizens regardless of profession, without warrants and/or without just cause and without conscience.
Corporations are forced (or, in AT&T's case willing donors) to contribute to government transgression.
The department of justice enforces the law, interprets the law and lobbies for and gets laws passed that favor fighting crime over liberty.
Your data are belong to the department of justice and defense in multiple countries and for any reason.
Your communications, travels and financial transactions are all logged, cataloged and accessible at any time.
"What is this shit on my face? My God, what is that awful smell?"
Like it or not we are now a 97% controlled populace. Sure, you can still get away with breaking some laws but have fun storming the castle.
To hell with liberty and justice for all. The allegiance has crumbled.
"You're as free as we'll let you be." is not freedom, is not liberty and is definitely not a path to justice and most definitely not a path to safety.
You can't have freedom without privacy. No, you can't. You are, all of you, open books to liberty crooks, control freaks and decidedly unpatriotic patriots.
The shift.. The contractors suckle the teats of government whilst administrating the shocker.. and taking too much money away from a different kind of security, one that actually benefits society. By extension the government is both too big and too corrupt.
No way. It's mine. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. You get nothing. Besides, he used a comma and capped out "TO". As if it needed accentuation.. clearly these things are different - minus the Kennedy voice in your head of course.
What the hell man!? And here I thought I was all clever and shit. "Enters political activism" dafuq does that even mean anyway? Will Gross.. your mama out. pfft.
In this context my immediate opinion would be that offensive action, in this case cracking, is not quite as hunky dory as "monitoring foreign chatter".
We, the US, have just spent several weeks crowing from the rooftops about China's targeted cracks and yet .... it is now apparent that we are a full-blown offensive cracking machine.
The argument, I believe, is firstly that the US, specifically the DoD, is not authorized to collect, analyze or disseminate US communications and/or information pertaining to US citizens on US soil. Secondly, the insight and access into the privacy of all but every citizen on the planet is robustly in direct contradiction of the values that the country was founded on and, supposedly, values. Monitoring the global population is not a traditional sense of the politics of nations much less the spying of nations.
If you do not, in actions and words, value the privacy of your own citizens how the fuck is anyone ever going to take you seriously?
Our executive branch of government has turned into a hideous monster that twists laws into anything blunt and heavy enough to induce trauma at a whim. Our legislative branch fills their coffers from fat money and the overt belligerence of special interest lobbies.
The "public domain" is no longer a virtuous and ideological sphere of the wealth and greatness of man but a source of intelligence for the single most powerful and dangerous entity on the planet - the United States Department of Defense (followed closely by a compromised Congress that has, invariably, completely failed its charter)
No, the argument is not specifically whether or not the US should engage in surveillance of foreign countries rather it is an argument as to whether or not the US has failed its people and, more importantly, whether its people can retake the reigns and, once again, live the values that were once a righteous vindication on the value of a single man and the rights conferred to him simply by existing.
I sense a difficult path in the pursuit of happiness if my actions, words and movements are monitored. These are cages of minds and an oppression onto humanity. There is no just cause so great as to allow unfettered insight into the effects of every man.
But hey, I'm just me and that's how I sees it. To a certain degree, I comprehend the intricacies of defense and its myriad requirements I simply no longer understand what we're defending.
Some folks keep fingering "this administration" like it means more than it actually does. The Executive has been out of order throughout several occupants. Has it not? The department of justice with DRUGS and now the DOD with TERRORISM. If you think any president can right these wrongs as a matter of course I would suspect that that belief is mistaken.
However, I agree, this administration has continued and worsened both the present situation and the total damage to country.
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My NSA
World domination begins and ends at home. Your NSA is the program.
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These fuckers are not only some of the worst, thieving cunts in business in this country but they've been steeling our privacy right along with our money.
Telco is a very, very large part of what has gone very, very wrong.
Immunity for breaking the tenets of the country. What's next? Medals of Honor?
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Re: Re: No American outlets covered the event
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Lot's not be hasty, fair trials and all that, and besides, don't we stand for justice? I mean look at Snowden, look at Manning, clearly we don't abuse anyone much less everyone ..
Yes, perhaps it's time to consider arresting people.
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Re: Re: I wonder how many more slips before....
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evening rant
Congress is corrupted by cash, the people are idiots, the president is a puppet and the conditions for an actual, honest to goodness, mom and apple pie police state are not only ripe but they are prevalent, present, armed and dangerous and their reach clearly is without limits.
Who, in their right mind, is so afraid of TERRORISTS(!) that they could give less than half a shit about the foundations of freedom? Who? Because I, for one, would like to know who the enemy truly is.
WHERE ARE THE IDIOTS!?
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The Judicial.. I'm not sure. I'd be willing to bet that there are more than a few judges that are not at ease with the way things are progressing, if not their own judgements. Ultimately, like the other two, they're all failing their mandate.
Congress has the tools accessible to a public inclined to use them. It is the people's working branch and it, along with the people, bear the ultimately responsibility for this being allowed to continue. They make the laws and divvy up our monies.
The Executive is so far out of order, and has been for so long, that it's indistinguishable from tyranny when it's looked at as a single controlling entity. Police Commissioner Kelly is all but assured a nomination for the head of DHS. Soon one fifth of the country could be made to submit to stop and frisk. It would definitely be led by an individual that believes that that is OK and that's not OK.
Congress and the fourth estate and the people have work to do. The Judicial will be made to work it out and the Executive must be brought to task.
On the post: EFF Files Massive Lawsuit Over NSA Surveillance: Gun Rights, Civil Liberties Groups, Religious Groups Team Up
The inquiry should be enabled with the means for an aggressive discovery, perhaps one as potent as the NSA's known capabilities and with an equal precision. Discover everything.
And here I sit knowing everything I type is any or all of; copied, intercepted and forwarded, saved, analyzed, reviewed, labeled, cataloged, stored. All accessible outside the means of a point and click readership for analysis and action. I'm basically typing into an NSA screen right now. Get that? All content, source, destination, comm link type, provider, comm link accounts back to content, source, destination for account links. That's a pretty fucked over population. It doesn't matter how you justify it because you can't.
And we can't feed the hungry. Yeah! Steal what is mine for wars and fear and control but let a brother dangle by threads of poverty, despair or both.
Congress has work to do. If "We The People" do not control the congress we are lost. Votes are an untimely and inadequate means of persuasion and direction.
Please act accordingly.
On the post: DOJ's New 'Less Likely To Spy On Press' Rules Only Apply To Whoever DOJ Feels Is Really 'News Media'
Corporations are forced (or, in AT&T's case willing donors) to contribute to government transgression.
The department of justice enforces the law, interprets the law and lobbies for and gets laws passed that favor fighting crime over liberty.
Your data are belong to the department of justice and defense in multiple countries and for any reason.
Your communications, travels and financial transactions are all logged, cataloged and accessible at any time.
"What is this shit on my face? My God, what is that awful smell?"
Like it or not we are now a 97% controlled populace. Sure, you can still get away with breaking some laws but have fun storming the castle.
To hell with liberty and justice for all. The allegiance has crumbled.
"You're as free as we'll let you be." is not freedom, is not liberty and is definitely not a path to justice and most definitely not a path to safety.
You can't have freedom without privacy. No, you can't. You are, all of you, open books to liberty crooks, control freaks and decidedly unpatriotic patriots.
This is not the country you're looking for.
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Re: I hated you
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Don't Ask
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Re: Take it as you will
"God Bless America!" "All Hail Authority!"
.. is there a new anthem I should start learning the words to?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
We, the US, have just spent several weeks crowing from the rooftops about China's targeted cracks and yet .... it is now apparent that we are a full-blown offensive cracking machine.
The argument, I believe, is firstly that the US, specifically the DoD, is not authorized to collect, analyze or disseminate US communications and/or information pertaining to US citizens on US soil. Secondly, the insight and access into the privacy of all but every citizen on the planet is robustly in direct contradiction of the values that the country was founded on and, supposedly, values. Monitoring the global population is not a traditional sense of the politics of nations much less the spying of nations.
If you do not, in actions and words, value the privacy of your own citizens how the fuck is anyone ever going to take you seriously?
Our executive branch of government has turned into a hideous monster that twists laws into anything blunt and heavy enough to induce trauma at a whim. Our legislative branch fills their coffers from fat money and the overt belligerence of special interest lobbies.
The "public domain" is no longer a virtuous and ideological sphere of the wealth and greatness of man but a source of intelligence for the single most powerful and dangerous entity on the planet - the United States Department of Defense (followed closely by a compromised Congress that has, invariably, completely failed its charter)
No, the argument is not specifically whether or not the US should engage in surveillance of foreign countries rather it is an argument as to whether or not the US has failed its people and, more importantly, whether its people can retake the reigns and, once again, live the values that were once a righteous vindication on the value of a single man and the rights conferred to him simply by existing.
I sense a difficult path in the pursuit of happiness if my actions, words and movements are monitored. These are cages of minds and an oppression onto humanity. There is no just cause so great as to allow unfettered insight into the effects of every man.
But hey, I'm just me and that's how I sees it. To a certain degree, I comprehend the intricacies of defense and its myriad requirements I simply no longer understand what we're defending.
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Re: Actually there should be focus on both
However, I agree, this administration has continued and worsened both the present situation and the total damage to country.
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