This is only going to get worse until its stopped entirtely.
"So, there's still significant room for abuse in many states' programs, ones that will need to be closed at the local level."
Closed!!???!!
Hell, you can almost smell the carbon fumes from all the local boys burning the midnight oil trying to come up with the right words to alter their own laws in ways that make asset forfeiture the new Budget Funding Miracle of the Century.
Aint no way the Blue Boys are going to do without the awesome Reverse Robin Hood income they've all become accustomed to.
How else are they gonna buy all them shiny new military toys from ObamaRama MilSale... or send their kids to college, or get the wife that nifty mink coat....
It'll take a few more months, but you can bet your ass the Boys in Blue Unions will be lawyering up and getting legislation passed that will make today's Asset Forfeiture Programs look like Church Bake Sales.
No crook will willingly allow an easy mark to escape once they've been cornered and with the right laws in place, the entire public becomes the perfect eternal patsy.
When crooks write the laws, only citizens need fear the long arm of the law and its soldier-enforcers.
But you know, it just might be the straw that broke corruption's back. Or at least, gives it a back ache.
Not that I think citizens are any better equipped to turn down the millions in graft and lobbying bribes from Organized Crime and Corporate America that regularly feed the families of criminal career politicians, cuz they're not.
But in a world where only the assholes rise to the top of the food chain, because only assholes currently hold the high ground, it just might work to have regular citizens cutting into the gravy pot that passes for politics today.
Re: The Founding Fathers of the Union Should Smile At Their Handywork
"... needs to enjoy the freedoms they've been allowed to keep."
Actually, its not so much that We The People (and the rest of the world pretty much) have been allowed to keep some of their freedoms.
Its more along the lines of "enjoying the freedoms they still have left", because the crooks in power plan to eventually take away all of them.
Its like the frog in the pot of water. Bring it slowly to a boil and the frog just sits there and dies before it realizes the water has become deadly.
With humans, you can't just take away their freedoms, because then they rebel and kill their oppressors.
You need to create a "fear", or "threat" that convinces them to offer up their freedoms to the authorities in return for a promise of safety and security, but this method can only remove freedoms one or two at a time.
Some freedoms are simply more difficult to take away in this fashion, so there are still a few left that have not been offered up.
But, by taking them away only one or two at a time, people react exactly like the frog in water - unaware of the pending threat.
You can bet your last dollar however, that the authorities are working diligently day and night - (or at least their hired think-tanks are) - to come up with new ways and means to wrest those last few freedoms from We The People (and the rest of the world pretty much), as soon as possible.
You see, the only security that those in power actually seek, is security from consequences - they seek the ability to legally exploit the human race without fear of reprisal.
Their tool to accomplish this, is the tool that has always been used for exactly this purpose throughout human history.
Some smart cookie with money oughta start up a free exercise spa, where all of the cycle machines are hooked up to flywheels in the basement and the excess generated power is pushed backwards through the grid to elicit a monthly paycheck FROM the power companies.
Get enough of them going in a franchise and you'd be pulling megabux per month and getting paid by the people who normally take your money, while helping the earth by lowering the community's over-all electricity needs from the grid and helping everyone stay fit at the same time, for free.
Now this is exactly the kind of thing that is creating the driving force behind the removal of anonymity and free access to the web.
If it wasn't for the vast incomes the crooks in the halls of power were pulling in monthly from their gambling and porno sites, the web would have been ID-card-holders only, years ago.
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
Some day, far in the future, humanity will realize that this statement is true for ALL institutions, including political, religious, medical, academic, moral and security institutions.
Of course, by that time, there will be no such institutions feeding on human society, because people cannot realize this truth as long as such institutions exist.
"...you expect any less for a federal obstruction charge?"
I would agree to this, only if the people holding high office were also held to these same rules against obstruction. They are not.
Obstructing justice is now a major part of the job description of most elected officials, and federal employees, who are, as a rule, not held responsible for their actions, because its considered to be their duty, by the DOJ, the Whitehouse and the courts.
Its like the USG is at war with the US public and so any and all breaking of the law by members of the USG is acceptable and expected when dealing with the adversary and any twisting of the law in order to deal as much damage to members of the public as possible, is also seen as simply a necessary and patriotic part of the war effort by the member-soldiers of the government.
How often must the Thief steal before folks stop calling him a Guard.
"A sentence like this puts a massive chill over journalism and the First Amendment in general."
In other words, the whole gambit was a complete success.
And another judge earns his minion's yacht silver.
Chalk up another easy win for the forces of fascism.
Note one more event where the American Public's general reaction to being screwed over by its own rewritten laws, was, "Huh! What? errrr....."
Will America ever realize the hard lesson that the enemy, dressed as a friend, is still an enemy and that you will know him only by his actions and not by his words?
Tune in next week for more deception and subterfuge by the leaders of America. And the week after. And the week after that, and the following week, and...
You do realize that the members of the NSA, FBI, CIA, HLS, and their extra-national affiliates around the world scanning this comments page, have all just wet themselves reading your words - which point out that writing any string of words would be a criminal act under this legislation and thus, describes nicely the near-ultimate wet dream of any fascist....
That the creation and or publishing of any "unauthorized" literature, is automatically a major criminal act, punishable by maximum legal reaction.
This is of course only the for-runner legislation of the true ultimate wet dream laws of fascism...
That all unauthorized speech is automatically a major criminal act, punishable by maximum legal reaction.
Peasants need only labor for the state, sleep and eat, and need no voice or thought beyond that necessary to fulfilling the task assigned them by the state to insure the continuity of the state. That is the goal of fascism - that the state becomes a commercial operation owned and run by the ruling class and the peasants become the feedstock from which the wealth of the ruling class is derived.
This is the way life has been on earth for most of human history.
The fact that fascism always leads directly to dissolution of the nation in which it flourishes changes nothing, as fascists have no plan beyond draining a place of its wealth before moving on to greener pastures.
The resemblance to a virus, or the legendary vampires of Hollywood is telling.
The last thing the fascist owned state needs is uppity peasants discussing the fact - verbally or in writing - that the state is nothing more than a gang of lizard brained greedy millionaires mindlessly sucking the life out of the earth like fleas on a dog.
It would be lovely to perceive a future where the heads of tycoon CEOs, mob bosses, billionaire politicians, lawyers and their kin, could be seen adorning the pointy ends of pikes along the roads of a nation awakened from a nightmare, but all my limited fore-sight conjures up is empty streets.
Re: Re: We hold these truths to be self-evident. .
"List any of the objective's of the war on drugs, that has been successfully achieved?"
" A massive amount of money has been successfully diverted to large corporations and shady government agencies."
Proving that the "War On" Drugs has been and remains a tremendous success and that the "War On" process can be used for almost anything, from Terrorism to Poverty, to generate huge amounts of accountability-free revenue while having absolutely no real effect upon the particular subject of that particular "War On".
Five Eyes under the Microscope of Public Scrutiny!!
Wouldn't that be awesome!
The return of the Free Press!!
It literally staggers the mind to imagine what fantastic news stories might occur and what villainous misdeeds night be exposed and how many heinous villains might be incarcerated, were the forces of the Free Press, free to do their traditional jobs once again and report on the wrong-doings of the criminals inhabiting the halls of power.
I'd actually have to upgrade my expectation of complete social meltdown of western culture, to a mere 75% likely to self destruct before the year 2025.
"If you really wanted to disrupt or destroy a terrorist group..."
You stop bombing their cultural and social infrastructure into rubble and killing their men, and post-pubescent boys and raping their women and pre-pubescent children.
Rant Warning ============
Terrorists do not happen naturally, or due to religion or politics. Terrorists are manufactured through systematic violence and destruction, that results in a desire for revenge among the survivors, but is restricted by the lack of weaponry and funding necessary to exact such revenge on the super-power responsible for the violence and destruction.
The manufacturing of Terrorists is merely a short range business plan, with probable long range profit possibilities.
Terrorists are made from otherwise normal people who have been smashed into the stone age by Empiricists intent on profiteering and social engineering for fun and profit.
Originally, a terrorist was a man who had no means of revenge against the forces that have destroyed his home and family, save using his own body as a bomb and striking out against anything that remotely resembles, or had some association with those who killed his family, his home and his society.
Today, terrorists are well-funded and well trained armies of masked white mercenaries, created by corporate controlled governments, to instill fear in their own citizens, in order to wrest the maximum tax-based cash for phony anti-terrorist programs, that are really just funding pools for the corporate billionaires to feed from.
Corporate controlled Government is a for-profit business and politicians are the new managers and YOU are being managed.
A closer examination of the records - telephone and internet - in this case will likely reveal that Christopher Lee Cornell was led by the nose into his new religion by either the same crook looking to shorten his sentence - apparently a common employee type of the Feds these days - or by someone pretending to be a female and promising lurid sexual favors in return for Christopher's lip-service to a new god.
These manufactured terror scenarios usually seem to follow the same pattern - one that works very well, most of the time, to lure the weak minded into becoming poster boys for the federal government's Terrorist-under-every-bed Propaganda Programs, designed to instill the fear of The Islamic Bogeymen into the hearts and minds of Americans and to squeeze out every possible dime of tax money for the use of phony anti-terror programs - known internally as yacht funds.
In my opinion, the tremendous cost and manpower output needed to manufacture these phony terrorist plots is plain proof that real terrorists are difficult to find, if they exist at all.
Or the Cowboy Cops will petition the crooks in office locally to establish new laws for state and local police to carry on in exactly the same manner as before but without the cream going to the feds.
Considering that this would make the process even more lucrative for the city cops, I see it as the obvious solution to the financial problems the police will soon be facing without the old "you keep what you steal" laws.
After all, as you said, they will be facing budget shortfalls without the Reverse Robin-Hood revenue, so it will behoove their local politicians to write new legislation to insure the Cops get to keep the cash, houses, computers, boats, jewelry, clothing and cars they steal from the public, just like the old days and that the budget needs are fulfilled.
I think that you have just listed the 3 primary reasons why NO "GOVERNMENT" on earth wants to allow encryption to get into public hands.
1. Encryption enables people to talk to each other regardless of what their governments want.
2. Encryption enables the worlds population to converse with each other, without the interference of politicians and thus avoid wars.
3. Encryption enables the sharing of knowledge and information that lets people solve their own problems without having to rely on big government and big business.
There is absolutely no upside in any of that for the greedy control freaks that inhabit the halls of power, or the billionaires who see the world as their own private feedstock for personal unlimited aggrandizement.
Re: Re: To be honest or be dishonest, that is the question...
You're right of course. "Go back" was the wrong term.
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of not telling the public that any trade agreements are being negotiated anywhere, ever.
Do it all Harper's Canadian Style, behind the scenes with payoffs to all the media and any political opposition using tax payer's money.
By simply doing all these phony Free Trade deals entirely behind the scenes, with the public completely unaware that they are even taking place, the crooks can ratify their new legalized theft, extortion, and protection laws and start robbing the public legally in new and imaginative ways year after year and the public won't be able to say squat because they are totally unaware of how such laws even got created in the first place.
You know the drill - have the NSA DOS any "Unauthorized" website that posts anything relating to any "Trade Agreement" data ASAP, and spin the whole thing as "for the children", "for jobs", and "for the economy" on all the regular corporate BS NEWS nets if anyone does spill the beans to the public about an ongoing trade deal.
By using the paid-for corporate BS Media, they can then make sure the public believes that this one secret deal that was leaked, was an isolated event and none others are taking place. Then tell the sheep that that particular deal has been cancelled while simply renaming the agreement and carrying on in secret once again.
Today there is far too much public awareness of the process and the purpose behind the process, even though the general public is already kept in the dark about the actual text of the "negotiations" and the corporate (United States of Hollywood) authoring process that passes for lawmaking, until someone leaks some parts of the deal and the public gets partly into the loop.
By going full secret, Canadian Style, the world can be made into a better place for exploiting the sheep effortlessly and with guaranteed returns and with far fewer bumps and bruises along the way from interference by uppity peasants.
At this stage of the game, I would be utterly shocked to discover that the CIA HAD BEEN held accountable for any violation of the Constitution, or Law.
I assume the CIA, NSA, FBI and HLS have all been given the same sort of immunity from legal consequences that assassins are usually afforded by their government employers - a license to torture, murder, lie, cheat, steal, ruin people's lives, falsify documents and any other action they might need to perform from time to time, to "get the job done".
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This is only going to get worse until its stopped entirtely.
Closed!!???!!
Hell, you can almost smell the carbon fumes from all the local boys burning the midnight oil trying to come up with the right words to alter their own laws in ways that make asset forfeiture the new Budget Funding Miracle of the Century.
Aint no way the Blue Boys are going to do without the awesome Reverse Robin Hood income they've all become accustomed to.
How else are they gonna buy all them shiny new military toys from ObamaRama MilSale... or send their kids to college, or get the wife that nifty mink coat....
It'll take a few more months, but you can bet your ass the Boys in Blue Unions will be lawyering up and getting legislation passed that will make today's Asset Forfeiture Programs look like Church Bake Sales.
No crook will willingly allow an easy mark to escape once they've been cornered and with the right laws in place, the entire public becomes the perfect eternal patsy.
When crooks write the laws, only citizens need fear the long arm of the law and its soldier-enforcers.
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Integrity infiltrating corruption - cool idea!
Shit. I didn't see that coming.
But you know, it just might be the straw that broke corruption's back. Or at least, gives it a back ache.
Not that I think citizens are any better equipped to turn down the millions in graft and lobbying bribes from Organized Crime and Corporate America that regularly feed the families of criminal career politicians, cuz they're not.
But in a world where only the assholes rise to the top of the food chain, because only assholes currently hold the high ground, it just might work to have regular citizens cutting into the gravy pot that passes for politics today.
Certainly can't hurt any.
Two thumbs up.
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Re: The Founding Fathers of the Union Should Smile At Their Handywork
Actually, its not so much that We The People (and the rest of the world pretty much) have been allowed to keep some of their freedoms.
Its more along the lines of "enjoying the freedoms they still have left", because the crooks in power plan to eventually take away all of them.
Its like the frog in the pot of water. Bring it slowly to a boil and the frog just sits there and dies before it realizes the water has become deadly.
With humans, you can't just take away their freedoms, because then they rebel and kill their oppressors.
You need to create a "fear", or "threat" that convinces them to offer up their freedoms to the authorities in return for a promise of safety and security, but this method can only remove freedoms one or two at a time.
Some freedoms are simply more difficult to take away in this fashion, so there are still a few left that have not been offered up.
But, by taking them away only one or two at a time, people react exactly like the frog in water - unaware of the pending threat.
You can bet your last dollar however, that the authorities are working diligently day and night - (or at least their hired think-tanks are) - to come up with new ways and means to wrest those last few freedoms from We The People (and the rest of the world pretty much), as soon as possible.
You see, the only security that those in power actually seek, is security from consequences - they seek the ability to legally exploit the human race without fear of reprisal.
Their tool to accomplish this, is the tool that has always been used for exactly this purpose throughout human history.
The Law.
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silly ideas
Get enough of them going in a franchise and you'd be pulling megabux per month and getting paid by the people who normally take your money, while helping the earth by lowering the community's over-all electricity needs from the grid and helping everyone stay fit at the same time, for free.
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Re:
If it wasn't for the vast incomes the crooks in the halls of power were pulling in monthly from their gambling and porno sites, the web would have been ID-card-holders only, years ago.
Good work, BTW. :)
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The right man for the job.
Hmmmm.... I must have missed it!
When did those two jobs become separate occupations?
As far as I've seen over the last 2-3 years, "oversight" literally translates to "covering up crimes", when it comes to any aspect of the USG.
Apparently, Burr has already received his yacht and an unlimited supply of bimbos and cocaine.
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Wyrm Oroboros
Some day, far in the future, humanity will realize that this statement is true for ALL institutions, including political, religious, medical, academic, moral and security institutions.
Of course, by that time, there will be no such institutions feeding on human society, because people cannot realize this truth as long as such institutions exist.
What a nasty circle we have wrought.
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Re: I don't see the problem
I would agree to this, only if the people holding high office were also held to these same rules against obstruction. They are not.
Obstructing justice is now a major part of the job description of most elected officials, and federal employees, who are, as a rule, not held responsible for their actions, because its considered to be their duty, by the DOJ, the Whitehouse and the courts.
Its like the USG is at war with the US public and so any and all breaking of the law by members of the USG is acceptable and expected when dealing with the adversary and any twisting of the law in order to deal as much damage to members of the public as possible, is also seen as simply a necessary and patriotic part of the war effort by the member-soldiers of the government.
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On the post: Barrett Brown Sentenced To 63 Months In Jail For Daring To Do Journalism On Hacked Info
How often must the Thief steal before folks stop calling him a Guard.
In other words, the whole gambit was a complete success.
And another judge earns his minion's yacht silver.
Chalk up another easy win for the forces of fascism.
Note one more event where the American Public's general reaction to being screwed over by its own rewritten laws, was, "Huh! What? errrr....."
Will America ever realize the hard lesson that the enemy, dressed as a friend, is still an enemy and that you will know him only by his actions and not by his words?
Tune in next week for more deception and subterfuge by the leaders of America. And the week after. And the week after that, and the following week, and...
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Re: So that means..
That the creation and or publishing of any "unauthorized" literature, is automatically a major criminal act, punishable by maximum legal reaction.
This is of course only the for-runner legislation of the true ultimate wet dream laws of fascism...
That all unauthorized speech is automatically a major criminal act, punishable by maximum legal reaction.
Peasants need only labor for the state, sleep and eat, and need no voice or thought beyond that necessary to fulfilling the task assigned them by the state to insure the continuity of the state. That is the goal of fascism - that the state becomes a commercial operation owned and run by the ruling class and the peasants become the feedstock from which the wealth of the ruling class is derived.
This is the way life has been on earth for most of human history.
The fact that fascism always leads directly to dissolution of the nation in which it flourishes changes nothing, as fascists have no plan beyond draining a place of its wealth before moving on to greener pastures.
The resemblance to a virus, or the legendary vampires of Hollywood is telling.
The last thing the fascist owned state needs is uppity peasants discussing the fact - verbally or in writing - that the state is nothing more than a gang of lizard brained greedy millionaires mindlessly sucking the life out of the earth like fleas on a dog.
It would be lovely to perceive a future where the heads of tycoon CEOs, mob bosses, billionaire politicians, lawyers and their kin, could be seen adorning the pointy ends of pikes along the roads of a nation awakened from a nightmare, but all my limited fore-sight conjures up is empty streets.
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Re: Re: We hold these truths to be self-evident. .
" A massive amount of money has been successfully diverted to large corporations and shady government agencies."
Proving that the "War On" Drugs has been and remains a tremendous success and that the "War On" process can be used for almost anything, from Terrorism to Poverty, to generate huge amounts of accountability-free revenue while having absolutely no real effect upon the particular subject of that particular "War On".
A near perfect business plan.
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Fixing a small typo...
Ummm... shouldn't that read:
The program was renamed and its operation center relocated in September of 2013, just as the NY Times wrote about the program...
These programs never actually end. They just get hidden in another layer of secrecy.
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On the post: New Snowden Leak Reveals GCHQ Collected Emails Of Journalists At NYT, WaPo, Guardian, BBC And Elsewhere
Five Eyes under the Microscope of Public Scrutiny!!
The return of the Free Press!!
It literally staggers the mind to imagine what fantastic news stories might occur and what villainous misdeeds night be exposed and how many heinous villains might be incarcerated, were the forces of the Free Press, free to do their traditional jobs once again and report on the wrong-doings of the criminals inhabiting the halls of power.
I'd actually have to upgrade my expectation of complete social meltdown of western culture, to a mere 75% likely to self destruct before the year 2025.
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On the post: FBI Defuses Another Of Its Own Terrorist Plots; John Boehner Pretends It's Evidence That We Need To Renew The PATRIOT Act
Re:
You stop bombing their cultural and social infrastructure into rubble and killing their men, and post-pubescent boys and raping their women and pre-pubescent children.
Rant Warning
============
Terrorists do not happen naturally, or due to religion or politics. Terrorists are manufactured through systematic violence and destruction, that results in a desire for revenge among the survivors, but is restricted by the lack of weaponry and funding necessary to exact such revenge on the super-power responsible for the violence and destruction.
The manufacturing of Terrorists is merely a short range business plan, with probable long range profit possibilities.
Terrorists are made from otherwise normal people who have been smashed into the stone age by Empiricists intent on profiteering and social engineering for fun and profit.
Originally, a terrorist was a man who had no means of revenge against the forces that have destroyed his home and family, save using his own body as a bomb and striking out against anything that remotely resembles, or had some association with those who killed his family, his home and his society.
Today, terrorists are well-funded and well trained armies of masked white mercenaries, created by corporate controlled governments, to instill fear in their own citizens, in order to wrest the maximum tax-based cash for phony anti-terrorist programs, that are really just funding pools for the corporate billionaires to feed from.
Corporate controlled Government is a for-profit business and politicians are the new managers and YOU are being managed.
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Manufacturing Terror
These manufactured terror scenarios usually seem to follow the same pattern - one that works very well, most of the time, to lure the weak minded into becoming poster boys for the federal government's Terrorist-under-every-bed Propaganda Programs, designed to instill the fear of The Islamic Bogeymen into the hearts and minds of Americans and to squeeze out every possible dime of tax money for the use of phony anti-terror programs - known internally as yacht funds.
In my opinion, the tremendous cost and manpower output needed to manufacture these phony terrorist plots is plain proof that real terrorists are difficult to find, if they exist at all.
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Re: Should be fun
Considering that this would make the process even more lucrative for the city cops, I see it as the obvious solution to the financial problems the police will soon be facing without the old "you keep what you steal" laws.
After all, as you said, they will be facing budget shortfalls without the Reverse Robin-Hood revenue, so it will behoove their local politicians to write new legislation to insure the Cops get to keep the cash, houses, computers, boats, jewelry, clothing and cars they steal from the public, just like the old days and that the budget needs are fulfilled.
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Re: This has been going on for a while.
Do you have a link to some history on this:
"The Mafia itself was shielding people from the holy inquisition when it got started."
Would love to learn more on this topic.
Was that when they were called the Black Lantern or something similar?
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Re: Re:
1. Encryption enables people to talk to each other regardless of what their governments want.
2. Encryption enables the worlds population to converse with each other, without the interference of politicians and thus avoid wars.
3. Encryption enables the sharing of knowledge and information that lets people solve their own problems without having to rely on big government and big business.
There is absolutely no upside in any of that for the greedy control freaks that inhabit the halls of power, or the billionaires who see the world as their own private feedstock for personal unlimited aggrandizement.
Encryption must not be allowed into public hands.
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Re: Re: To be honest or be dishonest, that is the question...
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of not telling the public that any trade agreements are being negotiated anywhere, ever.
Do it all Harper's Canadian Style, behind the scenes with payoffs to all the media and any political opposition using tax payer's money.
By simply doing all these phony Free Trade deals entirely behind the scenes, with the public completely unaware that they are even taking place, the crooks can ratify their new legalized theft, extortion, and protection laws and start robbing the public legally in new and imaginative ways year after year and the public won't be able to say squat because they are totally unaware of how such laws even got created in the first place.
You know the drill - have the NSA DOS any "Unauthorized" website that posts anything relating to any "Trade Agreement" data ASAP, and spin the whole thing as "for the children", "for jobs", and "for the economy" on all the regular corporate BS NEWS nets if anyone does spill the beans to the public about an ongoing trade deal.
By using the paid-for corporate BS Media, they can then make sure the public believes that this one secret deal that was leaked, was an isolated event and none others are taking place. Then tell the sheep that that particular deal has been cancelled while simply renaming the agreement and carrying on in secret once again.
Today there is far too much public awareness of the process and the purpose behind the process, even though the general public is already kept in the dark about the actual text of the "negotiations" and the corporate (United States of Hollywood) authoring process that passes for lawmaking, until someone leaks some parts of the deal and the public gets partly into the loop.
By going full secret, Canadian Style, the world can be made into a better place for exploiting the sheep effortlessly and with guaranteed returns and with far fewer bumps and bruises along the way from interference by uppity peasants.
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Re:
I assume the CIA, NSA, FBI and HLS have all been given the same sort of immunity from legal consequences that assassins are usually afforded by their government employers - a license to torture, murder, lie, cheat, steal, ruin people's lives, falsify documents and any other action they might need to perform from time to time, to "get the job done".
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