Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.
The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing.
The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States.
Other democracies - Britain and Israel, to name two - are well acquainted with such domestic security measures. But for the United States, the sum of these new activities represents a new level of governmental scrutiny.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/monitoring-america/1/
Even employment history is being collected. Think you are safe because you aren't a suspect? Think again.
Well, I for one hope that the agents assigned to my case are at least entertained by what they find.
And hey! Now I have my own captive audience!
I'm glad that you degenerates will finally be under the benevolent watchful eye of our masters in DC.
Quote from: East Coast Hipster on December 20, 2010, 03:38:48 PM
I'm glad that you degenerates will finally be under the benevolent watchful eye of our masters in DC.
Awwww that is so sweet! You thought we weren't all along..... :wink:
I feel safer by just reading about it.
It's Santa Claus. How else would he know if we are naughty or nice?
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Hey, Mr NSA man: Choke on a dick. Ima be a damn radical if I want to. Can't stop me.
What kind of activity are they on the watch for?
Quote from: Lord Glittersnatch on December 20, 2010, 05:38:06 PM
What kind of activity are they on the watch for?
pipe bomb TSA nuclear VX nerve gas Obama Carnivore PROMIS militia.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 20, 2010, 05:41:06 PM
Quote from: Lord Glittersnatch on December 20, 2010, 05:38:06 PM
What kind of activity are they on the watch for?
pipe bomb TSA nuclear VX nerve gas Obama Carnivore PROMIS militia.
Well, no trigger words there at all. :lulz:
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 20, 2010, 05:46:01 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 20, 2010, 05:41:06 PM
Quote from: Lord Glittersnatch on December 20, 2010, 05:38:06 PM
What kind of activity are they on the watch for?
pipe bomb TSA nuclear VX nerve gas Obama Carnivore PROMIS militia.
Well, no trigger words there at all. :lulz:
Fuck these geeks. I'm a "Bob"-damned American, and I'm gonna say what I please.
The surest way to guarantee a dictatorship is to be afraid of one.
I agree.
Didn't we have a longer list of code words?
And I've already seen my file :lulz:
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 20, 2010, 05:49:16 PM
The surest way to guarantee a dictatorship is to be afraid of one.
:mittens:
Newsfeed.....
Quote from: Charley Brown on December 20, 2010, 03:28:17 PM
Other democracies - Britain and Israel, to name two - are well acquainted with such domestic security measures. But for the United States, the sum of these new activities represents a new level of governmental scrutiny.
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/monitoring-america/1/
Probably a safe bet to add the Netherlands to that list as well. We got more phone taps than the USA. In absolute numbers.
All of you should be reading Antifascist Calling (http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/), if you're not already. The author has been following the NSA power grab for the past two years almost, and sources his work well.
Quote from: Cain on December 21, 2010, 04:46:05 PM
All of you should be reading Antifascist Calling (http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/), if you're not already. The author has been following the NSA power grab for the past two years almost, and sources his work well.
By clicking on that link will I be put on some kind of list?
Yes, anything that makes the state department's job harder is illegal unamerican.
Added to favs.
Quote from: Able on December 21, 2010, 06:51:08 PM
Yes, anything that makes the state department's job harder is illegal unamerican.
Absolutely. Because America wouldn't have it any other way. If you think about it, a good chunk of your workday goes to paying these assholes.
They spy on you, you pay them for it.
They wreck the economy, you give them bonuses.
They have ridiculous wars that nobody can seem to explain, you foot the bill.
If America didn't want this sort of shit, they wouldn't keep buying it.
Quote from: Lord Glittersnatch on December 21, 2010, 06:32:03 PM
Quote from: Cain on December 21, 2010, 04:46:05 PM
All of you should be reading Antifascist Calling (http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/), if you're not already. The author has been following the NSA power grab for the past two years almost, and sources his work well.
By clicking on that link will I be put on some kind of list?
Dude, you probably put yourself on that list a while ago.
I think Rhizome had an awesome rant along these lines btw.
"The cell phone was an item (of personal property) on (Diaz's) person at the time of his arrest and during the administrative processing at the police station," the justices wrote. "Because the cell phone was immediately associated with defendant's person, (police were) entitled to inspect its contents without a warrant."
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2011/01/court-cops-can-search-cell-phone-without-warrant.html
Can you password protect a smartphone?
Edit: And not have the smartphone company/cell carrier let the cops in for 20 bucks. I know Dell lets the cops in to encrypted hard drives if they asked nicely.
I think iPhones have a simple password lock
Quote from: The Poster With No Name on December 21, 2010, 04:46:05 PM
All of you should be reading Antifascist Calling (http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/), if you're not already. The author has been following the NSA power grab for the past two years almost, and sources his work well.
Bookmarked. Thanks. I've been looking for more places to get news besides the one I already use.
good link! subscribed