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  1. Re:Is Congress mad at Slashdot/The Web? by 7-Vodka · · Score: 1 · on New Cyber Security Bills Open Door To Gov't, Corporate Abuse

    Here's something to get you started. It took me a long time to find these and that is why I rarely take the time to search for things for people who really should be making the effort to inform themselves.

    Protesting is now a felony
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SGWH3kirzg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_SXcch1nw0

    Martial law is both sort of here and can be declared without any emergency
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myPENDAJdE0
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kslFCUGSR1o

    habias corpus is history
    due process is history, apparently just having any kind of process is now due process
    The US government claims the right to assassinate any of it's citizens, anywhere on the planet at any time of their chosing
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWApGqE_T-k
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ThanSzG_w
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2EynpMPFOs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gstBozWfhQ
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iP-6qCzJ_w
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ciWWok1SA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHjH3Jno6k
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIawimcXGmU

    The executive branch claims they no longer need congress' approval on any war related matters, they would rather just take orders from the UN
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSzZAOQnYFI

    The "TSA" now has roving checkpoints on roads and transportation hubs within the US
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KLp4aoOq0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRgxH_42AJk

    elections are openly stolen and not covered by mainstream media
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKe0dxBJy1A
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_brWibusrf8
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgMQmfOGhQs

    Mainstream media is completely controlled now by crony capitalists and especially intelligence services, that takeover started in the 60's
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1E7s7XaV7E
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7rRmkJzWuw
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaQVX30ginQ
    http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NklKE-0CNcs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQhEBCWMe44
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjk6bJhywoM

    The faction of power that killed JFK has been in power every since, making every effort to become supreme leaders
    http://www.youtube

  2. Re:cue 100% of comments... by FuckingNickName · · Score: 1 · on Police Chief Teaches Parents To Keylog Kids

    Wait, what? Even if most people disagreed with it, that wouldn't necessarily mean that they'd protest it. In fact, more often than not, people do absolutely nothing.

    This is a matter for philosophical debate, but I consider going along with something when there are many alternatives as agreeing with it in every meaningful sense.

    There are various ways you can not go along with government monitoring other than by mass civil disobedience - for example, you could refuse to get a passport; you can refuse to drive; you can avoid use of credit cards; you can accept payment in cash and not open bank accounts; you can walk around with a basic disguise; you can encrypt all communication and try to obscure source/destination (not just on the Internet); etc. But if at any point you say, "OK doing all this is too much of a hassle - I want a proper job so I can have a more comfortable place to live and that means accepting the whole tax/bank account thing," you are agreeing that the government's offer is better than the alternatives.

    Read this essay. Rulers don't exist through a small minority of force, but through a majority of consent. And taking away that consent would very quickly cause the power to crumble.

  3. Re:this is true by zogger · · Score: 3, Interesting · on ISP Owner Who Fought FBI Spying Freed From Gag Order

    that site is OK. Google around, do your own research. Here, I found this just searching for that title in quotes:

    http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html

    Now think about modern day "embedded reporters". They won't be embedded very long if they don't pump out the official party line. That's just as corrupt, IMO. And if they aren't embedded, they just kill them, you must have seen that video of the apache video game gunner wasting those reporters and the civilians who stopped to help them. That's what militaries do to non tame reporters now, kill them if they feel like it. All belligerent/aggressive/totalitarian nations do it to reporters. You are on the payroll sub rosa or even above board, parrot the party line or disseminate the "big lie" disinformation, or you are a target they will get around to eventually if they feel like it, chose one.

    Here ya go, another

    http://en.rsf.org/

  4. Re:Two Words: "Attempted Murder" by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 1 · on Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy'

    Do you think somebody who tried to kill you but muffed the job should be let free to take another stab at it? Do you think somebody who tried to play an encrypted DVD on Linux but muffed the job should be free to take another stab at it?

    Or instead should he have to forfeit the DVD and all others in his possession, his computer, all its peripherals, his computer desk, his house, the car he used to transport the computer to his home, and be incarcerated for years, and if he ever manages to gain employment again (likely barred from contact with any computing device for a decade after release) have his wages garnished to pay restitution to the movie studio for damages resulting from his failed attempt to play the disk on unauthorized hardware? (Note that everything he could have sold to pay that restitution has already been seized, forfeited, and destroyed.)

    We're talking about forfeiture of the kind used in drug law enforcement. This is not a tool that needs to be "harmonized" (defined as "to maximize harm"?) to copyright infringement.

    Hey, how about criminally prosecuting everyone who "attempted" to post the AACS processing key to Digg had this bill been law? I'm sure there would have been plenty of records to seize to document and track down each person.

    We're rapidly becoming a nation where enough information is gathered on every electronic transaction to allow for total enforcement of every law, including the ones you don't realize you're breaking every day.
  5. Re:Anyone else find it odd... by sgt_doom · · Score: 1 · on The Web as Political Weapon
    You numerically deficient, dude? Barney Frank's situation involved a legal-age adult, Foley's ch*ckensh*t stuff is called pedophilia, dig?

    And as far as the news goes, RT(his)FA and please RT(his)FA.

  6. mod me to hell, laugh or ignore me, i dont care by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on U.S. House Votes to Extend Patriot Act

    A poster farther up asks "how many tin foil hat types think theres a connection with today's bombings"... All things considered, I find the coincidence of today's bombings somewhat disturbing. If history is to be considered, then there is good reason to question whether or not there is a connection.

    How much farther does this idiocy have to go before the proles wake up. Aside from a new and improved Asshole Act, I wonder what monstrous retaliation awaits the next targets of our country's arrogant and foolhardy wrath.

    If knowledge is power, then ignorance must be impotence. So I beg you to do what you can in that regard, at least. Share the knowledge. Encourage the ideals. Stand by your neighbors. Voice your opinion. Be disobedient if you must.

    Need some red pills for your trapped friends and family? Perhaps these will help:

    The Law, Frederic Bastiat http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

    No Treason, by Lysander Spooner http://www.lysanderspooner.org/notreason.htm

    An Essay on the Trial by Jury, by Lysander Spooner http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1201

    Politics and the English Language, by George Orwell http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm

    The Declaration of Independence http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.h tml

    Civil Disobedience http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/civ.dis.html

    Common Sense, by Thomas Paine http://www.bartleby.com/133/

    Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Ettiene de la Boetie http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/laboetie.html

    The Discovery of Freedom, Rose Wilder Lane http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Wilder_Lane

    Law of Nations, Vattel http://www.constitution.org/vattel/vattel.htm

    Best luck to us all.

    C

  7. Re:There's already an EXCELLENT sci-fi book about by TractorBarry · · Score: 1 · on Conquering the LaGrange Points?

    Well even better there appears to be a version online (I haven't done a thorough check but a couple of glances at random chapters seem to indicate it's all there)

    So cheapskates fire up yer web bruiser and head on over to: Dis a place for a right good read :)