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TIA Project to End
Marnhinn writes "MSNBC is reporting that the Terrorism Spying Project (also known as TIA) is dead. The government is cancelling most of the project and changing the rest to focus on people outside the United States." TIA had been on death's door for a while, but now it's finally official. Some of the programs will still be around, however, they will just be shifted over to different departments.
MSNBC, firstly, is not a trusty news source. They have their own agenda, and I for one think it's absolute bullshit.
With that said, they are restructuring, not eliminating, the program. America's had black op's since the turn of the century, it's just now we have black op's teams in every town police department (they're called swat teams btw) and they have the right to do just about anything they want to you. Just be glad most are incompetant and poorly equiped. They know we don't like the idea and they think if they go farther underground and don't announce their programs so proudly we won't notice.
TIA goes away, something else takes it's place. The goverment has already been engauging in black op's against it's own people and there's ample evidence of that. More often than not, they'll break into someone's house and shoot a poor guy full of holes for sitting up in their bed (or they'll claim they tried to shoot first, plant a gun, etc). If you've read any cia manuals on the subject you'd get a good idea of how they engauge in black op's against people and how a TIA system would be able to find possible ursurpers/targets. All of these manuals, handily enough, are available on p2p apps (they are useful for more than music and pr0n you know).
They've been clamping down and in some cases outright killing ufo crazies who aren't so crazy, high art makers are getting screwed as well. Ex-military nuts who eat rations and have plenty of weapons are having all of those weapons confiscated overnight, with the nuts being thrown into prison or descretly eliminated or, better yet, thrown into insane asylums since they can't charge him with a crime. Same goes for anyone with a record of having excellent computer skills that may have the skills to potentially compromise sensative files in goverment databases.
In otherwords, anyone who's a threat by themselves is being eliminated without the news media picking up on it. All the media we get in the US is owned either by MSNBC, General Electric, Aol Time Warner, or 1 other I can't remember the name of. They all own stock in eachother, anlthough AOL Time Warner will occasionally publish a story about, for example, GE's frankencrops being picketed in france. We've got a lot of smaller publications on the internet, thankfully, and there's still a number of local newspapers around, but still, a good 90% of the media is owned and operated by these corperations which means we don't get the information that really matters. Goverment is going to spy on it's citizenry? Who cares, Briteny spears' new album has sold more copys than any other in history!!!
Call me crazy, it keeps me on my toes. It's going to be interesting to see if the US goverment can pull this off but somehow I don't think they'll be able to do it. If 50 million americans can pull together to support the do not call list, they can do the same to screw the goverment. People are not in general as stupid as the US school system makes us out to be.
Candy-Coated Knowledge
"The conferees agree with the Senate position which eliminates funding for the Terrorism Information Awareness program within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency," the conference report said in a section Wyden released. "The conferees are concerned about the activities of the Information Awareness Office and direct that the office be terminated immediately."...