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Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE
An anonymous reader writes "FBI agents today arrested Steven Rambam, the owner of a company that bills itself as the largest privately held online investigative service in the United States, according to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog. From the story: 'Rambam was arrested this afternoon by FBI agents just moments before he was to lead a panel discussion on privacy here at the HOPE hacker conference in New York City. Rambam and three other panelists were to discuss how they dug up -- in just 4.5 hours of searching private and public databases -- more than 500 pages worth of data on HOPE attendee Rick Dakan, who agreed to be the guinea pig for the project.'"
Guess you're out of the loop, guy, the feebs of the FBI aren't responsible to the American public, only to Terror Czar Gonzales of the DOJ and the neocons (and perhaps Bill Crystal and Richard Perle). The Total Information Awareness is only allowed to be accessed by the bad guys, not the good guys.... (do you think the FBI will ever do a criminal investigation of 9/11/01????).
OK, wise a**, so I spelled his name wrong: it should read Bill Cristal, consider me chastised....I just can't remember all those neocon, draft-dodgers'names....
Don't be a fruitcake. Given the present administration, if you don't presume they're violating civil liberties to the fullest extent possible shy of tipping over to police state, then you're a fool. Personally, if I heard of something this administration did that was right, I'd think it a hoax. Note: this post is not humor.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Emmanuel Goldstein was modeled after Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky was a nasty person, one who belived in the same sort of oppression and state-terrorism as V.I.Lenin. He didn't survive Stalinism, though, so became an un-person.
It's amazing the complicated dance that many young people are led through to prevent them understanding that Orwell's '1984' is a direct indictment of Stalinism and Soviet Communism. It's almost as if there was a concerted effort made by those who revere 'Communism/socialism' in theory.