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US Set to Use Spy Satellites on US Citizens
duerra writes "A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns. The plan is in the final stage of completion, according to a department official who requested anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about it. While some internal agencies have had access to spy satellite imagery for purposes such as assisting after a natural disaster, this would be the first time law-enforcement would be able to obtain a warrant and request access to satellite imagery."
Ehrm... You missed.
I'm waiting for a "-1 somepeoplejustshouldn'tgetmodprivileges" meta-moderation.
I am posting AC for reasons apparent. I'm not giving out classified, or doing any kind of whistle-blowing here, but please understand that there are reasons for things.
You can think I'm a cog somewhere in the machine, or that I'm just buying into the "party line", or even that I've been deceived by my own leaders, but understand this: We know what we're doing and if you think you can glean the reasons for things like spy satellites and other intel collection platforms from press releases, "leaks", "public information", and the other little tidbits that fall through the cracks into the public, you're dead wrong.
The fact that the person you quoted doesn't even understand that this country is a secular nation by appropriate mandate of it's consitution - and instead acts like it's a theocracy in his statement - disqualifies his opinion from any validity. At that point he becomes a Christian Supremacist.
Then his quote gets nutty - In conclusive his a christofascist conspiracy theorist nutback.
If you cannot keep politics out of your moderation remove yourself from the Mod Lottery.. NOW!
erg.. nutbag even
If you cannot keep politics out of your moderation remove yourself from the Mod Lottery.. NOW!
You actually believe Obama will do something about your privacy and freedom? ROFLMAO! You are so naive. Look at who voted this crap in? The Republicans don't have a majority in Congress, so you can't blame them this time, now can you?
The Republicans are bad enough, but the Democrats, though, are the worst type of nanny-statist, socialistic fascist assholes.
-- Will program for bandwidth
The democrat party is coming! They will reduce government, enforce free speech, and protect your rights!
That is unless you count the entitlements to pay off their traditional base, government nanny-state censorship a`la Tipper and Hillary, or consider constitutional gun ownership to be a right.
Oh, and if you are about to remind me that the US Supreme Court ruled that gun ownership isn't a constitutional right: they also ruled that black people were property.
Please don't try to paint the liberal agenda as the land of happy lollipop streets and cheese. They are just "energizing" their "base" by promising to hook them up at others expense. You know, like Hugo Chavez.
THL phish sticks