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Lessig Predicts Cyber 9/11 Event, Restrictive Laws
A number of readers are sending in links to a video from the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference last month, in which Lawrence Lessig recounts a conversation over dinner with Richard Clarke, the former government counter-terrorism czar. Remembering that the Patriot Act was dropped on Congress just 20 days after 9/11 — the Department of Justice had had it sitting in a drawer for years — Lessig asked Clarke if DoJ had a similar proposed law, an "i-Patriot Act," to drop in the event of a "cyber-9/11." Clarke responded, "Of course they do. And Vint Cerf won't like it." Lessig's anecdote begins at about 4:30 in the video.
About 6000 people die in the US every day, day in and day out. Some days are higher, some are lower.
Think about that when looking at 9/11 and considering what the fallout of it has done to this country.
From the standpoint of someone who knows a couple people who lost their lives that day, and has direct connections with people who lost loved ones that day, I will still stand here and say very rarely a day doesn't go by when it doesn't piss me off how people have used the events of that day to control populations and steal from the American people for an event that represented barely a 5% blip in US deaths that week.
How many people who died that day do you think would believe the deaths of several other Americans and perhaps a *hundred* Iraqis was worth their life? How many people that day would think the tattered wreck of our global standing and economy were worth it for vengence?
Get off your fucking high horse. Our country could use a giant dose of taking it lightly and maybe taking real things that are happening seriously for a change.
What modern "democracies" are, are government by media manipulation of the bottom two-thirds of society. Whoever controls the media controls the society. The minority of responsible, thoughtful citizens who do their research and understand the issues are irrelevant. The mob rules, and media rules the mobs.
Due to their oligarchic control of the media (about which they boast openly) Jews have established an effective shadow government in the United States, so it really doesn't matter who you vote for. We saw how quickly that REAL Americans like Kucinich and Paul were given the soviet airbrush treatment that erased their Presidential campaigns from the national consciousness. This oligarchic media control also helps to explain the massive political power of a Jewish political mafia called the Neocons within the Beltway.