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Three Lawmakers Ask For Enforcement Against Leak Sites
eldavojohn writes "You may recall the TSA demonstrating how tech-savvy it is by releasing a document with redactions intact. Now three Republican lawmakers are asking what's being done to prosecute those hosting the document (e.g. Cryptome and Wikileaks). In a letter to the DHS (PDF), Charles Dent (R-PA), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), and Peter T. King (R-NY) asked, 'How has [sic] the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration addressed the repeated reposting of this security manual to other websites, and what legal action, if any, can be taken to compel its removal?' And they asked if the DHS is 'considering issuing new regulations pursuant to its authority in Section 114 of Title 49, United States Code, and are criminal penalties necessary or desirable to ensure such information is not reposted in the future?' King is the representative who announcing a probe into Wikileaks after the half million 9/11 pager messages were released."
Corrupt Republicans, like usual, are trying to prevent their constituents from having the actual information about the farce of security that is the TSA. Corrupt republicans feel that security through stupidity is the best way for the country, they fully support the destruction of libertarian ideals and those who support freedom.
Liberals are for big government, and these types of government intrusions into the public and private spheres serve no purpose save to increase the size and power of the government. He isn't speaking as a conservative, but as a libertarian.
Currently, libertarians are attempting to regain control of the Republican Party, which used to be the more progressive of the two parties, with Democrats mostly coming from the south, and being filled with bigots and warmongers. During the time between 1970 and 1990, there was a change in that the bigots and warmongers jumped ship, and ran to the Republican Party, which was asserting itself as the dominant power after running on libertarian issues (Goldwater followed by Reagan). Reagan was corrupted by these people, and gave us the Republican party we have today, on filled with neoconservatives, with the word neoconservative being literal, those people used to be liberals, but the meanings got all twisted around.
The issues you mentioned are simply wedge issues that were used to separate the largely libertarian base of the United States into "liberals" and "conservatives", both of which campaign on one half of the good of society (with liberals pushing social freedom, and conservatives pushing economic freedom), but once in office, they instead focus on taking away rights and freedoms (with conservatives attacking social rights and liberals attacking economic freedoms). They are two sides of the same coin, both representing the deep pit of injustice and corruption that US politics has become.