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Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority
An anonymous reader writes "The White House plans to deliver a bill to Congress next year that will require Internet-based communication services that use encryption to be capable of decrypting messages to comply with federal wiretap orders. The bill will go beyond CALEA to apply to services such as Blackberry email. Even though RIM has stated that it does not currently have an ability to decrypt messages via a master key or back door, the bill may require them to. Regarding this development, James Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology commented on the proposal, saying, 'They basically want to turn back the clock and make Internet services function the way that the telephone system used to function.'"
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Yep, there are two things which will signal the end has come to the US republic, hyperinflation and price controls. Hyper inflation has already started to a degree, we can't even afford to make our coins out of silver anymore or gold and even the penny/nickle cost more to make than they are worth! (Even the post 1982 Zinc cents which contain little copper still cost more than they are worth) When it becomes clear that the US economy is in a state of hyperinflation the next thing that will happen is price controls which will be widely ignored or protested, expect to see farmers setting their crops on fire, gas stations shutting down and people bartering with gold/silver/food/gas/etc once all this is done, people will use foreign currency for a while (Canadian near Canada, Mexican near Mexico) until the US government makes new currency that is tied to either the gold/silver standard and the cycle will repeat.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Well maybe this is some sort of gift to the Chinese and other foreign entities. The US will less the burden of espionage in exchange for continued debt purchases.
People assume that all communisms must be exactly like China/Russia, and that's simply not true in the slightest
Right, it's not true in the slightest that they must be, only that in every case, everywhere, they always have turned out that way, and in every case still observable, continue to loudly proclaim that they want to be, and take actions specifically to be. The only thing of note are the number of glassy-eyed college students who swear that the only reason communism keeps turning out so rottenly is that they, personally, the smartest people in the world, haven't yet had a chance to run the show and centrally manage communism the way that they, personally know it must be run. And of course, they also blame all of those pesky people who don't want to be slaves to a totalitarian regime for spoiling the idyllic image of communinism in the media. Why, if it weren't for those evil people who think that maybe if they're willing to work more hours in a day or risk something to better their own circumstances or provide something more for their families, that the basic appeal of "from each according to their ability" wouldn't keep having, decade after decade, such a sinister ring to it.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
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Why are you letting these clowns ruin our country?
Now everyone can see Russia from their house!
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