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Marco Rubio Wants To Permanently Extend NSA Mass Surveillance (nationaljournal.com)
SonicSpike writes: Marco Rubio wants Congress to permanently extend the authorities governing several of the National Security Agency's controversial spying programs, including its mass surveillance of domestic phone records. The Florida Republican and 2016 presidential hopeful penned an op-ed on Tuesday condemning President Obama's counterterrorism policies and warning that the U.S. has not learned the "fundamental lessons of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001." Rubio called on Congress to permanently reauthorize core provisions of the post-9/11 USA Patriot Act, which are due to sunset on June 1 of this year and provide the intelligence community with much of its surveillance power. "This year, a new Republican majority in both houses of Congress will have to extend current authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and I urge my colleagues to consider a permanent extension of the counterterrorism tools our intelligence community relies on to keep the American people safe," Rubio wrote in a Fox News op-ed.
SO WHO CARES?
I don't remember one of the fundamental lessons of the 9/11 attacks being that we weren't watching everyone all the time without a warrant.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...
And not just a summary of summary of the op-ed.
No beer and no TV make Homer something something
He is the Federal Reserve's/Wallstreet NWO Cartel's primary candidate now. Be prepared for the sheep to be swayed.
If we should have learned anything from 9/11, it's that we should stop pushing terrible foreign policies on other nations. Also, stop meddling too much in their affairs. It is much easier to protect out nation by getting other countries to like us, instead of beating them into temporary submission.
Freedom is more important than safety. Privacy is a freedom that you are too willing to throw away. Please stop being such a pussy.
Thanks,
An American Citizen.
I hadn't read or heard much about this guy, but since he seems like he'll be the #3 between Cruz and Trump (who are both so unelectable it hurts) it's good to know that he's as awful a candidate as anyone else the Republicans have up.
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Mario will come back to the center once he gets the nomination. Career politician.
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It's time people started to accept this very important fact: being sellouts who want to sign away your rights is not a party issue.
They're all pretty much acting like it's better to live in fear in a surveillance state than it is to remember you can't "defend" freedoms by eliminating them.
Aren't these clowns all supposed to take an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution? Instead they're all deciding it doesn't apply.
Republicans, Democrats ... they're all happy to spy on everybody and act like it's normal.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
When you get goodies like warrantless searches, you never want to give them up. Like Ben Franklin said "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". Never were truer words spoken. Next we'll be using methods we condemned Germany and China for to "monitor for threats". From this respect, it's true We haven't learned from national or world history.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
I don't recall Obama vetoing any re-authorizations of the USA Patriot Act. Isn't this just Rubio saying, "I agree with George W. and Obama's policies, and I want them in place permanently (without that pesky sunset thing we renew every X months/years)?"
of the American Revolution.
Indeed. Our post WWII conduct with other countries was often extremely shameful. I termed my service as 'cleaning up the messes of our parents and grandparents'.
We should have a policy of conducting ourselves with honor - we make a deal, we keep it. We don't support people who are anti-ethical to our beliefs. Democracy isn't wrong, even if the population doesn't like us. Keep acting honorably and they'll eventually change their minds.
I don't read AC A human right
I fear that I will see in my lifetime the event that signifies the beginning of the end of the American Republic as Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon did for Rome's
Indeed. Our post WWII conduct with other countries was often extremely shameful.
Trust me .. it didn't start with WWII. Even Hawaii was a business deal framed as a military action.
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
but what the hell did the founders know?
While I agree with your sentiment in terms of how we should treat the other peoples of this planet, I don't believe the radical Muslim world's hate for the US and the West - and what they represent, for that matter - has anything to do with how the West has treated them.
I mean, come on. They attack and destroy girls' schools, just because they exist. They destroy irreplaceable historic monuments, just because they exist. What did either of those do to them to "earn" their wrath?
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Security lessons in the post 9/11 world: 1) Airline metal detection is worthless. 2) Espionage is more useful against Congress than against lone wolf terrorists. 3) It is very easy to use the threat of terrorism to get elected.
Also, throw in some bull about a 'new GOP dominated Senate' on the ridiculous belief that you will win, when the majority of polls continue to show the Democrats leading, and that the GOP would rather vote for crazy people like Trump and Cruz than elect a competent person.
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I'm pretty sure Rubio has a bigger issue with immigrants from Canada than he does the middle east right now.
The Florida Republican and 2016 presidential hopeful penned an op-ed on Tuesday condemning President Obama's counterterrorism policies...
I have it from a very good source that one of his aides actually penned that. Now, don't ask me how I know that, please don't ask...
After making him build the wall
Besides help Europe break the whole area up into countries that didn't make any sense from an ethnic perspective. The problems in the middle East are ancient but when a group can self organize and rule themselves they are less likely to lash out. We helped make geographical decisions that split tribes and force enemies to live together.
Before our intrusion these militant wackos would pop up and the rulers would crush them. Note there aren't any real rulers so the wackos get to run the region.
We need fewer fascists in charge of the government.
We discuss this topic quite frequently and much more passionately than most, and many other topics that can be considered related. I don't think it's far fetched to think that Slashdot is monitored. Shit, there may even be one among us. I want that to sound paranoid, but it would not exactly be a big job. No, I am afraid that does not sound paranoid. I suppose there are many arguments one could form that based on how mass surveillance works, looking at something so small on a very big internet is unlikely. To this I say do not let what sounds unlikely fool you.
Queue the jokes.
Oh, and fuck you NSA man.
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I saw this coming the moment the US enacted the "temporary" Patriot Act, and I've reminded people every time they extended it. Once the government has power, they never give it back. I can't find examples to quote (other than the 1st Rule of Acquisition), but I'm sure everyone can think of at least five cases in history where this pattern has been repeated.
The only sane course of action when governments try to enact legislation like this, for any reason, is to block it at every available opportunity. These laws never get repealed, and the "temporary" emergency laws always become permanent.
Fuck 9/11. History already taught me that governments never waste a good opportunity to grab power, that all emergency powers become permanent, and that no government, ever, can be trusted with these powers.
"Government is like fire; a handy servant, but a dangerous master." -- George Washington
The Fourth Amendment still needs that warrant.
Pushing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act into a domestic setting is not legal.
Just as the Church Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... found back in the mid 1970's
Using one finding, act, transit authority, policy, directive, annex authority, special procedures, executive order does not allow any US court to use color of law to get around the Fourth Amendment.
The US and others collected all with projects like BLARNEY, FAIRVIEW, PERFECTSTORM, STORMBREW, STELLARWIND, PRISM,.
Does collect it all work?
It works well to enrich contractors, offers great over time and lucrative new roles for the private sector. Renting the network collection tools as no bid contracts is also great for profits.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
https://xkcd.com/538/
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Distrust.
So while it might sound like a nice ideal, he's talking about trying to change something that is about as much a part of the human condition as living, breathing, and dying.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Anonymous Coward wants the 50 states to disband the Federal government and go their separate ways.
Those who destroy are gangsters or the goons took on that job to feed their families in the same way western soldiers kill as a job to feed their families.
They use Islam as an excuse in the same manner as Christianity was used to slaughter during the crusades.
They can do that because the Quran is very hard to understand and therefore easy to obfuscate : it's in ancient arabic, it's a mix of esoteric concepts with outdated social regulations from a time of extreme violence and constant warring when women were less than cattle.
The bible was in latin and was a re-written mix of esoteric concepts and social regulation collated from a time where animal sacrifice and slavery was common.
If I was president, I'd end the both the NSA and DHS, they don't provide anything to society except laughable and endless security theatre.
I'd then take all the NSA scientists who research math etc and put them to use doing the exact same thing to make the internet secure for EVERYONE, regardless of who you are (because I do recognize that there are indeed some parts of the NSA that actually do good, and could be rolled into organizations like NIST)
I honestly don't care if terrorists want to communicate anonymously in the dark with others of their ilk. Their ideologies cannot be fought through secret spying. Ideas can only be fought by competing ideas, and in this case, we are indeed in a war between Theocracy and Democracy.
The sooner honest people (especially liberals) realize this, the better
And, as for spying on our allies, we shouldn't be relying on spying to ensure we stay competitive, we should instead BE competitive by investing in our youth, training them to become the next Einsteins, Turings, and Newtons.
..can both go fuck themselves, sideways, with a rusty chainsaw.
End all NSA mass surveillance, now!
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Don't you just love it when some agency is savvy enough to abuse Slashdot to forward the political agenda of its clients?
Don't American politicians learn about basic civics anymore? What about the ideals upon which America was founded? Where's the reverence for principles such as "no unreasonable searches". Where's the determination for freedom that backs the "Don't Tread on Me" motto of the Gadsden flag? Have people like Rubio even stopped to wonder what the consequences of universal spying are? Does he think academically at all about these issues before he wants to impose his beliefs on everybody? Or is he just as pig-headed and overly-confident as he seems?
I do not want to live in a world where everything we think is entered into a database and profiled and analyzed. I don't know anybody except a handful in power who'd want that. People like Rubio who'd even suggest it are either evil or reprehensibly incompetent. Screw him.
Republicans who want bigger, more intrusive, more expensive government. And how will this bigger government be paid for? With higher taxes, thus showing tax and spend Republicans are no different than Democrats.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Please.
The current war between Democracy and Theocracy has nothing to do with foreign policy, and everything to do with a set of beliefs written in a book and ascribed to by millions of people.
Yes, ISIS only has 10-20k actual fighters on the grounds, but those are the tip of the iceberg of wrong-headed people who believe patently horrible things.
You just have to look at the numbers that support making Sharia the law of the land to see what a terribly bad place we as a world are in.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/07/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/
Terrorism may be the last reason we need deep surveillance. Look at what happens when we have video of cops in action. Suddenly it becomes evident that much of the negative information that we have had in the past was true about cops activities. Surveillance can increase our freedoms. I shudder to think how much crime can be detected if we really start applying technology to our daily lives. For example, people lie to get medical and life insurance and they even lie to their doctors. What if your doctor could easily view all the groceries you or your family purchases. The dope industry could also take a huge hit if electronic money becomes the standard. It becomes hard to buy dope as it shows as a strange expense on your debit or credit card, Tax evasion could be eliminated. Also, salaries could be scanned as a public service as some employers cheat on payrolls. And imagine car insurance if your actions while driving are recorded and automatically notify your insurance agency of speeding, running red lights, or mileage other than what you report at purchase time. Technology could eliminate most of the crime in America if we encourage surveillance and data mining for law enforcement. Even a requirement to carry a good, national ID that would trigger alerts if a person did not have a valid identity or failed to have their card with them at all times. How about auto facial recognition at ATM machines? The wrong person could never make a withdrawal. This issue is not a one- way issue. Our freedom could actually increase due to surveillance and data analysis. Perhaps we should embrace rather than resist it.
I came for the Republican bashing, but if we're honest with ourselves it's pretty clear almost every candidate on both sides would do the same thing. They may say they won't, but they'll still do it.
Here's a clue. Clinton gets to the twice as much Wall Street money. Wall Street firms have always been the Clinton's largest contributors. Now you have a clue.
Bonus:
Wall Street hasn't bought Cruz. The largest sector backing Cruz is real estate.
British diplomat Sir Mark Sykes, and the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, is who is to blame for much of this mess. He's the one who came up with the current "map" of the Middle East after the Ottoman Empire was defeated.
But assume we have Rubio's envisioned monitoring program in place. Could the attacks have been prevented? Doubtful, because everyone involved in country had a clean record and the chatter between 20 Middle Eastern guys would not have stood out as unusual.
After the fact, phone records could have helped to sort out what happened and identify accomplices still alive. But I don't think any of them would remain behind to collect the deposit on a rental van after they made that mistake once. So the same shit would go down. We'd just know who pwned us sooner.
Have gnu, will travel.
Girls schools are where girls learn to be independent women. That's too Western for many of the locals.
The guys blowing up the monuments are, by and large, westerners. Lots of French and Belgians, but also quite a few Brits and no small number of Americans. They are fighting in Syria and Iraq largely because the West has no use for young men who never went to college, and tends to be really hard on unemployed brown men. At least this way they can be more then a pothead.
All this said, I don't think there's a particularly easy solution for any of this. Supporting the destruction of Israel would help a bit, because the unsettled nature of Israeli borders causes problems everywhere in the region, but it's not gonna solve everything, and there are obvious moral issues there. Redrawing the borders sounds good when PhD idiots say it, but if it was actually as simple as un-drawing the map the WW1 Generation and Victorians hashed out why have there been more failures (ie: Somalia, Ethiopia including Eritrea, Senegambia, the United Arab Republic), then successes (Tanzania) when the locals try it?
Some magical economic policy that allowed us to a) employ all young men in jobs with $20k a year and benefits, b) provide sufficient economic aid to third-world countries to let them catch up to our level, without c) raising taxes would do the trick.
I'm extremely disappointed at the candidates for this election.
Trump is a shill that's working for the Clintons. He hopes to split the majority of conservatives so the Republican nominee will get 30% of the popular vote. The Donald, running as an independent, will get about 30% of the vote. Hillary will win the presidency with 40% or less of the vote. Trump is trying to purposefully engineer for this election what Ross Perot did by accident in the early 90's, which is how Bill Clinton got elected in the first place.
All the rest of the "Republican" candidates are RINOs. Rubio is a perfect example; he calls himself a Republican but he's no conservative. Conservatives value individual freedom, limited government, lower taxes, etc. Rubio is behaving like a big government liberal when he proposes permanent mass surveillance on everyone, something that everyone knows is illegal and unconstitutional.
I would like to say I can't wait to vote in my state's primary, but it really doesn't matter. I'm in the State of Washington in the pacific northwest, and we don't vote until May. By that time most of the candidates will have dropped out and there's a very real possibility that my choices will be reduced to Trump and one or two RINOs.
I have no optimism at all for the future of my country. There is little to no chance that our socialist healthcare system will be repealed and our capitalist free enterprise system will be allowed to function properly for once. There is little to no chance the fascist police state installed at our airports, train stations, court houses, football fields, and baseball stadiums will be dismantled. There is little to no chance that we will ever go back to being a free country.
I can't afford to hire lawyers and fight years-long battles in various courts to try to correct the corruption. Right now, without an income (and no prospects because I spent my entire adult life avoiding Microsoft technology but I live in the middle of Microsoft country), I can't afford much of anything. All I can do is vote. I vote every election, but I live in a county that's so liberal that it's flaming and wears bells on its toes. We have some of the highest taxes in the nation, businesses are leaving in droves, and the Governor insists that we need an income tax along with our sales tax. I just voted no in the special election to raise the property tax levies but I know it's going to pass.
Things are looking pretty bleak right now, thanks to the damage done by the liberals Clinton and Obama, but also by the Bushes who pretended to be Republicans for twelve years. Thanks to the current crop of losers running for president and the results of the Iowa caucuses, there's no reason to believe things will improve.
Rubio didn't say that. Here's what he said is a fundamental lesson to be learned:
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Syria, Yemen, and Libya are all examples of our failure to learn one of the fundamental lessons of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 -- that failed and failing states breed instability and are potential safe havens for terrorists who will eventually turn their attention toward us.
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Also, now that the mass surveillance of metadata is no longer legal and has theoretically stopped , Rubio also supports keeping the currently-legal intelligence programs. I disagree with him, but I'm not a liar so I'll be honest about where we disagree. The summary posted to Slashdot is a lie misquoting some spin.
That would imply that there are enough responsible Republicans left to raise taxes to pay for spending. No, the new Republican party just spends and lets deficits grow while arguing about how to cut taxes more. Both parties over-spend, they just spend it on different agendas.
German and Japanese POWs that were housed on American soil, I know of camps that were in Maine and Kansas, were not extended rights under the Constitution. If the Gitmo prisoners are POWs why would they be extended rights not extended to the WW2 POWs?
The Middle East has been a mess since long before the Sykes-Picot Agreement, granted that didn't help but is wasn't the start by any means. See the Crusades.
And then there's always "War is a Racket" by Marine Corp General and Commandant Smedly Butler. (Two Medal of Honor awards also). He was telling his story in the 1930s after the attempt to recruit him to run the Coup to depose FDR.
I think the hawkers of this isolationist ideal in foreign policy have a really short sighted view of the world and don't understand the real reasons why the USA is not viewed kindly in some places.
I don't think we are prepared to fully go isolationists or that we understand what that looks like. I think those that push this idea want their cake and eat it too. On one hand they will decry the so called abuses of our past interventions, but in their next breath will bitterly complain about us not taking actions to stop the massive waves of violence and death that would come if we went 100% hands off.
I also think we do stick our noses in places it doesn't belong and are fickle about what actions we do choose to make. Osama Bin Laden spoke of this fickle USA that would intervene one day to stop atrocities, then withdraw, leaving the locals to clean up the mess the next. Where the USA easily gets tired, looses it's resolve and goes away. He was right, we are driven by the news cycles and what's important to us now, doesn't matter next week, so that leads us to things like the Iraq war, where we went in, guns blazing with nearly 100% popular support after 9/11 to voting in some guy advocating we cut our losses and run, before the Iraqis where able to defend themselves. We depart, the situation falls apart as was expected, and now with the advent of ISIS we face a situation on the ground which is horrible for the people we liberated from Sadam. Yes it was and is our fault, and we all can agree on that regardless of if you think the war was wrong or if the premature departure was wrong.
Somewhere in all this there has got to be a balance between just not getting involved and being the world's policeman, between bombing the heck out of one group, arming another group or letting the world to it's own devices, regardless of how bad it looks.
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Just like Hillary...but as a bonus, Hillary wants a back door in encryption.
It IS the fundamental lesson of being the Republican candidate bought-and-paid-for by Mark Zuckerberg to do the bidding of Facebook.
The Democrats are perfectly willing to do the bidding of their silicon valley "partners" (there's quite a revolving door between Facebook/Apple/Google and the Obama admin) but to be truly safe, Zuck wants somebody on the other side to cover his bets. Marco is that guy. Zuck's phony Conservative PAC is pushing Rubio.
"... voting in some guy advocating we cut our losses and run, before the Iraqis where able to defend themselves."
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The withdrawal and its timeline were negotiated by the Bush Administration. The Iraqis wanted us out anyway and Obama, like Bush and all True-Blooded Americans®, wouldn't, in the event of an extension, consent to our troops being held accountable to Iraqi law enforcement and justice should they happen to break the law.
Besides, "cut our losses and run" reminds me of Reagan and Lebanon
The courts injected themselves into war, which the founders of the US never intended, but the nation's lawyers love (the lawyers' guild, aka the American Bar Association and all the nation's lawyers, get jobs and cash from mucking about in everything).
Traditionally, by international convention, prisoners caught on the battlefield are held in POW camps until the war is over. Under THOSE rules, it is a WAR CRIME to prosecute a combatant as a criminal - only spies can be tried, convicted and punished. A soldier who obeys the rules of war is not held to account for the war, his nation is. NOT trying a POW in court has been, for many decades, considered "best practice" and nearly all nations obeyed that rule. Only the worst nations on Earth violated this rule.
The courts in the US, having bent far Left, intervened during the Bush years and started pretending that enemy fighters caught on a battle field should be treated as criminals and tried in courts (with the obvious result that they be set free, given that no American soldier is going to properly collect forensic evidence and read miranda rights and round-up witnesses on a battlefield). The Bush admin pushed-back against the courts by holding the prisoners in Gitmo and saying to the courts, indirectly, "screw you, they are not in the US and are prisoners of war rather than civilian offenders, and thus none of your business". This outrages the political party of the nation's trial lawyers (the Democrats) and they made Gitmo into a cause. If they ever get their way and move battlefield captures into the courts they will set the precedent that will eventually lead to American prisoners in future wars being prosecuted as criminals, something currently an international war crime. Future POWs will be unlikely to be returned home after a war, since the new policy will be that any nation can try, convict, and punish captured soldiers under local laws.
You'll vote for Hillary, who is worse than Nixon on "openness" and every bit as bad as Rubio on spying.
At least with a turkey like Rubio, there's a chance that a FOIA request will unearth records of what spying is being done and what's being done with the info. Hillary has been hiding documents from proper legal access for decades. As first lady, she was repeatedly found to be hiding documents from the law (Rose Law Firm records, White House travel office records, Records of her health care policy activity, records of her access to FBI background check records on political opponents, etc). As Sec State, she setup private e-mail servers and hid her activities from congressional oversight, and from court subpoenas, and from FOIA requests. She appears to also have included her close aids in this to further hide stuff from the citizens and their representatives.
Dump on the Republicans all you want, but just admit that it's about butt sex, or drugs, or aborting kids etc and has NOTHING to do with privacy/spying/rule-of-law if you are going to support Hillary.
It's ok though, he's a Republican and a conservative, and really this is a means to an end for limiting government.
Slashdot has been used to push libertarian/conservative ideals for the past 8 years. Where the hell have you been?
All true, so why do we "cut and run" then when we KNOW that the mess we leave behind will cost those who are stuck there dearly?
Oh, and blaming Bush went out of style shortly after his successor took office in my book. Yea, there was a mess in Iraq we needed to clean up better, but at some point Obama made the choice to withdraw. The Iraqis where in no condition to dictate terms with the USA and obviously still needed our support so had Obama wanted to stay and "finish the job" or at least leave a stable Iraq, he easily could have. But he wanted to cut and run for political reasons at home, so many Iraqis died largely for political gain in the great ol' USA. The very kind of action OBL accused us of when he was alive.
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While I agree with your sentiment in terms of how we should treat the other peoples of this planet, I don't believe the radical Muslim world's hate for the US and the West - and what they represent, for that matter - has anything to do with how the West has treated them.
I mean, come on. They attack and destroy girls' schools, just because they exist. They destroy irreplaceable historic monuments, just because they exist. What did either of those do to them to "earn" their wrath?
You have to understand that Islam is an insecure religion. They cannot permit their men to see an inch of femaie flesh because they have no ability to resist temptation. They cannot permit their women out unaccompanied, since even if the women themselves can resist temptation, the men cannot be trusted with the women. They cannot permit the relics of dead religions to exist because the Faithful would fall down and worship them instead of Allah. It's almost like they think that their God and their religion are man-made artifacts with no real truth behind them.
If they had faith, they'd believe that Allah would defend them. As it is, they have Defenders of the Faith. And very intolerant ones, as one would expect when the faith itself is weak.
Rubbio clearly didn't learn the fundamental lesson of the Boston Marathon bombings: Mass surveillance does not work.
I don't care who gets elected they will find some way to allow the program to continue. If they can, they will expand it. NSA Mass Surveillance is a power grab, plain and simple. None of them have the guts to get rid of it because the moment they do, and there is any sort of attack no matter how small, that politician will have blood on their hands.
So it gets sold to the American public as something that is for our own good. Big brother to the rescue. Never mind that our government has blown billions of our tax dollars so far on this charade with little to nothing to show for it. If anything the attacks have increased, not decreased. But in typical government fashion, when something doesn't work throw money at it until it does. Meanwhile our freedoms continue to erode.
The whole thing just reminds me of those home alarm company commercials where they try to scare you into buying the alarm to keep away the "bad guys". You're better of just putting a sign on your lawn that says you have an alarm. Just as effective.
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In this election cycle it is like office space and he is Samir Na ... Na.. Na... Not going to be president..
Quite true, but their drawing lines on a map with zero regards to the actual ethnic populations is what has caused much of the current violence. Yet, I'm not sure if we had instead more "pure" countries made up of single religious sects would have turned out any better...it probably would have just resulted in the larger Sunni countries ethnically cleansing the smaller Shia countries years ago.
You are misusing the quote. https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-ben-franklin-really-said
Ted Cruz and Rand Paul both oppose mass government surveillance and want the government to get a warrant - just as our constitution dictates.
Rand Paul, however, has dropped out of the race.
Many of the other candidates have the same stance on this as Rubio - Christie, Bush, Kasich, and I believe (but I don't know 100%) Carson as well. Not sure where Carly Fiorina stands on it, I hear so very little about her because she doesn't tell advertisements on the networks the way Trump does.
If this issue is important to you, then there's really only one candidate left who is on the side of privacy - and that is really, really sad. It should be all of them.
Love sees no species.
but he can Veto the shit out of a lot of bad stuff. I'll take gridlock over whatever the hell Rubio is going to do any day. Some of us _don't_ want to watch the world burn...
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we had a VP who openly commuted them, and I don't mean Uncle Joe Biden.
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Somewhere in all this there has got to be a balance between just not getting involved and being the world's policeman, between bombing the heck out of one group, arming another group or letting the world to it's own devices,
Let me know when you figure that out.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
They are fighting in Syria and Iraq largely because the West has no use for young men who never went to college, and tends to be really hard on unemployed brown men. At least this way they can be more then a pothead.
Even this pothead who didn't go to college can see that your second quoted sentence means something other than, and opposite of, what you meant.
a socialist trying to give away free everything to anybody
Sanders is not trying to "give away" anything. Nobody who supports Sanders expects to get things for "free", either. He openly states that taxes will have to go up or other parts of the budget will have to be cut. However, Sanders supporters are intelligent enough to realize that these are - absolutely and without challenge - the best investments that the government can possibly make. Money spent in prisons is never recouped. Money spent on education is recouped on average 5-10 times over (and often much more than that). Money spent on war is almost all lost. Money spent on health care is almost always returned.
The only people who think that Sanders is going to "give away" anything for "free" are the people who hate him too much to bother listening to what he actually says.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Reality is that we have five candidates to choose from. If one is twice as bad as another, yes that's worth knowing.
Give Rubio some time to grow up and someday he may make a fine POTUS.
A large part of that came from the so-called peace process, where the USA installed a puppet government and crippled the Iraqi military.
It takes several decades to rebuilt a country but the USA loses interest after 5 - 15 years, in most cases. In the USA, peace is not good for business. Then there's the problem that other countries dislike the US hegemony and all attempts to transplant it to other countries are doomed to failure.
Who is behind Marc Rubio's campaign? Who pays for it all? Why, the International Jew...
Also got rid of the right to pursue happiness 100yrs ago
>In the United States, as late as the 1880s most States set the minimum age at 10-12, (in Delaware it was 7 in 1895).[8] Inspired by the "Maiden Tribute" female reformers in the US initiated their own campaign[9] which petitioned legislators to raise the legal minimum age to at least 16, with the ultimate goal to raise the age to 18. The campaign was successful, with almost all states raising the minimum age to 16-18 years by 1920.
>Also: see: Deuteronomy chapter 22 verses 28-29, hebrew allows men to rape girl children and keep them: thus man + girl is obviously fine. Feminists are commanded to be killed as anyone enticing others to follow another ruler/judge/god is to be killed as-per Deuteronomy. It is wonderful when this happens from time to time: celebrate)
The oath of the President is to defend the US Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic not to keep us safe at any cost.
When somebody states they intend to undermine the US Constitution then they are saying they intend to violate that oath before they even take it.
Therefore, he should be immediately disqualified from being president.
...my middle finger to Marco Rubio.
That's a sobering statement. By it's +5 moderation, it indicates a typical slashdot drone is a much weaker and more sniveling cunt than bernie sanders can imagine.
Or the more plausible explanation of the statement "getting other countries to like us" is that you ate still in school and being force fed liberal bullshit.
I blame myself for going to war for you pussy mother fuckers. Sorry to resort to Ad-hominem, it's the only way to make sure you shitheads understand that I think your entire line of bullshit deserves to be stuffed back up your ass.
You guys think that now that the government has this power that ANYONE will voluntarily relinquish it?
You think that it would not be blocked by any of the 3 branches?
You better get used to big brother,
cause he likes what he sees, the world for the taking when he's ready to squeeze. (Kansas, Point of no return album, Sparks off the tempest released in 1977)
So much for that small government thing.
Of course our conservative, corporate media will give him a pass on it. Just like they gave Reagan, and Bush, and Bush a pass on their spending, surveillance and huge government increases.
Yeah, that whole liberal media thing; it's a myth and had been since the late 70s.
I am tired of these false arguments of "When we invade, we can leave early or invade permanently". Truth is, US could have NOT invaded at all.
The excuses for the invasion were false, the international community did not support it, and the following interventions in the zone proved as desastrous: Lybia and Syria.
Now, the truth is that it was *never* about terrorism and security. Saudi Arabia had a greater part in the terrorist attacks, and it is still US pal. The fact is, both Hussein and Gaddafi were a threat to US financial dominance, specifically to the petrodollar and the use of the dollar and the Euro in international commerce:
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/01/06/new-hillary-emails-reveal-true-motive-for-libya-intervention/
The emails also indicate that they were aware that the attacks *worsened* the fight against terrorism (many of the "rebels" were, unlike the regimes, linked to AlQaeda).
Just follow the money
Here is the time machine link, for the FOIA request that was REMOVED from the site in the last 3 days (I could access it on Tuesday)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160109230627/https://www.foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_DecWebClearedMeta/31-C1/DOC_0C05779612/C05779612.pdf
Major General Smedley Butler never was Commandant of the Marine Corps. He was a very brave man, a great battlefield leader, and an exceptional Marine. Out of uniform he was a political crank that associated with communist affiliated labor unions and organizations, and worked to prevent US participation in World War 2.
I would be inclined to follow him anywhere on a battlefield, but nowhere near a voting booth.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
The short version: Don't want to worry about terrorism ? Quit bombing shit.
That's right, because if history teaches us anything, it is that refusing to ever use military forces leads to peace...
Well, either that or violent military repression at the hands of those that ARE willing to use it, I think you an I maybe confuse those two lessons sometimes...
You mean the fundamental lesson that dying in a terrorist attack is less likely than being struck by lightning? I bet Marco Rubio plays the lottery too
He did say that. And the following paragraph says this:
We also cannot afford to ignore another lesson of 9/11 and curtail intelligence gathering capabilities that have been legally and painstakingly established following those horrific attacks.
Somewhere in all this there has got to be a balance between just not getting involved and being the world's policeman, between bombing the heck out of one group, arming another group or letting the world to it's own devices,
Let me know when you figure that out.
Sure, I'll be running for President when I get to the point I can clearly explain it too..
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
ok, I'll vote for you
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
All labor unions at that time were considered de facto communist affiliated. Let's no kid ourselves about that. FDR's and his inner circle were considered communists by many.
Oh come on, of course failed and failing states breed instability and of course the US is actively destabilizing regions all over the world. Rubio knows that, we all know that unless we don't want to hear it, and the brainwash you quote is just sickening. "[N]o longer legal and has theoretically stopped"? You might not be a liar, but you are certainly naive.
Don't get me wrong, it would be nice if we could still see the world the way you do, but it takes an awful lot of ignoring facts to do so.
I hope I didn't brain my damage.
The dems are mostly the same as the republicans when it comes to this.
The only two candidates who seem to be against this bullshit are Rand and Bernie.
There is a difference between "considered communist by many" and actual Communists (orders from Moscow, the whole thing). Make no mistake, there were Communists working to infiltrate and organize the labor unions as well as actual communist run unions.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
"the secretary at MalwareBytes took a look at his source code and said it looked all good to them" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 18, 2015
My code went thru verification by Mr. Steven Burn of Malwarebytes' hpHosts
hpHosts Site Admin Mr. Steven Burn quoted:
"I've been asked to further clarify so for the record yes I've seen the code, and yes, it is safe."
FROM http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi...
(On my latest 9.0++ code engine above & from past versions -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
A competent coder & BEST security researcher I know of FROM THE BEST ANTIMALWARE THERE IS http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
NOT a secretary!
I don't give away work to be stolen OR misused like GOOGLE CHROME http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
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"won't demonstrate security of his product be exposing the source" - by Coren22 (1625475) on Wednesday November 18, 2015
Bullshit: 62 reputable sources + /. users say different:
Safe by 57 antivirus programs in 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
+
the 32-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
&
Per VirScan (installer too)-> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
MalwareBytes' hpHosts Admin (MalwareBytes employee) hosts & recommends it -> http://hosts-file.net/?s=Downl... & MalwareBytes = BEST antivirus per this VERY recent testing of them all http://www.av-test.org/en/news...
APK
P.S.=> Eat your words, scumbag:
Tell us about AD + DNS too while you're @ it & how you said I said not to run DNS when I use it myself & said to NOT use external to network DNS with AD http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
OR
About how my program NEEDS admin privelege to update too (& it doesn't http://slashdot.org/comments.p... )
LOL... fool - 'eat your words' on ALL those accounts chump!
... apk
I guess it sucks to be a terrorist. Somebody who's willing to die for Allah and a bunch of promised perpetual virgins should fear little from living a long life in a tropical facility with three good meals a day, full medical care, access to books movies music and sports, and the fellowship of like-minded maniacs...... and THEN getting to meet Allah and the virgins
The basic idea of the rules of war is that combatants who operate within them, thus doing less harm to the innocent, are rewarded with certain protections. There is simply no way that those who refuse to wage war under those rules (including wearing uniforms of a combatant nation) deserve no such protections. This is the sort of basic concept that unprincipled people steeped in the legal profession can no longer accept once they have flushed all the common sense from their brains and made everything into an argument they'd be perfectly willing to argue either side of.
"you are stealing other people's work in your code" - by Coren22 (1625475)
I don't steal (you project YOU do). I write my own code (you don't) & use public data to protect + speed up users.
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"You have yet to submit to a code review from anyone but your friend. No, I don't trust that" - by Coren22 (1625475)
A seasoned security pro & competent coder reviewed my work as safe & IT'S WHAT HE DOES (unlike you). He can't "play friends": It's his site & reputation.
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"You are terrified someone will steal your software if you publish the source code." - by Coren22 (1625475)
I don't give source away W/ GOOD REASON (Google's mistake w/ CHROME) -> http://it.slashdot.org/story/1...
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"You have yet to address the issue of name resolution performance of anything not found in your hosts file. This is a serious issue when the hosts file is so large" - by Coren22 (1625475)
Placing users' FAVORITE SITES where they spend 95++% of their time online @ TOP of hosts files cached in LOCAL RAM gets them to sites FASTER & MORE RELIABLY than a more-than-potentially REDIRECT POISONED DNS SERVER (99.999% of ISP DNS aren't patched vs. the kaminsky flaw, or DNS amp attacks).
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"DNS outperforms your hosts file solution several fold" - by Coren22 (1625475)
No it doesn't (see above) - & DNS outperforms hosts in GOING DOWN (does a lot) OR poisoning users via redirect poisonings (DNS amp attacks = another).
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"so why not just run your own DNS server? Oh, resources eh?" - by Coren22 (1625475)
More resource consumption + moving parts complexity + POWER USE doesn't = a GOOD solution vs. hosts by using redirect poisoning/DNS amp attack exploitable DNS w/ only a few systems @ home.
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"But you have no problem running 100k copies of the hosts file in a domain" - by Coren22 (1625475)
It works easily migrated by central admins via scripts or chronjobs/scheduled tasks w/ less moving parts complexity, room for exploit & breakdown, OR power usage.
APK
P.S.=> You FAIL menial... apk