Another day, another massive assault at the very core of personal privacy.
At least that is what the Washington Post is reporting today, as the latest in a seemingly endless collection of massive domestic spying networks is being hatched by US officials and is said to be the most sophisticated and the most ambitious yet.
According to the Post, the scheme is hatched by the FBI as an effort to convince every law enforcement agency in the country to act as what amounts to domestic spies, forwarding an endless collection of data on suspects and non-suspects alike into an enormous database to “fight terrorism.”
The goal is to have a comprehensive of list of every single American citizen ever perceived to be acting “suspiciously” by any police officer in the country, so the FBI can keep an eye on them in case they become radicalized somehow.
A number of officials and privacy advocates are already pointing out the database will inevitably be abused by the government, but given that every time popular outrage kills one of these programs a new, even worse one seems to crop up within the next few months, it remains to be seen how long they can fight what officials seem to determined to ram down our throats.
sooner or later, these guys will drown in their own chickenshit.
Only after they've murdered millions. History shows that all too clearly.
'The Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free' – What a joke…….fearful – aggressive – arrogant – passively accepting anything – terrorizing other nations – slaughtering people in video games drone attacks – self-righteous indignation that truth and facts should be revealed – incitement to assassination and extra-judicial murder by politicians – deeply in debt – unable to look after the poor, the sick, the old and the vulnerable – racist bigotry – undignified and intrusive TSA practices – craven press – gutless corporations – intolerant – conviction of superiority over all other nations – incapable of objective self analysis – the only nation capable of turning the word 'liberal' whose meaning is derived from 'liber' meaning 'free' into a term of hateful abuse – war losers [apart from Grenada of course] just why is it they are 'Proud to be American'? Mystifying
'The Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free' – a laughing stock and an object of ridicule
In other words "a crumbling empire"
KGB and Stasi didn't even come close to what the first African American president is doing to his own people. And still somebody thinks WikiLeaks is not needed??
He's a Kenyan American and if I were an African American I would stop calling him an African American, 1st because it rude and his conduct is an insult to MLK, Paul Robson, DuBois and other courageous African Americans, to numerous to count., over their 400 years of existence.
Where are all the 'progressives' who protested Bush's warrantless wiretapping, etc.?
Yes, good question. Then again where is everyone else who should know better?
Yep. The Big Brother project is going swell. Won't be long now before they install the cameras in our bedroom. That is, if they haven't already.
I can't decide if the Communists have won or the Nazis have won. Either way, our children and granchildren will wonder why we sold them down the river for fool's gold.
I wonder which is better: living in the West where you can't trust anyone, or living in the Middle East where you pretty much know who your enemies are.
I doesn't matter too much who won, because it obviously wasn't us.
Every police State needs domestic spying network(s), Mr.Adolf, Uncle Joe and lesser ones showed the way.
"…every time popular outrage kills one of these programs a new, even worse one seems to crop up within the next few months…"
Remember TIA? Total Information Awareness or sometimes called "Terrorism" Information Awareness – depending on whether you were pro or con using the tool. When Congress defunded Poindexter's toy did you really believe that they were really going to just shut it down? Silly Rabbit.
Meet the new Gestapo… so much more than the old one. I wonder, in this day and age of perks that someone will come up with the idea of giving informants "points" for ratting people out. Sort of a platinum card for snitches.
The first I'd report on would be the Justice Department, the CIA, The FBI and the Pentagon. Add the banksters and the criminal corporations.
We need to keep a close watch on these guys. They are getting to be as un-American you can get.
Domestic spying has been going on since Nathan Hale and the Palmer raids.
Relax and learn to love it.
Hey! Who's that pounding on my door? It's way after midnight!
Send me some poundcake – no raisins.
When is Obama going to be satisfied that we already have enough reasons to hate him?
He's making his list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice…
First thing a CONTRA does before invasion is make a hit list. A million dead ought to be a good start