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sailingaway
09-27-2012, 07:44 PM
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/09/Screen-Shot-2012-09-27-at-1.40.40-PM-660x487.png

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/warrantless-surveillance-stats/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=twitterclickthru

Anti Federalist
09-27-2012, 08:40 PM
One Nation,

Under Surveillance,

With security and compliance for all.

Anti Federalist
09-28-2012, 11:02 AM
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Lucille
09-28-2012, 03:38 PM
At what point do Americans finally face the facts and drop all pretense that we are "the land of the free, home of the brave?" Only 1/3 oppose those GD drones flying and spying from sea to shining sea.

All Your Private Data Are Belong To Obama
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-28/all-your-private-data-belong-obama


...Remember this:


My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
...
I direct the Chief Technology Officer, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Administrator of General Services, to coordinate the development by appropriate executive departments and agencies, within 120 days, of recommendations for an Open Government Directive, to be issued by the Director of OMB, that instructs executive departments and agencies to take specific actions implementing the principles set forth in this memorandum. The independent agencies should comply with the Open Government Directive.

Barack Obama

Who knew that he was really telling the CTO to coordinate on the transparency and opepness of your emails.

Just-Released Documents Show ‘Huge Increase’ in Warrantless Surveillance
http://antiwar.com/blog/2012/09/28/just-released-documents-show-huge-increase-in-warrantless-surveillance/


http://antiwar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/email_and_internet_authorizations.jpg

http://antiwar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/people_affected1.jpg


...Pen register and trap and trace devices are powerfully invasive surveillance tools that were, twenty years ago, physical devices that attached to telephone lines in order to covertly record the incoming and outgoing numbers dialed. Today, no special equipment is required to record this information, as interception capabilities are built into phone companies’ call-routing hardware.

This news will be completely ignored by the network news outlets, so voters will by and large know nothing about it. It will not inform people’s voting decisions. But even if it did, the question again arises, as it was so elegantly put by The Atlantic‘s Conor Friedersdorf earlier this week, how much “evil” are lesser evil Obama voters willing to accept?

To that in bold, whose bright idea was that? Probably another "public-private partnership," as the fascists like to call fascism now.

Keith and stuff
09-28-2012, 04:36 PM
I guess this won't be enough to get the young people to not cast a vote for Obama?

Lucille
09-28-2012, 08:41 PM
I guess this won't be enough to get the young people to not cast a vote for Obama?

They don't care either.


Finally comes the youngest generation of voters (http://blog.lifecourse.com/2012/07/generations-and-the-2012-election-part-1/), the adult members of the MILLENNIAL GENERATION (born 1982-93, today age 18 to 29), comprising 18 percent of likely voters. (As yet, they have no national political leaders.) Twenty years ago, they were the special and fussed-over “Friends of Barney.” Today, they’re telling older Americans to share their toys and put a smile on their face. For Millennials, the team comes first: They are more likely than older voters to favor strong communities, urge consensus solutions, trust “big government,” and shrug at paranoia over privacy. ... They are the most likely to be optimistic about America’s long-term future.

Lucille
09-29-2012, 11:00 AM
Bump in dishonor of Big Brothah.