Let me me preface this by saying I am a card carrying lover of the United States and the rights & liberties we enjoy as citizens of it.
Although, sadly, I am seeing more and more of those liberties and rights being violated under the guise of "National Security". Any country or state for that matter, in my opinion, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.
If you want to see what the Good Ol' U.S. of A. could be turning into just watch the movie V for Vendetta or read George Orwell's 1984 written in 1948 by the way.
The NSA and other alphabet agencies seem to be taking their cues from the Committee for State Security otherwise known as the Cold War Soviet Union's KGB.
The KGB was known for 'Supressing Ideoloical Subversives' or in other words those with thoughts and ideas that are not in line with what the Gov't wants.
Leonid Brezhnev, and those who came before and after him, ordered the State and KGB to actively perform routine house searches, rifle through trash, to seize documents, listen in on phone calls, and if it had existed then I am sure he would have been nosing around in our e-mails, and other private communications and he also had the KGB on continual monitoring of dissidents and residents. Sound eerily familiar?
I am sure if you do your reading on the KGB and compare it to current U.S. Policies and Practices you will find quite a few similarities.
As you know from my previous posts concerning Surveillance Devices in our home, Increased Surveillance in The U.S., & Florida, Arizona, and The Police State know that bit by bit our civil liberties and rights are being taken away right under our noses.
This piece has been kicking around in my head for a while now, and due to a recent article I read on Yahoo today, 14 June, 2011 concerning how the F.B.I. has granted itself, with no oversight whatsoever, new abilities and powers I thought it was time to emerge from mere thought into words of black and white.
The article which can be read here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110613/ts_atlantic/newpowersfbijustgranteditself38763
The above states that the Feebs have given themselves 'more autonomy than ever to conduct low-level searches without a paper trail.'
Example 1) Undocumented Database Searches - Under the new rules, agents will be allowed to search such databases without making a record about their decision, according to the FBI's General Counsel it is too cumbersome to require agents to open formal inquiries before running quick checks. Or for that matter it must be too much of a hassle to bother with the 4th Amendment.
Example 2) Lie Detector Tests (AKA Psychological Stress Evaluator Tests) Under current rules Agents can't administer a Lie-Detector test until they open a 'Preliminary Investigation,' which in turn requires a factual basis for wrongdoing.
Well, Gosh fellow citizen, they need actual evidence that you are guilty of something before they, the mighty F.B.I., can poke their nose into your personal business. Sure sounds like a good idea to me, what about you?
The new rules will allow Agents to use Lie-Detector tests not just on those suspected of criminal activity, but also on potential informants, and from the way it sounds to me, whoever they feel like as long as their investigation is considered an 'Assessment'.
Example 3) Trash Searches – Agents will be able to search the trash of a 'potential informant', or your average Joe Blow as part of an 'assessment'. “Agents have asked for that power in part because they want the ability to use information found in a subject's trash to put pressure on that person to assist the government in the investigation of other people.” The F.B.I. General Counsel said information gathered that way could be useful for other reasons. Apparently like Nazi Germany and the former USSR our Gov't wants We The People to turn into snitches on our friends, neighbors, co-workers, and more than likely our families.
Maybe as with the old Soviet Union to cause neighbor to snitch on neighbor for personal gain or favor and then the Gov't could wrongfully imprison or persecute/prosecute those that they feel are a threat to their agenda.
Remimds me of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, and the
Red Scares/ McCarthyism of the 1950's and 1960's.
Example 4) Surveillance Squads - The current guide stipulates that these highly trained squads can only be used on a target once during an assessment. The new rules would allow them to be used multiple times, but keep in place limits on the duration of physical surveillance. Read my article on Increased Surveillance in the U.S.
In the context of preventing governmental intrusions into personal life, Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the writers of the U.S. Constitution conferred:
The right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed, must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
In other words the U.S. Gov't is in violation of the 4th Amendment every time they utilize any of the above, in what, We The People, feel is an unauthorized intrusion into our personal lives and business.
How about our trash. There is a reason why trash bags are, black, green, or brown, because even with our garbage we expect some measure of privacy.
Most of us do not set our cans on the street, but on our lawn or driveway next to the street. Which means it is still on private property and not public lands. It is not as if there isn't the technology for clear garbage bags for use in our homes. We see them in offices everyday.
I think a judge in a Florida appellate court said it well:
"In my view, a homeowner, upon placing items in a closed garbage container and placing the container in a position on his property where the container can be conveniently removed by authorized trash collectors, is entitled to reasonably expect that the container and the trash therein will be removed from his property only by those authorized to do so, and that such trash will be disposed of in the manner provided by ordinance or private contract. By sealing the containers in a secure manner and placing the containers on his own property, the owner has done everything within his own means to insure the privacy of the contents thereof, short of delivering the containers to a central disposal site himself."
So beware the next time you e-mail, take the trash out, make a call or text on your cell, Big Brother is observing and listening to you with Satellites from space, small UAV's hovering at your window as you watch TV, and going through your trash while you sleep.
As an added piece of food for thought, I believe we need to make a addition to the Article 2 of the Constitution, As such, to be considered for President of the United States, and as Commander-In-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces the candidate MUST HAVE served in the Armed Forces. How can the President order our men and women into battle if he has never served himself and does not understand what it entails.
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
20 June, 2011
31 March, 2011
Do we all have a Surveillance Device in our home
Most people would say, No Way! I value my privacy too much.
Apparently the U.S. Gov't and American business does not. Alright, you'll say, now we know you have gone off the deep end.
Not really. I am sure all of you have some form of cable/satellite television, a computer, and a cell phone. Well sure we do, we don't live in the Stone Age, you say. You may want to reconsider that statement after this.
*Cue scary music* Your TV is watching you.
Quick get on the phone we need some help here! Paranoid Psychosis has taken him over.
Your TV and the cable box can and does hold tens of thousands of pieces of information concerning what you watch and don't watch, what types of commercials make you change the channel or stay on it, and if you have a service that provides, TV, Internet, and Phone the amount of information you are providing is enormous.
Companies use a program to analyze your channel surfing pattern and from that which member of a household is utilizing the remote.
Guys machine gun (and some women, like my wife) through the channels while women rarely change the channel, perhaps 1 or 2 times (like myself), once they have selected a program. They can even tell if someone else is in the room with you based on how you change channels.
From this they compile a profile on you and your personality and can predict what you want to watch along with other targeted information on you. Your DVR, cable box, satellite receiver and tv come standard with programs designed to mine and process personal information, store it and report to monitors.
Your TV will be able to show you one commercial, monitor how you respond, and then show you something else – working on you over time until your TV gets the behavior or attitude change your TV wants.
It is not just a quiet night with you cuddled up with your remote and a TV bathing you in warm radiation. In reality your TV is the one cuddled up to you and sucking information from you like an electronic vampire and sending it straight out to someone else snuggled up to some business computer to find your likes and dislikes and how to entice you to watch their commercial, show or make you buy their product. Reference The Manchurian Candidate.
Now these businesses would say that this is coercive persuasion (defined as mind control), not in anyway close to mind control.
WHOA! you say. How in the world could you say a nice evening vegetating in front of the boob tube be linked to mind control? Glad you asked.
Mind Control IS defined as: a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator."
Technically we have volunteered for this grand longitudinal experiment.
How so? We buy the manipulation unit of own volition. We voluntarily place ourselves in the laboratory everyday, whether it be our living room, bedroom, car, work, etc..., and we choose how we wish to be programmed, by our personal selection of thought control.
Think about this the next time you plop Junior down to watch a large purple dinosaur for a few minutes so you can have a little time to yourself.
An uncomplicated example of manipulation would be grocery shopping. How many times have you been in the store looking for, let's say lunch meat. What pops into your head? My bologna has a first name it's O-S-C-A-R my bologna has a second name it's M-A-Y-E-R of course. So your shopping habits have been steered by a commercial to purchase a certain item which has been implanted in your brain by television.
It appears that the father of Gareth Roberts was right in calling it an 'Idiot's Lantern'. Why? Look at the name, we as intelligent idiots are drawn to the TV as a moth is to a lantern. Want an interesting watch catch the Doctor Who episode of the same name episode number 173. Below is a pic from the episode.
Seems just like the way TV sometimes grips us. Anyway back to mind control and your friendly neighborhood TV.
Now mind control is in essence to decrease our cerebral cohesion. Now your basic evil villain would use brain washing to assist with mind control. Now just like that TV uses many techniques that are in common with brain washing.
Yeah Yeah, still with the craziness.
Ok now follow along Grasshopper.
Techniques such as: Sleep Deprivation ("I just gotta stay up to see the Olympics), Sensory Deprivation ("The TV's just on for background noise"), Constant verbal and psychological harrassment (seeing the same commercial 4 or 5 times during a TV show sound familiar), and directly and indirectly by group social pressure are all aspects used in brain washing.
An example of group social pressure: 'Dude, got new the Iphone or Car or Computer, etc... yet? Everybody has got one. What, you don't have it yet? I'll talk to you when you do.'
Think of what a politican could do knowing how you watch TV. They send out a harmless little survey, which you don't think about it invading your privacy and you either fill it out or trash it.
If you do fill it in they'll find out where you stand on the issues, they already have your viewing preferences; so months ahead of the election everytime while you watch Doctor Who they'll play and ad directed at you saying "I am the Science candidate or the Education candidate", while your next door neighbor maybe be watching Dexter and get an ad from the same politician saying "I'm the Crime Candidate".
Saves money on printing and paper for a survey you may not even look at twice, but they will know you watch Doctor Who every day at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM on BBC America.
We are programmed from birth to death by being bombarded constantly with a plethora of advertisements, information, and agendas from a variety of Princes of the Powers of the Air. Whether we let those princes rule us or make them answer to We The People is totally up to ourselves.
13 July, 2010
One of Several Questions I Have Been Asked Over The Years
The Question is: How Can I Disappear?
Most of the question can be explained with one word: "Underground."
Begin with advance planning. Start by creating, an unknown to anyone, stockpile of cash. If you have any medical conditions requiring medication, begin a stockpile of that as well.
Lets start with the appearance changes. Colored contact lenses, hair color, hair length, shave or grow a beard or moustache, clothing style, vehicle change, possibly to motorcycle, as the helmet adds extra protection from identification by pesky video surveillance cameras. One of the hardest to do, change any identifying habits.
If standard modes of travel are out of the question, meaning you don't own a car, go by bus. Pay cash for the ticket, and use the new assumed name. Remember though do not be caught on the cameras in the station or on the bus which means doing some of your own surveillance ahead of time so you know where the cameras are located. The average American is caught 200 (two hundred) times a day on surveillance cameras.
You'll have to procure new living arrangements, Business cards(instant new ID for identification to people unknown to you). Then Visas, Passports, Personal ID, Credit Cards, Social Security Card, and Birth/Death Certificate more than likely from various personages outside the law and usually of darker purpose.
Faking one's own disappearance/death can be difficult especially today with all the advances in electronics, forensics, GPS etc... and not to mention dental records.
So unless you want to acidically remove your own finger and footprints, tongue prints and earprints which are also coming into vogue now as identifiers, as well as pulling all of your own teeth (Ow!) you'll have to rely on the criminal underground.
If you have contacts with MI6 or the American CIA or NSA, (unlikely, but not improbable) they will be able to wipe your "record".
Create a "blind" email address, with "fake" name and physical address info, either at a local library or internet cafe. Only use it there or on a dedicated laptop with programs to block any 'traffic analysis', use anonymous web surfing software and IP address hiding programs.
More options include a prepaid phone, most of which are 'disposable' meaning untraceable. Drop the credit cards, learn to live off cash and gift type credit cards available at most Wal-Marts.
Another thought would be the world of computer programmers/hackers. They could assist you by infilitrating the mainframes of various governmental agenices e.g. Social Security, Vital Statistics, IRS, Immigration, Homeland Security, et al, although unlikely to be inexpensive.
Legend holds that 7 years is the timeframe to be pronounced legally deceased without a body.
If the need comes along to revive your "old" identity as long as a murder is not involved you'll be fine. If there is then there is no statute to expire for murder and as far as other crimes go it would depend on the country/county/state and the severity of the crime committed.
Enjoy!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Most of the question can be explained with one word: "Underground."
Begin with advance planning. Start by creating, an unknown to anyone, stockpile of cash. If you have any medical conditions requiring medication, begin a stockpile of that as well.
Lets start with the appearance changes. Colored contact lenses, hair color, hair length, shave or grow a beard or moustache, clothing style, vehicle change, possibly to motorcycle, as the helmet adds extra protection from identification by pesky video surveillance cameras. One of the hardest to do, change any identifying habits.
If standard modes of travel are out of the question, meaning you don't own a car, go by bus. Pay cash for the ticket, and use the new assumed name. Remember though do not be caught on the cameras in the station or on the bus which means doing some of your own surveillance ahead of time so you know where the cameras are located. The average American is caught 200 (two hundred) times a day on surveillance cameras.
You'll have to procure new living arrangements, Business cards(instant new ID for identification to people unknown to you). Then Visas, Passports, Personal ID, Credit Cards, Social Security Card, and Birth/Death Certificate more than likely from various personages outside the law and usually of darker purpose.
Faking one's own disappearance/death can be difficult especially today with all the advances in electronics, forensics, GPS etc... and not to mention dental records.
So unless you want to acidically remove your own finger and footprints, tongue prints and earprints which are also coming into vogue now as identifiers, as well as pulling all of your own teeth (Ow!) you'll have to rely on the criminal underground.
If you have contacts with MI6 or the American CIA or NSA, (unlikely, but not improbable) they will be able to wipe your "record".
Create a "blind" email address, with "fake" name and physical address info, either at a local library or internet cafe. Only use it there or on a dedicated laptop with programs to block any 'traffic analysis', use anonymous web surfing software and IP address hiding programs.
More options include a prepaid phone, most of which are 'disposable' meaning untraceable. Drop the credit cards, learn to live off cash and gift type credit cards available at most Wal-Marts.
Another thought would be the world of computer programmers/hackers. They could assist you by infilitrating the mainframes of various governmental agenices e.g. Social Security, Vital Statistics, IRS, Immigration, Homeland Security, et al, although unlikely to be inexpensive.
Legend holds that 7 years is the timeframe to be pronounced legally deceased without a body.
If the need comes along to revive your "old" identity as long as a murder is not involved you'll be fine. If there is then there is no statute to expire for murder and as far as other crimes go it would depend on the country/county/state and the severity of the crime committed.
Enjoy!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
03 July, 2010
TARP, Jobless Rate, and where is the Bailout for the Regular Guy?
After reading the article on Yahoo!! on 01 Apr., 10 about U.S. Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner I was reminded of the way I and many others felt when our Gov't started bailing out the financial institutions to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars.
Yet we, the Average Joe got a paltry $250.00. How's that help? It barely would fill a Humvee gas tank.
I make no pretention as to being an Economist, and Heaven help those poor schmucks, but to me it makes more financial sense to let the big institutions and credit bureau's breathe their last, as they failed to do what they were hired and paid to do. That is protect the American public from what happened during the Great Depression. Now that this "Depression" is even greater than that historic one.
The Gov't should have forgiven We The People our debts across the board, which in Biblical times was done after 7 years. This would have immediately improved the economy. Sure it would have killed many banks, credit unions, auto makers/dealers and other businesses worldwide, but at the same time it would have saved many global citizens from illness or death, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and numerous other bills, etc...
This in turn would have ensured that the "Big Guys" would have immediately retuned and rethought their business models and the way they have treated their customers.
Also how is it "good" for our economy to let American businesses take their shops overseas or out of the country where labor is cheaper. Of course then the jobless rate would skyrocket.
Next is, and I know this will rattle some cages, if we cut down on what we import, for example Cars, and we "Buy American" then unemployment will go down and the economy will go up. How simple can it be?
Now I know it is 'good for business' and Gov't trade negotions to favor certain countries, read Most Favored Nation status, but come on open your eyes Big Gov't. How do you think we got in this mess? Simple... by sending our jobs, factories, et al out of the country and allowing other countries to import their goods to us.
I know we export to them as well and thus that does assist with the economy, but in a disaster of this magnitude we need to be keeping our money, our people, and our jobs in the United States, not exporting them.
Now that the Chinese workers are finally realizing they have been getting a raw deal, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Companies-brace-for-end-of-apf-2437567795.html?x=0 it is time the U.S. Gov't stops granting foreign companies tax breaks and not to mention other benefits and incentives. Offer those to our homegrown employers to keep their company in the U.S.A.!
Rick Goodwin, a China trade veteran of 22 years, has said, "The new game is to find a way to do the domestic market." Meaning here in the United States. Let's 'do the domestic market' some good and get those companies back in the United States.
Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" mocked Frisbee company Wham-O for returning half of the production for Frisbee and production for some other products back to the United States.
I say we should praise and reward Wham-O for returning to the U.S. and bringing jobs along with it. Then perhaps other American companies with production overseas would return to their native soil.
How is it that we have relinquished our freedom and liberty to tell those in positions of authority that we don't like the way they are governing.
Thomas Jefferson said, "When the Government fears the People, there is liberty. When the People fear the Government, there is tyranny." Although I also appreciate the quote from Edmund Dantes in V for Vendetta, "People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people."
We The People should be critical of our government because the government is only interested in maintaining its power, which we in turn stupidly grant it.
A foretaste of a future article begins below.
It depends on who has the weapons. As long as we have the 2nd Amendment the government has to be afraid of the people...citizen or subject...a bullet stands in the way.
The reason our Colonies were able to have a successful break from England was because they had the firepower to do so. The balance of weapons and firearms in the United States is equal to or greater than all the combined U.S. Armed Forces.
Those nations who take the firearms from their masses convince their subjects that they will take care of them in their hour of need. They believe it not realizing the reason the government took the firearms was to remove the threat to their authority.
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
These two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Yet we, the Average Joe got a paltry $250.00. How's that help? It barely would fill a Humvee gas tank.
I make no pretention as to being an Economist, and Heaven help those poor schmucks, but to me it makes more financial sense to let the big institutions and credit bureau's breathe their last, as they failed to do what they were hired and paid to do. That is protect the American public from what happened during the Great Depression. Now that this "Depression" is even greater than that historic one.
The Gov't should have forgiven We The People our debts across the board, which in Biblical times was done after 7 years. This would have immediately improved the economy. Sure it would have killed many banks, credit unions, auto makers/dealers and other businesses worldwide, but at the same time it would have saved many global citizens from illness or death, foreclosure, bankruptcy, and numerous other bills, etc...
This in turn would have ensured that the "Big Guys" would have immediately retuned and rethought their business models and the way they have treated their customers.
Also how is it "good" for our economy to let American businesses take their shops overseas or out of the country where labor is cheaper. Of course then the jobless rate would skyrocket.
Next is, and I know this will rattle some cages, if we cut down on what we import, for example Cars, and we "Buy American" then unemployment will go down and the economy will go up. How simple can it be?
Now I know it is 'good for business' and Gov't trade negotions to favor certain countries, read Most Favored Nation status, but come on open your eyes Big Gov't. How do you think we got in this mess? Simple... by sending our jobs, factories, et al out of the country and allowing other countries to import their goods to us.
I know we export to them as well and thus that does assist with the economy, but in a disaster of this magnitude we need to be keeping our money, our people, and our jobs in the United States, not exporting them.
Now that the Chinese workers are finally realizing they have been getting a raw deal, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Companies-brace-for-end-of-apf-2437567795.html?x=0 it is time the U.S. Gov't stops granting foreign companies tax breaks and not to mention other benefits and incentives. Offer those to our homegrown employers to keep their company in the U.S.A.!
Rick Goodwin, a China trade veteran of 22 years, has said, "The new game is to find a way to do the domestic market." Meaning here in the United States. Let's 'do the domestic market' some good and get those companies back in the United States.
Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" mocked Frisbee company Wham-O for returning half of the production for Frisbee and production for some other products back to the United States.
I say we should praise and reward Wham-O for returning to the U.S. and bringing jobs along with it. Then perhaps other American companies with production overseas would return to their native soil.
How is it that we have relinquished our freedom and liberty to tell those in positions of authority that we don't like the way they are governing.
Thomas Jefferson said, "When the Government fears the People, there is liberty. When the People fear the Government, there is tyranny." Although I also appreciate the quote from Edmund Dantes in V for Vendetta, "People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people."
We The People should be critical of our government because the government is only interested in maintaining its power, which we in turn stupidly grant it.
A foretaste of a future article begins below.
It depends on who has the weapons. As long as we have the 2nd Amendment the government has to be afraid of the people...citizen or subject...a bullet stands in the way.
The reason our Colonies were able to have a successful break from England was because they had the firepower to do so. The balance of weapons and firearms in the United States is equal to or greater than all the combined U.S. Armed Forces.
Those nations who take the firearms from their masses convince their subjects that they will take care of them in their hour of need. They believe it not realizing the reason the government took the firearms was to remove the threat to their authority.
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
These two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Increased Surveillance in the U.S.
This piece was incited by the Yahoo News Article http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100614/ap_on_bi_ge/us_drones_over_america on 14 June about issuing flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions.
Now think about this, the NSA has been performing U.S. Domestic Surveillance on We The People for ages, that was one of its initial responsibilities, see Project Shamrock which was started in the 1950's to monitor international telegram and selected voice communications of American citizens, and Project Minaret which intercepted voice communications of persons of interest to US security organizations of the time, including Malcolm X, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, and Martin Luther King.
For a number of years, United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) 18 was the policy document governing its interception of the communications of U.S. citizens. This document, which has largely been declassified, may no longer be the primary guidance, as there are controversial claims, by the George W. Bush Administration, of an inherent Presidential authority for warrantless surveillance as part of the national security.
There has been a large-scale and controversial capture and analysis of domestic and international telephone calls, claimed to be targeted against terrorism. It is generally accepted that warrants have not been obtained for this activity, sometimes called Room 641A after a location, in San Francisco, where AT&T provides the NSA access. While very little is known about this system, it may be focused more on the signaling channel and Call detail records than the actual content of conversations.
The SIGINT Satellites are trouble enough, what with being able to be anywhere on the planet in minutes and able to visualize down to the city block level, but it is unknown if those satellites have sound capabilites.
Once the UAV drones are made 'radar invisible' or stealth, the UAV's will be able to see and listen right into our living room or car and gather any 'necessary information.' These pilotless aircraft come in a variety of sizes. Some are as big as a small airliner, others the size of a backpack. The tiniest are small enough to fly through a house window.
Guess what the UAV's can do?...
And if the satellites and UAV's are unable to gather the 'necessary information' then it comes down to the street and building level surveillance cameras.
So now the Alphabet Agencies will now have more information concerning our habits, personal, spending and otherwise.
We can kiss the 1st, 3rd, and, 4th Amendments GOODBYE.
We The People need to push for an update to the 14th Amendment or a specific amendment to protect personal privacy encompasssing our homes, vehicles, personal communications, children, families, et al.
It is bad enough that Florida alone has over 30,000 surveillance cameras, and now the Sunshine State will be adding more "Traffic/Red Light Runner" ones as well.
The average American, That Means YOU, is caught on surveillance cameras across the United States on average 200 (two hundred) times per day.
Think about that. Being watched by "Them" 24 hours a day, while you sleep, eat, shop, shower, drive, and I'll leave the rest to your imagination. Now while some may enjoy being the exhibitionist, others may not and ALL should be interested in guarding their private lives.
Now I am all for security, I served in both the U.S. Navy and Army, but I think Big Brother is getting too big for his breeches.
And any country or state for that matter, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.
Think About It!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Now think about this, the NSA has been performing U.S. Domestic Surveillance on We The People for ages, that was one of its initial responsibilities, see Project Shamrock which was started in the 1950's to monitor international telegram and selected voice communications of American citizens, and Project Minaret which intercepted voice communications of persons of interest to US security organizations of the time, including Malcolm X, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, and Martin Luther King.
For a number of years, United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) 18 was the policy document governing its interception of the communications of U.S. citizens. This document, which has largely been declassified, may no longer be the primary guidance, as there are controversial claims, by the George W. Bush Administration, of an inherent Presidential authority for warrantless surveillance as part of the national security.
There has been a large-scale and controversial capture and analysis of domestic and international telephone calls, claimed to be targeted against terrorism. It is generally accepted that warrants have not been obtained for this activity, sometimes called Room 641A after a location, in San Francisco, where AT&T provides the NSA access. While very little is known about this system, it may be focused more on the signaling channel and Call detail records than the actual content of conversations.
The SIGINT Satellites are trouble enough, what with being able to be anywhere on the planet in minutes and able to visualize down to the city block level, but it is unknown if those satellites have sound capabilites.
Once the UAV drones are made 'radar invisible' or stealth, the UAV's will be able to see and listen right into our living room or car and gather any 'necessary information.' These pilotless aircraft come in a variety of sizes. Some are as big as a small airliner, others the size of a backpack. The tiniest are small enough to fly through a house window.
Guess what the UAV's can do?...
And if the satellites and UAV's are unable to gather the 'necessary information' then it comes down to the street and building level surveillance cameras.
So now the Alphabet Agencies will now have more information concerning our habits, personal, spending and otherwise.
We can kiss the 1st, 3rd, and, 4th Amendments GOODBYE.
We The People need to push for an update to the 14th Amendment or a specific amendment to protect personal privacy encompasssing our homes, vehicles, personal communications, children, families, et al.
It is bad enough that Florida alone has over 30,000 surveillance cameras, and now the Sunshine State will be adding more "Traffic/Red Light Runner" ones as well.
The average American, That Means YOU, is caught on surveillance cameras across the United States on average 200 (two hundred) times per day.
Think about that. Being watched by "Them" 24 hours a day, while you sleep, eat, shop, shower, drive, and I'll leave the rest to your imagination. Now while some may enjoy being the exhibitionist, others may not and ALL should be interested in guarding their private lives.
Now I am all for security, I served in both the U.S. Navy and Army, but I think Big Brother is getting too big for his breeches.
And any country or state for that matter, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.
Think About It!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing.
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
15 June, 2010
Government Taking Control of Our Children
Greetings All,
While preparing to write a piece about Gov't outrages concerning surveillance and a police state I came upon this.
I saw this article and the fact that is it already exists as a UN resolution and is currently being enforced in other countries is scary enough, but now OUR government is considering it! In a nutshell, the government will have control over how parents raise their children and what we teach them and what we allow them to do or not do.
The U.S. Senate is expected to take up the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The effort is a dangerous treaty for the family, according to pediatrician Rosemary Stein of Burlington, North Carolina, and a spokesperson for the Christian Medical Association (CMA).
"It takes away the parents' rights to rear their child and gives it to the government," she explains. "The government becomes the caretaker and the guardian, and the parent(s) becomes the babysitter." Another way to define it would be 'the government takeover of our children.'
If the contract is enforced, the government would have the right to intercede or supersede if officials believe the parents are doing something that is not in the best interest of the child. An example of this comes from Germany, where the government has passed laws that ban parents from homeschooling their children.
"I didn't know that it was this insidious, and at the same time, this overwhelming," Stein laments. "It goes over everything -- what you teach them, what you do with them [and] how they're reared."
The CMA spokesman predicts this will change society from the bottom up. For instance, a 16-year-old girl in Great Britain asked her parents to let her boyfriend move in and share her bedroom. When the parents said no, the teen filed suit and won.
It is not known when the U.S. Senate will try to ratify the treaty, so Dr. Stein says people need to start contacting their senators to voice their views.
Now if this isn't enough to give anyone pause for thought, then maybe my next article will!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
While preparing to write a piece about Gov't outrages concerning surveillance and a police state I came upon this.
I saw this article and the fact that is it already exists as a UN resolution and is currently being enforced in other countries is scary enough, but now OUR government is considering it! In a nutshell, the government will have control over how parents raise their children and what we teach them and what we allow them to do or not do.
The U.S. Senate is expected to take up the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The effort is a dangerous treaty for the family, according to pediatrician Rosemary Stein of Burlington, North Carolina, and a spokesperson for the Christian Medical Association (CMA).
"It takes away the parents' rights to rear their child and gives it to the government," she explains. "The government becomes the caretaker and the guardian, and the parent(s) becomes the babysitter." Another way to define it would be 'the government takeover of our children.'
If the contract is enforced, the government would have the right to intercede or supersede if officials believe the parents are doing something that is not in the best interest of the child. An example of this comes from Germany, where the government has passed laws that ban parents from homeschooling their children.
"I didn't know that it was this insidious, and at the same time, this overwhelming," Stein laments. "It goes over everything -- what you teach them, what you do with them [and] how they're reared."
The CMA spokesman predicts this will change society from the bottom up. For instance, a 16-year-old girl in Great Britain asked her parents to let her boyfriend move in and share her bedroom. When the parents said no, the teen filed suit and won.
It is not known when the U.S. Senate will try to ratify the treaty, so Dr. Stein says people need to start contacting their senators to voice their views.
Now if this isn't enough to give anyone pause for thought, then maybe my next article will!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
14 June, 2010
Florida, Arizona, and The Police State
As some of you may or may not know one point of contention between Bill McCollum & Rick Scott in the Florida Gubernatorial race concerns the Arizona Senate Bill 1070 AKA Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act .
Possibly to enact the same in Florida.
It obligates police to make an attempt, when practicable during a "lawful stop, detention or arrest made by a law enforcement official", to determine a person's immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is an illegal alien.
Now who is to say what "reasonable suspicion" is?
Is it because you look Hispanic, Latino, Mexican, Cuban, Arabic, Israeli, Eurasian, you have red hair, or blue, you name it, or you could be wearing a shirt that purports coexistence between all the world religions, and that could make you 'suspicious.'
This seems to me to be "racial profiling." Aren't we supposed to be NOT engaged in profiling!
So 'they' haul you off to jail, detention, lock up or whatever you'd like to call it, until 'they' decide either you're American enough to release or not enough and keep you incarcerated for an 'unspecified length of time.'
For those of us old enough to remember sounds a bit like McCarthyism and the old Soviet KGB tactics.
Want a little foretaste of what could be in our future? Watch the movie "V for Vendetta." What a little fearmongering won't do for granting the Government control of our lives.
Isn't our country defined as "The Great Melting Pot." A place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society.
This from Schoolhouse Rock back in the day:
"You simply melt right in,
It doesn't matter what your skin.
It doesn't matter where you're from,
Or your religion, you jump right in
To the great American melting pot.
Oh, what a stew, the red, white, and blue."
HELLO Government people! This is what is engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, written by Emma Lazarus daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jews:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Quit hammering on these people that just got to the United States of America, looking for a better life, and what do we do, we ship them right back to where they came from after they worked so hard to get here.
Now I know not everyone is perfect and the criminal element comes right in with the good.
Thomas Jefferson said, "When the Government fears the People, there is liberty. When the People fear the Government, there is tyranny." Although, I also appreciate the quote from Edmund Dantes in V for Vendetta, "People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people."
Was not the U.S. Gov't founded with the intent of preventing tyranny (sure seems like the good ol' US of A is being a bit tyrannical) and investing the people with 'inalienable human rights.'
Think about that word:"Inalienable" what do we call people who are not "Americans'. that's right 'Aliens', not the kind from outer space, but the kind from a space (country) that is not our own.
Webster's defines Inalienable as : incapable of being alienated. So in other words we should treat everyone like they are our brothers, not some evil, wicked, mean, and nasty monster.
The Gov't should remember the Golden Rule "treat others as you would like to be treated."
The Bible has this to say on the matter: Matt. 25:40 "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto Me."
Someday we, meaning the United States, may need the assistance of the countries these people have come from, and guess what those countries are going to remember how we treated their countrymen.
Another thought as I part, which I will expand on more at a later date on my blog.
It is bad enough that Florida alone has over 30,000 surveillance cameras, and now the Sunshine State will be adding more "Traffic/Red Light Runner" ones as well.
The average American is caught on surveillance cameras across the United States on average 200 (two hundred) times per day.
Now I am all for security, I served in both the U.S. Navy and Army, but I think Big Brother is getting too big for his britches.
And any country or state for that matter, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.
Well, I will be looking forward to your thoughtful responses to my rambling on this subject.
Give It Some Thought!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
Possibly to enact the same in Florida.
It obligates police to make an attempt, when practicable during a "lawful stop, detention or arrest made by a law enforcement official", to determine a person's immigration status if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is an illegal alien.
Now who is to say what "reasonable suspicion" is?
Is it because you look Hispanic, Latino, Mexican, Cuban, Arabic, Israeli, Eurasian, you have red hair, or blue, you name it, or you could be wearing a shirt that purports coexistence between all the world religions, and that could make you 'suspicious.'
This seems to me to be "racial profiling." Aren't we supposed to be NOT engaged in profiling!
So 'they' haul you off to jail, detention, lock up or whatever you'd like to call it, until 'they' decide either you're American enough to release or not enough and keep you incarcerated for an 'unspecified length of time.'
For those of us old enough to remember sounds a bit like McCarthyism and the old Soviet KGB tactics.
Want a little foretaste of what could be in our future? Watch the movie "V for Vendetta." What a little fearmongering won't do for granting the Government control of our lives.
Isn't our country defined as "The Great Melting Pot." A place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society.
This from Schoolhouse Rock back in the day:
"You simply melt right in,
It doesn't matter what your skin.
It doesn't matter where you're from,
Or your religion, you jump right in
To the great American melting pot.
Oh, what a stew, the red, white, and blue."
HELLO Government people! This is what is engraved on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, written by Emma Lazarus daughter of Portuguese Sephardic Jews:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Quit hammering on these people that just got to the United States of America, looking for a better life, and what do we do, we ship them right back to where they came from after they worked so hard to get here.
Now I know not everyone is perfect and the criminal element comes right in with the good.
Thomas Jefferson said, "When the Government fears the People, there is liberty. When the People fear the Government, there is tyranny." Although, I also appreciate the quote from Edmund Dantes in V for Vendetta, "People should not fear their government, the government should fear the people."
Was not the U.S. Gov't founded with the intent of preventing tyranny (sure seems like the good ol' US of A is being a bit tyrannical) and investing the people with 'inalienable human rights.'
Think about that word:"Inalienable" what do we call people who are not "Americans'. that's right 'Aliens', not the kind from outer space, but the kind from a space (country) that is not our own.
Webster's defines Inalienable as : incapable of being alienated. So in other words we should treat everyone like they are our brothers, not some evil, wicked, mean, and nasty monster.
The Gov't should remember the Golden Rule "treat others as you would like to be treated."
The Bible has this to say on the matter: Matt. 25:40 "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto Me."
Someday we, meaning the United States, may need the assistance of the countries these people have come from, and guess what those countries are going to remember how we treated their countrymen.
Another thought as I part, which I will expand on more at a later date on my blog.
It is bad enough that Florida alone has over 30,000 surveillance cameras, and now the Sunshine State will be adding more "Traffic/Red Light Runner" ones as well.
The average American is caught on surveillance cameras across the United States on average 200 (two hundred) times per day.
Now I am all for security, I served in both the U.S. Navy and Army, but I think Big Brother is getting too big for his britches.
And any country or state for that matter, that gives up freedom for security is not somewhere I would want to live.
Well, I will be looking forward to your thoughtful responses to my rambling on this subject.
Give It Some Thought!
Mad Doc
Remember *Writing is the socially acceptable form of Schizophrenia*
Two of my favorite sayings in closing:
1) If we fail to anticipate the unforeseen or expect the unexpected in a universe of infinite possibilities, we may find ourselves at the mercy of anyone or anything that cannot be programmed, categorized or easily referenced.
2) "It is the duty of those who CAN see what is going on to expose to those who cannot see, the situation that they are unaware of!"
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