Comment Re:Boohoo (Score 1) 439
Everyone who is not in the sanctum of power is liable for the 17 and going on 19 Trillion dollar debt.
That's 150 thousand dollars per tax payer, in today's dollars. Good fucking luck.
Everyone who is not in the sanctum of power is liable for the 17 and going on 19 Trillion dollar debt.
That's 150 thousand dollars per tax payer, in today's dollars. Good fucking luck.
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. Treaties do have major implications under U.S. domestic law. In Missouri v. Holland, the Supreme Court ruled that the power to make treaties under the U.S. Costitution is a power separate from the other enumerated powers of the federal government, and hence the federal government can use treaties to legislate in areas which would otherwise fall within the exclusive authority of the states.
Fuck off. The 10th amendment is abundantly clear and anything you or anyone else writes or says elsewhere is meaningless.
The feds were granted very specific and NARROW domains and anything not mentioned is NOT THEIR BUSINESS.
The fact that they wipe their asses with the constitution on an hourly basis and in perpetuity does not make it right and some day when they've pissed off enough people there will be a revolution.
While both of them are fictitious entities used to shield individuals from accountability, one has a monopoly on the initiation of force and violence and is in fact the parent of the other.
Had this not been documented and proven beyond reasonable doubt, countless people including you would have dismissed it.
There's a big difference between a hypothesis and a hypothesis backed by evidence. The first one is like assholes, except everyone has a million of them.
Also, some commercial encryption has back doors.
You must be from the alternate dimension where the people have somehow ensured the federal government operates within the bounds of law.
Over here, the feds wipe their arses with the constitution and completely ignore the fact that they're only allowed certain powers and anything not enumerated is left to the people and the states.
The first thing I should tell you is that the secret feds have created their own secret interpretation of their secret version of the constitution which you're not allowed to know about, unless their secret courts use secret evidence which you're not allowed to see to put a secret gag order on you, which you're not allowed to talk about to the public who doesn't care and ain't listening..
Sit down, relax, watch a game of football or baseball on tv as is the local custom and forget about pesky things like justice and liberty, it's gonna be a while.
Right now most bitcoin millionaires are either looking for a way to unload their fortunes or hoping to become bitcoin billionaires..
How about recently:
When the executive decides that certain classified information is beneficial to them, they leak it and go unpunished. This happens on a weekly basis as a form of propaganda.
When the executive wants to retaliate against someone, they leak classified information and go unpunished, e.g. dick cheney revealing valerie plame.
If anyone else leaks classified information, the government goes after them with full force.
Given that the government has taken to classifying just about everything it does, this results in a propaganda machine where only information beneficial to the government tends to be revealed.
This. Exactly. Terrorists are a sometimes-maybe-sorta threat. Government is much more terrifying because it is always there protecting itself rather than its citizens.
How do we fight this nonsense? It goes way beyond the role of groups like the EFF... What groups can I support to prevent nonsense like this?
Actually in America, you have a greater chance of being struck by lightning on the way to your car in the morning than being killed by a terrorist.
But the sheeple and government tyrant's response is a little disproportionate don't ya think?
This will never work because it assumes that the purpose of the surveillance state is to 'fight terrorism'.
This is incorrect. The purpose of the surveillance state is to consolidate power in the hands of the elite. The target isn't terrorists using keywords like 'bomb' etc. The targets are everyone, using whatever words they use and doing whatever they do in their normal life.
The real intention is to give those at the top, unlimited, total information surveillance powers against their enemies, WHOMEVER they may be at any time. You want that supreme court decision to go your way? Read the private email and listen to the private conversations of the swing justice to gain insight to his thinking and shape your arguments correctly. If that fails, use the information to blackmail him.
You want to influence the elections? Analyze the big-data you have on the entire population in the voting district to figure out their private thoughts on issues and advertise accordingly.
You want to start a war? Use the knowledge you have to leverage the actors you have creating mainstream news to shape the country's views.
There were already laws against bombing or shooting people. The terrorism is the slight of hand that allows you to target people who have not committed crimes.
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.
Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;
The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;
The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;
In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;
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