One day soon, if this form of pre-crime is put into use, a the police will gun down a person and it will be judged reasonable force, because they had reason to suspect the person was dangerous due to the "fact" that they would soon commit a crime. in these crazy days when the government takes private property for profit without a court order or due process(http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/10/04/ij-challenges-%E2%80%9Cpolicing-for-profit%E2%80%9D-in-massachusetts/), where the government can threaten a person with a violet SWAT style raid for having a health lemon tree in their home(http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/09/15/usda-seizes-1000-personal-lemon-trees-threatens-fed-raid/), where the government contends that you don't own your property(http://libertylog.org/?p=2837), and that you have no rights to food, health, or to contract(http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/fda-you-have-no-natural-right-to-food-health-or-private-contracts/), what do you expect. People are asleep. In the land of the free you don't have as many rights as you think. Of course they wouldn't try the same thing with large corporations of people with money or power. It's only the little people who get stepped on. At least a few have balls and they are in NY right now. What are you doing for the people who are actually doing something? They are fighting for your rights for your rights and freedom from a government controlled more and more by large corporations and less and less by, and for, the people.

People chemically altered slightly to become human bombs. No, wait, that was a B-movie also.

Hard to imagine people still cling to the idea that we must give up our freedoms to protect us from the people who hate us for our freedoms.

Carbon credits erased jet pollution. Amazing! Next thing you know we'll be able to pay the pope to erase our sins. Sounds like a scam, but I'm sure it's on the up and up.

Careful there buddy. We just took over all your boarders. Don't think we wont send the black helicopters. :)

You have answered your first question with your seconds question.

+3 for bashing Gnomes? I'm confused. Isn't that only for Rangers?

... until it becomes the home of the brave.

Who the hell is okay with naked pictures of little kids? If you are I can refer you to the Pope job placement.

I worked at FTP Software(yes, by now you've never heard of them) when they partnered with Microsoft. The guy hired away from Apple said "Microsoft would never screw us." Everyone in the room laughed, then printed their resumes. The company did not last long.

They should zune ahead of Apple and Google in no time.

Awesome post!

AT&T illegally gives the DOJ your phone calls, emails, messages, and other personal information in an up-to-the-second interface, and when some kid notices a security flaw the same DOJ comes after him? The public that puts up with this deserves to be treated this way.

... and this man works in education? Oddly he seem immune to it.

You cannot ever eliminate all items which can be used to harm people. It's not possible and it not worth working on beyond actual weapons. At some point schools need to focus on schools. The smartest and brightest are the best of our future.

Yes, kids will fight, and they will get hurt. But responding to a non-problem and non-issue and threatening students who bring the basic tools of learning for the last ... ummm ... 300 years is insane.

    Just like the Pentagon you might attack the messenger also. I don't really care. See, the Pentagon is just doing what all Americans do, blame the message and the messenger for bursting their bubble. In times past people were willing to put everything on the line to put our country right. They saw no risk as greater than that of a government not controlled by the people. However as soon as life got a little too comfortable and the country's population was simply coasting on the accomplishments of past generations, people had something to risk such as their view that life was easy and freedom didn't mean doing anything. In the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's, it was clear our government need a course correction. Voting was not the answer, because clearly that didn't work. I'm calling Americans cowards when it comes to taking control of their government, and I want to know what they will do other than blame the messenger, or what it will take for them to do anything at all. At the very least we need to confront our own problem of inaction as a people, and people in general need to become politically active. As the Constitution says "We The People...", which means we all have a duty to be activists. The power of government emanates from the people. It's our power, now we just need to take control.

    If just voting is not working what other methods are there to make the government answerable to the people? I have seen great imagination solve amazing problem. PJ over at Groklaw . The EFF and the Software Freedom Law Center. I have seen amazingly selfless efforts do the impossible such as, create the web, the browser, Linux, MySQL, Postgres, and countless other software project which nobody would have even believed would happy. I was a Linux user and advocate in 1995, and nobody cared until I built a Linux based ISP that same year. With all these projects the people working on them knew it could be done, even when "normal" thinking told others it tool a large company, because there is something magical about a large company. There isn't. Just as change in this country does not take a large political organization, it only takes the same exact faith which created Linux, or any of the other projects. We face nothing more than a crisis imagination. If we can imagine a way to do it, then it can be done.

    If you have done nothing to address the problem, the you get what you get. Don't blame the mirror for the ugliness you see in it.

    Motivate your friends and family. The major parties are in bed with the large companies. We need government answerable to the people. Storming the castle doesn't work anymore since they have far better arms. We need imaginative solutions. Don't "be the change" you want to see in the world, be a virus of change.

Their seal is in other media. As a matter of reporting and reporting on the seal itself. It's in encyclopedias. WTF?

Clear this is one more government employee trying to justify his job. We're supporting far too many otherwise jobless people in the government. You hardly need more proof.