Liberalism was pointing to Islam for human rights abuses that you didn't care about many years before it was attached to any terrorism threat. The issue is how legislators react to it and clamp down on civil rights for all citizens that achieve the goals for the terrorists.

This narrative unfolds because of a black flag with arabic writing in white. Instead of being handled by the normal criminal codes and all the things we learned from the UK forces interacting with the IRA as 'some loony holding people hostage', all of the new terrorism protocols are activated and it becomes a global news event.

If you stop playing politics for a moment you will see that this is the obvious outcome of how we deal with these situations and how easy it is to manipulate our feeble politicians into pushing our democracies into a full police state.

The police here were using illegal spyware to infiltrate peoples computers to capture data, instead of using the legal processes available to them, to reveal some "potential" attacks.They then whipped up a media frenzy to garner support to pass new security legislation that would legalize the use of such methods. Of the 16 "suspects" 15 were released without charge and a 16th on a minor charge.

This sort of thing is what that legislation was supposed to prevent.

If you weren't an AC I might tell you.

Absolutely! It's a fine line we have to walk because on one side we have Islam with significant human rights abuses and on the other intelligence agencies carrying out false flag operations and blaming it on them.

The enhancements to the National Security Act passed in October and was supposed to stop this sort of thing. It was passed on the back of a media shitstorm over some 15 alleged assailant who were all released without charge and one on minor charges. Meanwhile 99.99999% of the population bares the cost.

Best of luck getting out of there - looks like it's going to be a shitfight on the trains later.

I believe the children are our future, we should teach them well and let them lead the way by showing them all the beauty they possess inside.

These K-12 visa holders are taking our jobs!

It seems too obvious, that is. I shouldn't post when tired.

Stripped binaries, statically linked libraries, magic numbers in packets and so on. I'm sure there are a few shell vulnerabilities that we don't know about and certainly there are plenty of commands that can be exploited to escalate priviledge levels if required.

Ok, so lets just call it fantasy then.

Absolutely and we seem to be seeing legislative constructs being passed that allow for these hugely intrusive schemes to operate legaly. It should be more concerning to Joe Citizen that a member of the intelligence community steps away from that world and says "Hey people, it *has* gone too far".

Unfortunately, here in Australia, we now see the type of legal framework introduced that makes whistleblowers, who are concerned about democracy, turned into criminals. I can only hope that such a thing remains un-constitutional in the US and UK.

Because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. To balance this protection of privacy must become systemic and impinging it must become expensive.

When you say "You people" it makes me wonder if you have ever written a letter to a politician and added your voice to a demand for them to act in their constituents interests and if you actually participate in democracy beyond voting for brand X or Y. As you have expressed yourself as an anonymous coward, perhaps you should consider if you are one of the people you are talking about.

Effectively they have already done that to themselves, however, you may find that certain political exectives receive dispensation due to the financial connections they have.

As for respect, first we have to move up to contempt from the downright hostility we are currently being shown as citizens.