Hit men are "just doing their jobs", too. Still takes a special strain of scum to *want* to do it.

Sadly, you are very correct.
Back in Dallas, in the 90's, I personally knew people that had their door kicked in by the "Drug Task Force", teargas thrown, and the husband was thrown out of his wheelchair, which was then roughly dismantled/broken in front of him while they "searched it for weapons". What were they guilty of? Living at the house when the police went to the WRONG ADDRESS. A similar incident resulted in a newborn baby's lungs being permanently scarred by tear gas.

The police started curbing their actions when they started getting shot going into houses that were supposed to be easy pickings. The drug dealers had started buying "look-alike" uniforms via mail-order, and pulling raids on rival dealers using the same tactics of the police. When someone steals a dealers drugs and money, the dealer is still on the hook to his supplier. When they heard, "Dallas PD! Open up!" all they could think of was "Those bastards are back! Eat hot lead!"

The lesson here? Poor, honest, people can't afford lawyers to sue city hall to behave correctly, but drug dealers willing to kill a cop will make them watch themselves very carefully.

Apparently the Police Departments of America disagree with this law, and feel that it doesn't apply to them. That's what the big pissing match is all about.

Do a google search for American internment camps Japanese Americans WWII. Over 120,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were forced into relocation camps.

Check your history. There's your god damned citation.

You think they haven't been ready to do it AGAIN?

So.... You'd get off with a lighter sentence if you went and killed the RIAA attorneys? I like your thinking, and I'll gladly kick in a buck for your legal defense fund.

I understand your aversion to Google knowing everything about you, but you can soon lay your fears to rest. Once CISPA is law, you'll have absolutely no privacy anymore, even if you totally avoid Google. Companies will have total legal shielding about sharing your information with any government agency that asks for it. Even your local dog catcher will be able to find out anything they want about you.

Feel better now? No more worries about Google!

The country is doing okay. The government... not so much. Many of the policies put in place over the last 50 years have been directly detrimental to the interests of the peoples of the United States.

When I, and many others, took the military entrance oath, it included the phrase ,"defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic". Many of the actions taken by the government, and its myriad subordinate entities, would easily fall into that category. The problem is that even if you throw out the old rascals, the new ones probably won't be much better for very long.

The people that want to "use the methods of the system to clean it up" are stuck in a bad place. They want to fix the system, but the system has protected itself by making sure that the methods in place quit working. Instead the methods simply point out which ants need to have a finger put on them.

I love my country. It's people are my family. It's natural resources and history are my treasures. I understand now why my 97 year old grandmother was so ashamed of what our government had become. It hurts my family. It steals my treasures. It makes me a criminal in my own home.

It's setting up the conditions for the Second American Civil War. Too many people have little to nothing left to lose.And that number is growing despite the claims of a "recovery". The current policy makers seem to think that if they keep us distracted by constant foreign war, we'll not notice the corruption of our leaders, or the growing impoverishment of the people. That we're not informed enough, or smart enough to take a step back and see the big picture.

They know it would only take a spark in the right, or wrong, place to set the country ablaze. The internment camps have been built and in place for decades, and various agencies, policies, and procedures created to help control a popular uprising. It's understandable, of course. Any organism without a sense of self-preservation dies quickly, and a government is definitely an organisation. But it's poisoned itself for so long, it's starting to choke and wither. Soon, it won't even be able to defend itself against its own people, who've been disenfranchised and made into modern Huns. So many people are already enslaved in the American penal system, that numerically it's a country in its' own right.

Forget the scary "muslims", be afraid of the politicians, and the homeless, and the vanishing middle class who will soon be homeless.

Or maybe at the controls of some of those new quadcopters? A nice, big one, with a telescopic camera and ... gun barrel? Those can be made for how much a piece? Could a SAM even TARGET something that small?

Actually, US military personnel have always been subject to double-, or even triple- jeopardy. They can be punished by military law and regulation, U.S. federal law, and if it happened in a foreign country involving native peoples, their laws also.

The government loves sending troops "over there", where ever "there" is this week, but the troops *really* don't want to go once they find out that they are in as much danger from bureaucrats as they are bullets. Not trusting others comes easy, but when you can't even trust your own people...

Thanks for the clarification. So, Flashback isn't malware? Or are you just splitting hairs?