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Creepy, Calculating & Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You
Submitted by John Whitehead vbia The Rutherford Institute,
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984
None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the age of overcriminalization, when the most upstanding citizen could be counted on to break at least three laws a day without knowing it, most of us have knowingly flouted the law from time to time.
Indeed, there was a time when most Americans thought nothing of driving a few miles over the speed limit, pausing (rather than coming to a full stop) at a red light when making a right-hand turn if no one was around, jaywalking across the street, and letting their kid play hookie from school once in a while. Of course, that was before the era of speed cameras that ticket you for going even a mile over the posted limit, red light cameras that fine you for making safe “rolling stop” right-hand turns on red, surveillance cameras equipped with facial recognition software mounted on street corners, and school truancy laws that fine parents for “unexcused” absences.
My, how times have changed.
Today, there’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home. That’s because technology—specifically the technology employed by the government against the American citizenry—has upped the stakes dramatically so that there’s little we do that is not known by the government.
In such an environment, you’re either a paragon of virtue, or you’re a criminal.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, we’re all criminals. This is the creepy, calculating yet diabolical genius of the American police state: the very technology we hailed as revolutionary and liberating has become our prison, jailer, probation officer, Big Brother and Father Knows Best all rolled into one.
Consider that on any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. A byproduct of this new age in which we live, whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. As I point out in my book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, this doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere.
For example, police have been using Stingray devices mounted on their cruisers to intercept cell phone calls and text messages without court-issued search warrants. Thwarting efforts to learn how and when these devices are being used against an unsuspecting populace, the FBI is insisting that any inquiries about the use of the technology be routed to the agency “in order to allow sufficient time for the FBI to intervene to protect the equipment/technology and information from disclosure and potential compromise.”
Doppler radar devices, which can detect human breathing and movement within in a home, are already being employed by the police to deliver arrest warrants and are being challenged in court. One case in particular, United States v Denson, examines how the Fourth Amendment interacts with the government’s use of radar technology to peer inside a suspect’s home. As Judge Neil Gorsuch recognizes in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling in the case, “New technologies bring with them not only new opportunities for law enforcement to catch criminals but also new risks for abuse and new ways to invade constitutional rights.”
License plate readers, yet another law enforcement spying device made possible through funding by the Department of Homeland Security, can record up to 1800 license plates per minute. However, it seems these surveillance cameras can also photograph those inside a moving car. Recent reports indicate that the Drug Enforcement Administration has been using the cameras in conjunction with facial recognition software to build a “vehicle surveillance database” of the nation’s cars, drivers and passengers.
Sidewalk and “public space” cameras, sold to gullible communities as a sure-fire means of fighting crime, is yet another DHS program that is blanketing small and large towns alike with government-funded and monitored surveillance cameras. It’s all part of a public-private partnership that gives government officials access to all manner of surveillance cameras, on sidewalks, on buildings, on buses, even those installed on private property.
Couple these surveillance cameras with facial recognition and behavior-sensing technology and you have the makings of “pre-crime” cameras, which scan your mannerisms, compare you to pre-set parameters for “normal” behavior, and alert the police if you trigger any computerized alarms as being “suspicious.”
Capitalizing on a series of notorious abductions of college-aged students, several states are pushing to expand their biometric and DNA databases by requiring that anyone accused of a misdemeanor have their DNA collected and catalogued. However, technology is already available that allows the government to collect biometrics such as fingerprints from a distance, without a person’s cooperation or knowledge. One system can actually scan and identify a fingerprint from nearly 20 feet away.
Radar guns have long been the speed cop’s best friend, allowing him to hide out by the side of the road, identify speeding cars, and then radio ahead to a police car, which does the dirty work of pulling the driver over and issuing a ticket. Never mind that what this cop is really doing is using an electronic device to search your car without a search warrant, violating the Fourth Amendment and probable cause. Yet because it’s a cash cow for police and the governments they report to, it’s a practice that is not only allowed but encouraged. Indeed, developers are hard at work on a radar gun that can actually show if you or someone in your car is texting. No word yet on whether the technology will also be able to detect the contents of that text message.
It’s a sure bet that anything the government welcomes (and funds) too enthusiastically is bound to be a Trojan horse full of nasty surprises. Case in point: police body cameras. Hailed as the easy fix solution to police abuses, these body cameras—made possible by funding from the Department of Justice—will turn police officers into roving surveillance cameras. Of course, if you try to request access to that footage, you’ll find yourself being led a merry and costly chase through miles of red tape, bureaucratic footmen and unhelpful courts.
The “internet of things” refers to the growing number of “smart” appliances and electronic devices now connected to the internet and capable of interacting with each other and being controlled remotely. These range from thermostats and coffee makers to cars and TVs. Of course, there’s a price to pay for such easy control and access. That price amounts to relinquishing ultimate control of and access to your home to the government and its corporate partners. For example, while Samsung’s Smart TVs are capable of “listening” to what you say, thereby allow users to control the TV using voice commands, it also records everything you say and relays it to a third party.
Then again, the government doesn’t really need to spy on you using your smart TV when the FBI can remotely activate the microphone on your cellphone and record your conversations. The FBI can also do the same thing to laptop computers without the owner knowing any better.
Government surveillance of social media such as Twitter and Facebook is on the rise. Americans have become so accustomed to the government overstepping its limits that most don’t even seem all that bothered anymore about the fact that the government is spying on our emails and listening in on our phone calls.
Drones, which will begin to take to the skies en masse this year, will be the converging point for all of the weapons and technology already available to law enforcement agencies. This means drones that can listen in on your phone calls, see through the walls of your home, scan your biometrics, photograph you and track your movements, and even corral you with sophisticated weaponry.
And then there’s the Internet and cell phone kill switch, which enables the government to shut down Internet and cell phone communications without Americans being given any warning. It’s a practice that has been used before in the U.S., albeit in a limited fashion. In 2005, cell service was disabled in four major New York tunnels (reportedly to avert potential bomb detonations via cell phone). In 2009, those attending President Obama’s inauguration had their cell signals blocked (again, same rationale). And in 2011, San Francisco commuters had their cell phone signals shut down (this time, to thwart any possible protests over a police shooting of a homeless man).
It’s a given that the government’s tactics are always more advanced than we know, so there’s no knowing what new technologies are already being deployed against without our knowledge. Certainly, by the time we learn about a particular method of surveillance or new technological gadget, it’s a sure bet that the government has been using it covertly for years already. And if other governments are using a particular technology, you can bet that our government used it first. For instance, back in 2011, it was reported that the government of Tunisia was not only monitoring the emails of its citizens but was actually altering the contents of those emails in order to thwart dissidents. How much do you want to bet that government agents have already employed such tactics in the U.S.?
Apart from the obvious dangers posed by a government that feels justified and empowered to spy on its people and use its ever-expanding arsenal of weapons and technology to monitor and control them, we’re approaching a time in which we will be forced to choose between obeying the dictates of the government—i.e., the law, or whatever a government officials deems the law to be—and maintaining our individuality, integrity and independence.
When people talk about privacy, they mistakenly assume it protects only that which is hidden behind a wall or under one’s clothing. The courts have fostered this misunderstanding with their constantly shifting delineation of what constitutes an “expectation of privacy.” And technology has furthered muddied the waters.
However, privacy is so much more than what you do or say behind locked doors. It is a way of living one’s life firm in the belief that you are the master of your life, and barring any immediate danger to another person (which is far different from the carefully crafted threats to national security the government uses to justify its actions), it’s no one’s business what you read, what you say, where you go, whom you spend your time with, and how you spend your money.
Unfortunately, privacy as we once knew it is dead.
We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored, managed and controlled by our technology, which answers not to us but to our government and corporate rulers. This is the fact-is-stranger-than-fiction lesson that is being pounded into us on a daily basis.
Thus, to be an individual today, to not conform, to have even a shred of privacy, and to live beyond the reach of the government’s roaming eyes and technological spies, one must not only be a rebel but rebel.
Even when you rebel and take your stand, there is rarely a happy ending awaiting you. You are rendered an outlaw. This is the message in almost every dystopian work of fiction, from classic writers such as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury to more contemporary voices such as Margaret Atwood, Lois Lowry and Suzanne Collins.
How do you survive in the American police state?
We’re running out of options. As Philip K. Dick, the visionary who gave us Minority Report and Blade Runner, advised:
“If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your garage that’ll outwit the gadgets used by the authorities.”
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Today is february 17th, 1983.
"Today is february 17th, 1983."
Cryptic for Israel controls the world.
"... and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
They fixed that glitch...
Yep, now drop everything and enjoy your Two Minute Hate.
Obama says what?
Interesting to read "Industrial Society and Its Future" by Mr. T. Kaczynski (some former university professor).
Amongst Orwell and Huxley, maybe we should start quoating him too.
What is truly "Creepy, Calculating & Controlling" is the deafening silence now of all the Liberals and their MSM supporters who screamed bloody-murder at what George Bush was doing against personal liberties with the Patriot Act, etc during his Administration. Yes, it was awful, but now it turns out that what Bush did was mere rank amateurism compared to this corrupt Obama Socialist Communist Administration. They seek to control EVERY single aspect of our lives. And with that info they will try to destroy any and all of those who may try oppose them.
Oh, do you doubt me? Maybe you'd like to talk to Lois Lerner! (And we all thought Nixon was evil for using the IRS against his enemies. Obama says, "Ha! What an amateur! He could be impeached - I can't!")
Blaming _____ administration on anything is a moot point, as the plan marches forth, no matter the characters. They all serve the dark lord.
But it's the sheeple who actually WANT Big Brother watching cause they've become weak, helpless, mindless dependents on the state happy to live blindly to it all with their heads shoved up their iPhones.
It's not Big Brother you have to worry so much about now.
But your paranoid scared shitless neighbors turning you in for "suspicious activities"
Which will make everybody paranoid of everybody else so we all end up reporting all of us as suspicious.
The movie "Brazil" is moar like how we'll be living soon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wh2b1eZFUM
The State is a monster.
An evil, arrogant, deadly monster.
Is creepy really so bad?...
want to die today? run for a public office against gov.org with a platform against almost every law/exec order implimented since 911. the current system does not allow change for the little guy. simple, no alternative party allowed. even greece allowed that....
The single thing that one can do to regain "some" privacy is to throw away the tracking device you voluntarily pay for and tote around with you daily, your "smart phone".
Barring that, think of ways to use it against them, fully charge it, box it up and send it to yourself whenever you need a little privacy ;-)
But I'm totally addicted to paying for that thing to eat my bank account man!
Actually no. It needs to be said out loud MUCH MOAR. Calls for arrest of the law breaking imposter in the White Hut need to be mainstream.
Lunatic murdering progressive-Marxist America hater Obama and his brown shirts are going to ban plain rifle ammunition
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/dictator-in-chief-unleashes-newest-attack-on-...
and at the same time start to import ISIS to the USA in large quantities from Syria to give them "jobs"
The bloody progressives want to be able to kill law abiding American citizens without them being able to resist, and they want lots of Sunni ISIS murderers here to help do it. The "jobs" will be cutting heads of Christians here in the USA.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/syrian-refugee-program-called-back-door-for-j...
FOAD lawless murdering progressive scum.
Grimaldus
Yeah, right...
And his replacement will be pure as the wind-driven snow!
The State is the problem, not one placeholder within it.
The azzhoe in charge, however, sets the tone and in theory should honor the oath of office. Dont believe the guy occupying the CEO seat should ever be given a free pass for criminal, traitorous acts, e.g., Hitler regardless if u like or dont like jews in general. The fudgepacker liar in chief is tramplung the constitution with its chicken golf legs, destroying America & its middle class, enabling terrorist muslims, doubling the gubmint credit card debt all the while enjoying a tax payer funded obamascare exempt celebrity grand imperial golf lifestyle.
Not so many people realize that global surveillance can also have positive aspects. The kleptocracy is constantly being confronted with opposition from all over the world. Not only they read it in newspaper or watch on TV, they have found out that the resistance is deeply rooted in daily life of many people. There is no place to relax; from outside, inside and literally everywhere an incredible amount of gloomy and 'dangerous' messages flood their heads. Furthermore, many of those who have to handle the messages in secret agencies are facing different opinions and attitudes that wouldn't have to face otherwise, and that can eventually change their minds as well. This can, ironically, lead to a decay within the very internal structures of the system. No wonder, they are becoming paranoiac - no one would be able to bear such a burden without psychological consequences.
One thing that they'll soon realize is that people stop being scared and are getting braver, leaving the Orwellian fear behind. This is probably the scariest scenario they can imagine. The whole game can thus very easily turn upside down and they'll themselves become the victims of their own plot.
Not happening. They know how everything about you; you know almost nothing about them.
Need I mention Jerry Saville? Even the most insane and outrageous of them are shielded from our view.
What "dumber than a box of rocks" Geo W did/did not do is in the rear view mirror. But what the fudgepacker liar in chief did & continues to do is accelerate making tax paying US citizens criminals for exercising constitutional freedoms & rights while rewarding the illegal aliens flooding the southern borders as well as all its crony capitalists, wall street banker thieves and chosen progressive democrap minions with either freebies and/or massive wealth on the backs of tax paying serfs & peasants all the while basking in its celebrity grand imperial golf lifestyle. All this enabled by the likes of MSM pathological liars like obscenely overpaid "Helicopter Crash" Brian to keep feeding the unquestioning sheeple bullshit. If there is a microglimmer of hope for our freedoms, constitution & country, please le us know.
if you see that picture of VP Biden groping another drones wife while in public think of what he would do behind closed doors..that is the perfect picture of America today and what high .gov officials think of us and will do to us- anything they want. the mind set is very clear. I am surprised B 7 has not taken off on that image.
Nothing, he has Reggie in his mouth.
Privacy is not dead for the New World Order, which controls the spy equipment. Before, murderers had to case a potential victim, track his or her movements, trail them as they drove around to establish a pattern. Now, a few key strokes and Big Brother (a.k.a. Obama) can send a hit team to bump you off. Yet, for all the technology, there is no video record of the guys who planted RDX explosives in the Murrah federal building stairwells nor in Two World Trade Center stairwells. Nor are there any videos available from the security cameras on the Brooklyn street where Aaron Swartz lived and died on. The visitors who bumped Swartz off had the power to seize those security camera videos. Outsiders' lives are cheap for the New World Order.
George Owell 1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four is real !
“Big Brother is Watching You.”
George Orwell, 1984
“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
George Orwell, 1984
“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
Digitally, it started in Albuquerque, back in the late 70's
Is it no surprise that the world's most rich's man is all so the most well off ditigal spy of all time. It was not done by mere chance. It was far more than. I was just standing here, and low and behold...
Heh, my dad used to watch Bill Gates come out to accept pizza deliveries before MS hit it big. He was kind of made fun of, being a geeky little guy and all.
Late 70's BC with the invention of deities.
“JESUS” is the name of some nested computer system that’s “Always watching”.
This might be a good moment for a laff:
Axelrod the comedian: no Obama scandals!
http://tinyurl.com/ll43v24
As one that has actually HAD conversations with NSAGUY anf FBIGUY, on my front porch (not at the same time) with an insistance to look inside to make sure I didn't have dynamite and Nazi Flags in my living room (for real!)...this shit is for more realer than you can imagine.
As I told the FBIGuy "I'm a Crank, not a Kook! You pussies are too scared of the wrong fucking people."
Wish I had mentioned that the only 'Terrorists" they had caught so far were the ones they had set up, but at the time I was so amazed that I was now a world terrorist threat.
Fuck these bastards.
…I think.
No, today is tue feb 17 1982, just do the math and you'll be fine.
We're ALL criminals now!
This is not true for a certain class, some are more equal than others. If the tech made it so that the seers were seen too, then at least there would be equality. There is only oppression. Even in battling them, they define you and you solidify them.
Those TBTP pigs are not equal to you.
Can I get and STD from a TPTB pig?
Can I get and STD from a TPTB pig?
Before I even get erected...what's a TPTB pig?
Specifically, "TPTB".
Samantha Power, Phyllis M. Powers, Katherine L Powers, Stephanie Powers... One of the powers that be.
"If the tech made it so that the seers were seen too,"
Assange, Manning, Snowden, Fuck the EU. There's probably more.
PTI,
Around 1978, I moved from Boston (working as a MVS operating systems programmer consultant for New England Telephone) to Detriot to do the same for a company named American Natural Resources...during that time I met a guy who was a DBA and we become really good friends. He and his wife were both Perdue grads....she kept telling us that computers would become the tool of Satan..we both shrug it off as bullshit....now in 2015...20/20 hindsight says she was a prophet..and the human race is now enslaved by it....just thought I 'd share that tidbit....
Yes
But at the same time, would I ever read your info tidbit were it not for computers?
Computers are a tool, the globalists need it to implement their control grid - the peeps need it for mass peer to peer communication (a first in history)
In both cases the results are stunning
we've in fact reached that place. there is only one way out.
We desperately need -- The Great Repeal.
The genie cannot be stuffed back into the bottle.
I can't really argue against that fate, but to unify around A Grand Repeal is as about as non-ideological (read: possible) appeal as one can make.
Ideology? You must first get past the morally relativistic notion that some animals are more equal than others.
Perhaps an EMP from the sun would set things back. The NSA and all EMP-secured facilities would survive, but then who would they be watching? And who would be left to grow their food.
"'Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?' said Dr. Ferris. 'We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible
for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden,
that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.'"
Ayn Rand ('Atlas Shrugged' 1957)
FBI Interview on front porch.
I shrugged.
Fuck them.
my favorite quote of the entire 700 page book!
"The illusion of freedom [in America ] will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater."
~Frank Zappa
Zappa was wise. He only missed that the brick wall was surrounded by armed jackboot thugs. Every thug has his price.
I still fucking floor it... in NY they lowered speed limit to 25. . . yea . . . I still zip around at a comfortable 35~45 . . . its only practical.... on the highway in a 50mph zone most people go around 65 ~ 70 . . . because . . . 50mph fucking puts you to sleep its so slow . . .
The 55 mph law primarly serves a need by the police.
If you travel 60+ you can be pulled over(when they choose)
If you travel below the speed limit they can pull you over for acting suspicious.
Since nearly NOBODY travels the speedlimit, EVERYONE can be pulled over with/without probable cause.
They HAVE probable cause everytime.
That's why you go exactly at the speed limit. It trips everyone out.
"Why'd you pull me over, officer?"
"You were doing EXACTLY 55! What are the chances of that??"
I like to be passed, in Maryland, by a 23 year old Super Trooper, doing 80 miles an hour, on a cell phone, with an IBM mainframe in his console.
They must have special training.
I have been driving for 37 years, but I can't answer my cell phone while driving.
Fuck em. They are my enemy. I don't need or want their help. Fuck em.
In many places the safest speed is in the "9mph loophole" - policy is that they pull over people going 10 or more above the limit (since everybody exceeds the limit routinely). Even automatic-ticket speed cameras are programmed with this rule. In some contexts (where the customary speed is 10mph or more above the limit) this becomes a 19mph loophole.
a speed limit that is lower than what most people drive, is INCONTRAVERTABLE PROOF that we don't live in a democracy.
Funny thing. I was taught in elementary school that I lived in a republic. Now apparently it's a democracy. When did that vote happen? I missed it.
It used to be a Republic. Now it's an Oligarchy
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
no, it's not a democracy, that's the whole point.
and democracy is thought and spoken of highly in the west, as though it's some paradigm of government, but that's not the case. democracy is just tyranny of the majority, which inevitably ends up being usurped by oligarchs.
the highest pinnacle of governance, is anarchy... sadly, most people feel that humanity is not ready for it.
Be afraid. Be very afraid. If "they" think that you aren't afraid of them, then "they" will send the local jack-booted thugs to kill you.
Be very afraid.
With all this surveillance technology you'd think they'd be able to keep the FBI from radicalizing the mentally challenged and giving them the tools to go on murderous rampages........
This is what it looks like to fail. It's not as if the vast Stasi apparatus saved the E. German government.
nearing the endgame?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmtdbDr3GZQ
That is a little hard core for me. Try this one that fits your theme very closely.
Black Sabbath - Hand Of Doom (speaks to the people who have been Blind, how could you let this happen?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6C9PdTCySw (see a little Jazz influence sometimes)
SOB. They might be using pre-crime software in local BIG grocery stores now based on how you loiter over products, read product ingredients or nutrition data, or if you check for wrapped dinners in the deli area and are unsure if you are hungry for anything.
Yep. Ever get followed in a grocery store. Kind of pisses you off.
- And you get the same treatment next time since they have facial recognition software as well
Don't forget to stroll by the Reynold's Wrap and load up the cart.
It's a joke, son.
"The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government. While imperfect in its execution, the founders of our nation sought to make an exception to this ugly part of mankind's history. Unfortunately, at the urging of the American people, we are unwittingly in the process of returning to mankind's normal state of affairs." -Walter E. Williams
THey can watch me cooooome all over ther cameras that I bought. I could care less what they are listining to. If they want to know what I really think, they can come to ZH.
They're already here
No, we are watching you. Playing the who’s who game is beneath a government official IQ weighbridge
sniff, sniif. Oh looky, another card transmitting under a different frequency. Our Government lives in fear.
Espionage is the weapon of choice but it may bring them down someday. We all know that Snowdens revelations didn't even scratch the surface.
I would just laugh my ass off if some Kaspersky type had hacked, observed and documented everything these clowns have done for years... then released it. It's probably inevitable.
There was a time historically where The Pinkertin Corp. Thug Frauds never existed. There is absolutely no need for these Murderimg Psychopathci sociopathic Fascist Totalitarian Authoritarian Militarzied Police in today's society.
Open carry for all. Pack a Gun & pay NO Tax. And, these Overpaid Pigs with their Pensions living off the Criminal Fruad UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. & it's 50 State & Local Municipality Fraud Franchises can go Fuck themselves.
Thought Crime Law will come to you.
Tell me about it. It's happening, in real time.
The constitution gives no rights. The rights you have are natural rights sometimes called God given rights. What the constitution does contain is limitations on government rights. Every amendment limits the government.
The second amendment for example consists of two parts. The first explains the reason "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of free state" The second part states the limitation "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed"
Notice it is not telling us we have the right to keep and bear arms, it is telling the government that it cannot lawfully limit that right.
Note that this is the only place in the original constitution where the word necessary is used.
Some say it is no big deal that people think the constitution gives or guarantees certain rights but I differ. The founders knew that a piece of paper cannot give rights to people or guarantee their rights. When born those rights are automatically yours. And the only way to keep them is to defend them.
That said,,, those rights can be voluntarily given up either by action or by inaction. Silence is affirmation.
I like all of that.
I am interested in the concept of "Requirements" for a Democracy also as I picked up a couple of concepts in Wikipedia
Teeth's Rules, Requirements for Democracy (unfinished product)
- State of Justice
- Freedom of the Press
- Freedom of religion, lifestyle, smoke, drink, music, health, property, speech, internet, whistleblowing
- Representation
- "Legitimacy" a broad concept including free & fair Election, "Social Contract", government exist at the pleasure of the people not corporations/wealthy entities, too much money in election campaigns is sign of illegitimacy, foreign agents giving money to politicians, PACs, Think Tanks, and US Foundations is also a sign of illegitimacy
- Right to keep & bear arms
- Jurisdiction of State, County & City officials
- Localized Funding & Control over Federal Centralization and money creation without end
- States have the power to Audit Central Bank, Federal Budgets, Financial Ratings Agencies, and TBTF Banks or Corporations with Oligopolistic Power or Dominant Market Share at any level of Production, Distribution, or Retail
- Slave Labor of goods and services can be refused by the State or County regardless of Federal Treaties
- Organizations or Products which are found to have poor accounting & auditing practices can be Banned from State or County Jurisdictions
Every new generation seems to care less about rights and about their foundation - ownership of land and of the human body.
Abortion debate and shift to group rights instead of universtal human rights distracted us from the fact that our own lives, our kids and our families no longer belong to us. The state can take away any priviledge it wants at any time.
Land ownership - long gone. Kids think that renting and freeloading is what life's all about. Borrowing with zero down is perfectly fine... and the purpose of life is to be followed on twitter and have views on Youtube.
Right to own land, sound money, pursuit of liberty - they're not even at the bottom of their priorities list. New paradigm my ass.
They truley are sheep, they're told what to think with half truths and headlines no longer taught to read between the lines.... Soon enough they'll see what happens when they have no purpose in society
Serious matters require diligence and the attention span of kids has been reduced to the point where it can barely process a single thought. Music went from complex classical to rap beat where 2-3 notes alternate for 5 minutes. Marketing took care of art. Visuals are all pre-digested. Computer games, Netflix, addiction to gadgets. Shitty jobs aren't a problem because one simply tries to get by in order to get back to virtual world with its imaginary possessions and achievements. Virtual friends. Virtual status.
Pouring a bucket of cold water over your head like an idiot in order to enrich some organization that pockets 90% of the funds? Sure! All in!
Prevent a buddy from getting tazered for standing up for his rights? None of my business!
100's of online friends with not a single one willing to do something a real friend would do - make sacrifice.
That's why revolution is impossible. There is no social spirit. People aren't willing to sacrifice anything - not for their own good, not for eachother. When presented with real issues and real dangers, crowds disperse and all those facebook likes will not translate into a single helping hand.
Some worry about drones up in the sky. I worry about drones walking around glued to their cell phones. No wonder Walking Dead gets such high ratings.
That pretty well sums up where we are. Now as to where we are going, the Robot R3volution is coming, and with it most jobs the Sheep are capable of. If we can find a pattern, we can make an algorithm to replicate it. Robot dexterirty, 3d printing, driverless cars, are all about to take a lot of jobs. Not too mention boring things like accounting. Oh well when is the new iPhone coming out?
But according to the Guide Stone only 500 million iPhones will be required in the near future.
Note to self: find a remote place, a very, very remote place.
3 percent, Julia, 3 percent. I suspect it has always been so.
Nobody ever forgets where he buries a hatchet.
Having intense discussion with my ten month old (and fucking walking) grandson's mother at present.
Re: Home Schooling. She's a reasonably sharp girl, for a blonde, who is surrounded by a family of nurses, accountants...ok, she's surrounded by a bunch of meatheads...but she has ME...and I'm NOT a meathead (though I portray one on Zero Hedge). Helping her cheat her way through University of Phoenix has been hard only because the "professors" are morons.
DO NOT allow those you love to take 'online classes'. They are worthless.
[Grandfather's gloat...Ten months old and walking LIKE A MAN! Kid gets his ass off the ground and stands! Fuck those that don't have a clue.]
Obama's gypsy oasis circle.
We can turn over all assets to a family member for 1 dollar. Renounced are US Citizenship. Slip back over the border as a illegal immigrate. Get a IRS tax bonus. You pay family member 1 dollar to acquire your assets back. Family member repeats your journey to collect IRS tax benefits and free healthcare.
/Sarc
No, not sarc. I have been saying for a year, " it's better now, to be undocumented in the USA".
These fuckers get a pass on everything, and OUR politicians trip over each other to tongue punch an illeagal's fart box.
What a great article! I have been warning bout this for years. The surveillance state is here with a vengeance.
The only way to stop it is to enact a NUMA or Fourth Branch. In my book, The Fourth Branch, I explain how it would work, the way it would work, the possibilities and the dangers.
Since I don't expect to get rich, (or even make any money at all), I have made it 80% free. Read the free part, and if you agree, spread the word to help stop the dystopian future we and our children face.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/277193
The one thing in the article which really chaffs my hide is that regarding cell phone service. The government Kill Switch kills off cell service, yet the FCC doesn't allow any jamming or willful blocking of cell signals in theatres, concert halls, libraries, and other places where a cellphone can be distracting to say the least, the Commission stating emphatically that emergencies may need to be reported, among other reasons. So essentially, bureaucracy "A" trumps bureaucracy "B" so Rome can burn even more and more. Who's responsible? Nobody! Just as no banker goes to prison for letting the drug $$ flow. It's just another huge fine, a cost of "doin' bidness" today.
Come on! This is almost too much nonsense to handle, but that's Big Brother for you!
Do you remember this?
http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2011/news20110812
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DHS 2015: The Secretary's Progress Report
http://www.dhs.gov/DHSin2015
Ministry - Faith Collapsing
In Gulliver's Travels, the narrator mentions how the governments of most nations only punish, but do not reward. The Lilliputians though reward citizens for being good citizens, which offers a nice balance to punishing the criminals.
But yeah...the governments want people to break the laws so the can issue fines and fees. That's a multimillion dollar industry. Parking tickets alone can bring in millions a year in just one city. What's missing is classes on how to avoid breaking laws.
Maybe after the Great Reset.
We do it to ourselves and always "for the children"
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And I'll bet the plebes will go for this like flies to .....
70 years later and the Sheep haven't learned. They'll soon be cannon fodder, food for the worms.
Ironically, it's the Socialists, Trade Unionists and Zionists who are coming for us this time.
No badge=criminal. With badge= free pass.
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In the future, these will be illegal. A stick with that can mount a spray can on them.
This'll fix the ƒµç?¡?? cameras!
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Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, ride out your CR. Plan to get defunded. If you want to experience dreams and measles, head off to Disneyland. CDC is also begging for your sort of funding program approval.
In the meantime ride the CR and piss off on your dreamy power point wants and needs. Did I hear you say your crisis begins on Febuary 27, 2015?
Interesting that DHS is not getting funding actually.
"The Joe Lieberman special."
Truly massive Agency actually....
Funding from another source?
The same pussy whipped banking cartel that loves to suck dicks instead of servicing their wife. You don't need a degree at MIT to figure it out.
Sick fucks wondering around.
I ‘am so rich and bored, have to find a new hobby.
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Honestly, the pedophiles are at the helm. If you ridicule them enough, they will disappear. Just waiting until they push pedophiles sex marriage.
/Hahahhahaa
Coming next. After queer coupling is the new normal. And mark my words, normal is not good enough. It will be promoted as better.
Now, if your queer, that's your business . I wish you no harm. But know this, your wires are crossed. Do what you must, but leave society alone. When the tipping point comes, you'll wish you were in the closet. The pendulum always overshoots.
Gee with all this spying on our every move one might think corruption wouldnt be so rampent. Maybe its not the tool but how its being used?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -Juneval
Who is to guard the guards (themselves)
It is like asking a CB to audit itself -what answer do you expect but "Everything is Awesome!"
It is the rampant corruption in our rulers that is the reason why we need to be monitored so. Confucius said the people follow their leaders, into virtue or vice.
Since the elite are unwilling to lead us into virtue, they must stop us from following them into vice.
Who gave the private sector the right to publicize everything?
Why is not just my data but ME being stolen?
And what about "we" being stolen as well?
This is Hobbes' Leviathan where the State has declared a condition of "all against all.". For mere rights here...who is trying to stop the descent into total anarchy here?
Certainly not Federal "authority."
I do think the Separation of Powers clause does apply in the matter of NSA versus say..the State of Florida.
Certainly there is no basis in, ahem..."God's Law" in any of this.
Indeed our very freedoms which allow for so much difference between us all in race, belief, philosophy, biology, etc may in fact be used to subvert the very idea of law and order.
Certainly is great news for Wall Street of course....
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration faces a difficult and possibly lengthy legal battle to overturn a Texas court ruling that blocked his landmark immigration overhaul, since the judge based his decision on an obscure and unsettled area of administrative law, lawyers said.
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-judges-immigration-rebuke-may-hard-challenge...
That'll work.
Or you can do what I did. Become a porn star.
You'll meet all the higher ups and never have to pay for another meal again.
Darn!
Just when you thought it was safe to go outside and lay around naked.
First sentence should read, "None of us is perfect."
Grammar Police
Glad I live here....Bumbaclod!
and lets not forget the wonders of paralell construction!
We have to remember that IP protocol (later TCP/IP) was developed by ARPA for Pentagon in late 1950-ties as one of many new telecommunication standards allowing communication through distributed network between command and control centers under nuclear attack. Most of them are still classified. They implemented only standards/protocols that allow precise tracking of the communication/information unit as intrinsic characteristic, which cannot be eliminated.
Therefore, being relatively simple TCP/IP and other related protocols specifically “designed” to “natively” track source and destination of information, were heavily invested in, supported and later commercialized. The natively anonymous communication protocols and standards (hybrid analog/digital and others) developed for Pentagon were suppressed.
All the brainy security companies are out there for sole purpose to proliferate big lie that you can, for money, retain your privacy on Internet. You can’t. You think deep encryption!!! Think again. All the keys to most common hardware/software pseudorandom generators are hacked and any sequence of so-called “unique” IDs can be reproduced. Every network timestamp may be algorithmically reproduced and logs fixed. Every hash reproduced with moderate effort. All computers on the Internet have embedded in BIOS, HD firmware, and network cards, routers backdoors enabling full control. All this is possible because of native capability of IP protocol.
But that does not even matter anymore. No need for BiGDaTa mining or analysis for absolute control. The perception of overarching surveillance of population is enough to disrupt and suppress human to human relations with fog of mistrust and suspicions and hence irony of E. Snowden futile personal sacrifice in all of it.
More on that can be found at
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/01/06/snowden-affair-unaske...
Bleat?
Just wondering. What would happen to the surveillance state if a massive EMP rolled out of the sun at us? Who would be left to take care of the guys in the hardened bunkers?
Ive heeard good things about Equador
Why don't I feel much safer now?
As Macreant said there is no going back. We're in the early formation of a global collective consciesness, a reality both exciting and frightening.
As per norm in history, those with capital will take advantage of new tools for control and to lock out competition.
I think it is clear who the criminals are, and what to do about it.
Q&A The 2001 Disclosure Briefings Illegal NSO
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Part 1 of 17 Dr Greer's Introduction to Free Energy
Part 2 - Black Shelving
Part 3 - Pitfalls of Launching
Part 4 - Announcement of an $100,000 Award
Part 6 - Industry then has to be Capitalized
Part 7 - The Tragedy of Stan Meyer
Part 8 - The CSETI Networking App
Part 9 - Q&A: The Strategy for Free Energy
Part 10 - Q&A: The Atacama Humanoid
Part 11 - Q&A: NSO National Security Order
Part 12 - Q&A: Government Manipulation
Part 13 - Q&A: Disappearance of Corporations
Part 14 - Q&A: The 2001 Disclosure Briefings
Part 15 - Q&A: The ET Presence
Part 16 - Q&A: The Ascended Masters
Part 17 - Q&A: Time and Space Lab
Blueprint for a ETV (Interview by Steven Greer)
http://disclosureproject.org/
http://www.siriusdisclosure.com/
Brian O'Leary - Energy Solution Revolution - Part 1
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What's really going on (Part 1/4)
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Dr Steven Greer 2015 | International Congress Full Documentary
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