ACLU Challenges the FISA Amendments Act »
Posted By Beeboppin71 2 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsThe Constitution is the bedrock of our democracy; it ensures Americans the right to privacy and free speech. Electronic surveillance is highly invasive. By reading our emails and listening to our phone calls the government gets direct access to our thoughts, our feelings, our associates and our political views. The power to spy is easily abused...
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tehranchik2 months, 3 weeks ago
Has anyone seen the old black and white movie--'Colossus, the Forbin Project'?
Soon we might have to turn the music up, run the water and create noise diversions, just to have a private conversation.
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hyperbola2 months, 3 weeks ago
As usual the corporate media are fully in favor of such developments and do not tell Americans how bad the FISA act really is.
The New FISA Compromise: It's Worse than You Think
Politics รข;; The FISA Amendments Act of 2008 opens up loopholes so large that the feds could drive a truck loaded down with purloined civil liberties through it. So the telecom immunity stuff is just the smoke; let's take a look at the fire.
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/07/19/...
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Tcaros2 months, 3 weeks ago
For those who think science fiction becomes fact there's a connection. Often movies are pre-cursors in kind of what could possibly happen. In fact, nowadays the entertainment industry has become like the controled news channels; using it to silence dissenting views.
There's a real problem when the state believes it needs extroadinary powers to manage it's citizenship or protect them from harm. The problem; It will be abused and it will be used for the wrong reasons by the wealthy and powerful.
In 2002 (shortly after 9/11) the movie minority report came out. It was about a police state that used pre-cogs to stop criminals before they commmitted crimes. Sounds pretty good, unless they get it wrong. Replace the pre-cogs with a "surveillance technology" that literally invades your life. Add a country full of people who don't want to be on the "minority report." What you have is the perfect system to destroy people by getting a lien into their life.
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