Absolutely unbelievable. First they throw the U.S. constitution in the trash and then they want to charge us for it? They deserve the death penalty for treason, not Moussaoui.
Isn't this like paying "protection money" - but without the "protection"?
Maybe we should all have to supply keys to our homes and the combinations to our safes....
After all, don't terrorists use houses and safes?
Sure they do!
Hey! Maybe we can mandate glass houses so that the cops can just drive by and see "what we're up to in there".
In fact, we could even mandate no hard drives for personal or business use. We could stop the sale and use of home PCs - so that you can only use a terminal attached to a government mainframe that logs your every keystroke and e-move.
Maybe we could even force people to work and play naked. That way they can't hide anything under thier clothes.
As for evil suitcases, bags and purses - they have to be made of clear plastic that allows a transparent view of everything inside (which must be only 1 layer....nothing stacked on top of anything else - lest Sam not be able to see it at a glance).
Odd thing is.....even is we enacted all of these ridiculous suggestions, they'd STILL screw it up.
Loss of freedom is not freedom from harm. It is harm.
... so can everyone else. One of the most serious problems with this, of course, is that it opens up everyone involved to being snooped on by people other than the authorities.
I don't know if it is still true, but at one time, the number of wiretaps performed by people other than law enforcement was some 10-fold that of law enforcement itself.
Many of these systems are operable over various phone networks and the Internet. Knowledgable persons have considerable ability to monitor whatever/whoever they choose. While I suppose that it's not a serious issue for the average Joe, I suspect that a lot of industrial espionage is facilitated this way.
This is the corporate equivalent of the draft. Forcing America's corporations into being unwilling conscripts in the war on terror (or drugs, or pr0n, or...). The longer this goes on the more in common we'll have with our "trading partner" China. Except that China will kick our ass because they've been practicing this whole police state/mixed economy for far longer. The current version of the GOP are newbies at maufacturing a fascist police state, but boy they sure learn quick.
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After all, don't terrorists use houses and safes?
Sure they do!
Hey! Maybe we can mandate glass houses so that the cops can just drive by and see "what we're up to in there".
In fact, we could even mandate no hard drives for personal or business use. We could stop the sale and use of home PCs - so that you can only use a terminal attached to a government mainframe that logs your every keystroke and e-move.
Maybe we could even force people to work and play naked. That way they can't hide anything under thier clothes.
As for evil suitcases, bags and purses - they have to be made of clear plastic that allows a transparent view of everything inside (which must be only 1 layer....nothing stacked on top of anything else - lest Sam not be able to see it at a glance).
Odd thing is.....even is we enacted all of these ridiculous suggestions, they'd STILL screw it up.
Loss of freedom is not freedom from harm. It is harm.
Want to save the world? Educate it.
I don't know if it is still true, but at one time, the number of wiretaps performed by people other than law enforcement was some 10-fold that of law enforcement itself.
Many of these systems are operable over various phone networks and the Internet. Knowledgable persons have considerable ability to monitor whatever/whoever they choose. While I suppose that it's not a serious issue for the average Joe, I suspect that a lot of industrial espionage is facilitated this way.
corporations into being unwilling conscripts in the war on terror (or
drugs, or pr0n, or...). The longer this goes on the more in common
we'll have with our "trading partner" China. Except that China will
kick our ass because they've been practicing this whole police
state/mixed economy for far longer. The current version of the
GOP are newbies at maufacturing a fascist police state, but boy
they sure learn quick.