Sipsey Street Irregulars: Your Tax Dollars at Work: The Secret Surveillance State, federal hogs at trough get fatter and none of it has "consent of the governed."

Monday, July 19, 2010

Your Tax Dollars at Work: The Secret Surveillance State, federal hogs at trough get fatter and none of it has "consent of the governed."

From the Washington Post, "Top Secret America."

ClearanceJobs.com poster in DC.

From the AltlanticWire.com, What's in the WaPo story that terrifies the "Intelligence Community."

And, in a related story, "Reality gap: U.S. struggles, D.C. booms."

Small wonder, then, that only "23% Say U.S. Government Has the Consent of the Governed."

WE DO NOT CONSENT, AND WE WILL RESIST.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: The problem is that Dana Priest has committed treason not that the intelligence agency is trying to get intelligence in various ways. She published a hit list for our enemies. Isn't it odd that someone released a list of illegal aliens in Utah to the press and the only response is to search for that person so they can punish them and this reporter released classified information that will harm the U.S. and nothing will happen to her. Dana Priest's "connections" are very questionable including her close connection with communist groups. Do you really believe she wrote this story because she is a good honest reporter?; July 19, 2010 at 9:21 AM
legal alien said...: Mike,

Not 100% on subject, but definitely a relationship between your posted "Surveillance" article, is the article at the link below, wrt to Google and their being in bed with .gov national security agencies. GO read and consider implications

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/googles-wi-spying-and-intelligence-ties-prompt-call-for-congressional-hearing-98769559.html; July 19, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Dedicated_Dad said...: Anon #1 (only visible comment at this time): I read the article without any preconceived notions, and I believe you're overreacting. Further, any "official" statements of a similar sort to yours are simply more misinformation issued in an attempt to redirect public outrage from them - where it belongs - to the reporter.

A *CLASSIC* case of the miscreants screaming "HURRY!! SHOOT THE MESSENGER!!"

Every building she named is clearly labeled/signed/etc and known to the locals. As she said, all the information she "disclosed" is a matter of public record -- and if you don't think our enemies already knew it, you're delusional!

I don't know if she's a commie - and in this case I don't care. It's irrelevant.

The fact is that we've spent untold billion$, and thrown over a quarter of a million warm bodies at this task, and accomplished NOTHING.

NOTHING.

Actually, not exactly nothing -- we've ensured that folks like *US* will be the victims of the attention of these hordes of new "spies."

See, they've got to produce. They've got to protect their rice-bowl. They've got to justify their place at the trough -- and they can't do so by producing the same thing everyone else is producing - so they focus on the low-hanging fruit.

Why try (and fail) to track down one invisible guy on the other side of the world - when 249,999 others are already on him - when you can focus on some loud-mouth local and be *SURE* of "getting your man?"

This article shows EXACTLY why the .gov sucks at everything it does. It shows why the simply STAGGERING level of waste, fraud and abuse is totally unavoidable.

It shows why there's simply no way in hell we can ever possibly fix this in a voting-booth...

G*d help us...

DD

PS: WV="prostwin" -- the prostitutes (WHORES) win every time!; July 19, 2010 at 11:41 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Your Tax Dollars at Work: The Secret Surveillance State, federal hogs at trough get fatter and none of it has "consent of the governed."

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