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Sunday, August 14, 2011

America's secret political police are at it again.

Privacy Groups Protest Massive DHS Database of Secret Watchlists.

Homeland Security plans to operate a massive new database of names, photos, birthdays and biometrics called Watchlist Service, duplicated from the FBI's Terrorist Screening Database which has proven not to be accurate many times in the past. DHS wants to exempt the Watchlist Service from Privacy Act provisions, meaning you will never know if you are wrongfully listed. Privacy groups worried about inaccurate info and mission creep have filed a protest, arguing the Privacy Act says DHS must notify subject of government surveillance.

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Guffaw in AZ said...: Duly reposted and linked, h/t to you, Mike.
If we had a real press, this would be all over the place!
thx,
gfa; August 14, 2011 at 2:01 PM
Old NFO said...: Now that is just flat scary... no oversight? No capability to refute? That will NOT end well for us...; August 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM
Mark Matis said...: I have NO DOUBT that US "Law Enforcement" will fully honor their oaths of office to "...preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution..." and will arrest those responsible for this treason.

Don't you agree?; August 14, 2011 at 4:51 PM
Pilgrims' Pride said...: I've long wondered why our crop of tyrants, as the Bolsheviks and Nazis before them, pay such attention to the "legality" of their acts of oppression and suppression.

Perhaps this is a transitional state to good. old fashioned strongman politics.

At least you can respect a strongman. There is no doubt who's in charge and where you fit in his scheme of things.; August 14, 2011 at 5:26 PM
hellferbreakfast said...: Apparently, Mike, you have hit a nerve. Based on the retaliation from the fbi & dhs. (not capitalized because useless alphabet gestapo gangs don't earn it).; August 14, 2011 at 7:22 PM
Bad Cyborg said...: And so those who would grind us down to accept the despotism of the elites take yet another step towards their own destruction. If they realized where their path was heading they would reverse course. Sadly, if they were able to perceive the precipice towards which they are so resolutely marching they would never have chosen that course in the first place.

DAMN! but I despise statists! The patrifellating oedipae are not only mucking up their OWN future but MINE as well! Worse, they're mucking up my GRANDCHILDREN'S futures TOO!; August 14, 2011 at 8:03 PM
Bad Cyborg said...: Old NFO wrote "That will NOT end well for us..."

I don't know. Likely to end better for US than for THEM!

"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right."(Victor Hugo); August 14, 2011 at 9:21 PM
W W Woodward said...: Unless and until the bureaucrats who survive from administration to administration are disposed of we will see more and more of this meddling in our private lives.

We are pissing up a rope with our complaints because the people who are really in control have utter contempt for us as well as for the legislature, the administration and the justice system. We citizens and the people we hire to allegedly represent us need to jerk some chains not just to get their attention but to break some necks.

Many folks act surprised about ATF, FBI, DHS, CIA and others of the fed's acronymic army's involvement in Gunwalker. No surprise to me. Those leaches have been f**king over the American public for decades. They have told us over and over again, "We're the government and we can do whatever we want to you. There's nothing you can do about it."

The arrogant bastards actually feel they aren't required to justify their actions to anyone.

[W3]; August 14, 2011 at 9:23 PM
WarriorClass III said...: Bring them down.

Break the Code:

https://sites.google.com/site/primenumbertheory/

WarriorClass
III; August 15, 2011 at 8:24 AM

"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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