Sipsey Street Irregulars: "Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection."

Sunday, October 9, 2011

"Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection."

12 comments:

Scott J said...: I wonder how the system will read basic situational awareness as Col. Cooper taught in his book "Principles of Personal Defense"; October 9, 2011 at 7:43 AM
Mark Matis said...: I would merely note that "What ELSE would one expect from 'Law Enforcement' in this country?"

But I'm sure that most of them are fine upstanding chaps, and this is only the work of a few rare bad apples who will be quickly brought to task by the overwhelming numbers of their good peers.

Or not. Yet again, the stench is overwhelming.; October 9, 2011 at 7:52 AM
Sean said...: They're gonna be real mad when they get to me.; October 9, 2011 at 9:13 AM
Aiken Patriot said...: You would think they would stay away from a word like FAST to name a program! Clueless numbskulls.; October 9, 2011 at 9:14 AM
Longbow said...: Mark, buddy...

Just relax and repeat the mantra,

"If you haven't committed a crime and aren't about to, you have nothing to worry about."

There now. Feel better?; October 9, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Anonymous said...: Swear to God, it's like the constitution and bill of rights never existed at all. Can you hear them rattling around in the tripwires?

Those are the ones who got tangled up, the others made it through.; October 9, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Anonymous said...: Science fiction trying to become political fact -- or --

How Philip K Dick's "Minority Report" went from book and film and into my real life.

Tried to open the link to read the full article & my computer couldn't/wouldn't go there.

B Woodman
III-per

wv: snism - the ism of sn.; October 9, 2011 at 12:45 PM
The Colonel said...: well I hear the little voices in my head and I answer them plus my meds keep my heart rate way down.So I should be able to get by this new stuff. I also have other pills that numb my thoughts . What else are they going to come up with!! AS CAPTAIN DAN SAID "is that all you got ".; October 9, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Mark Matis said...: Longbow, I've got some OTHER words I repeat rather frequently that make me feel better.; October 9, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Pete said...: MM - I, too, am the family pessimist. It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it!; October 9, 2011 at 10:45 PM
Anonymous said...: Hmmm - does anyone else get the feeling that when you boil this down to its lowest common denominator, it is simply PROFILING? Admittedly it is wrapped up in high tech computer mumbo jumbo but at its heart it is still just predicting potential future behavior based on essentially an educated guess.
And we all remember how the movie and the book turned out................; October 10, 2011 at 9:17 AM
Anonymous said...: I wonder if HS has a computer program that will show how many LEO's will die because of HS's stupidity.; October 10, 2011 at 1:24 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Sunday, October 9, 2011

"Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection."

12 comments:

Blog Archive

Followers