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Friday, February 10, 2012

Just in case you run into someone who doubts that DHS is a secret political police agency.

EPIC v. Department of Homeland Security: Media Monitoring

EPIC - FOIA Documents Reveal Homeland Security is Monitoring Political Dissent: As the result of EPIC v. DHS, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, EPIC has obtained nearly thee hundred pages of documents detailing a Department of Homeland Security's surveillance program. The documents include contracts and statements of work with General Dynamics for 24/7 media and social network monitoring and periodic reports to DHS. The documents reveal that the agency is tracking media stories that "reflect adversely" on DHS or the U.S. government. One tracking report -- "Residents Voice Opposition Over Possible Plan to Bring Guantanamo Detainees to Local Prison-Standish MI" -- summarizes dissent on blogs and social networking cites, quoting commenters. EPIC sent a request for these documents in April 2004 and filed suit against the agency in December.

So, does that make General Dynamics a legitimate target if the federal government begins to wage war on the people? Just askin'.

11 comments:

WarriorClass III said...: "...if the federal government begins to wage war on the people?"

If? They're already acting like they've won.; February 10, 2012 at 5:46 AM
Anonymous said...: Shades of Tricky Dick Nixon!!
What next? Dressing the Red Shed (that's White House to the rest of you) guards in bandleader uniforms??

B Woodman
III-per; February 10, 2012 at 6:16 AM
Old NFO said...: Good question... and whom do we have 'inside' GD???; February 10, 2012 at 7:03 AM
Da Curly Wolf said...: How a conversation with me ends when someone brings up DHS and says what a great thing it is. "What to do you mean it's a good thing and does a good job? It's a government bureaucracy with it's head so far up it's ass it couldn't find it's cheeks with a map a flashlight and a goddamn GPS unit! Oh and by the way? we HAVE a Department of Homeland Security already. It's called the US Military! So pray tell me oh genius of geniuses...what the HELL do we need ANOTHER ONE FOR!!"

'but they tie all that together and make the agencies cooperate.

It's at that point that I usually walk away...while muttering about bleach and the gene pool under my breath; February 10, 2012 at 7:22 AM
The Packetman said...: "So, does that make General Dynamics a legitimate target if the federal government begins to wage war on the people? Just askin'."

I thought the very same thing ...; February 10, 2012 at 7:47 AM
SWIFT said...: It is beyond question or plausible deniability that Janet Napolitano has absolutely no moral regard for her solemn oath of office. Like soooo many others in government, he probably figures he's on his way to hell anyway, so what's the big deal. Totalitarian scum like Obama, Napolitano, John Pistole, Mueller and others, may win for a while, but immoral people are doomed. They will eventually lose, both in this life and the next! It is written. So, let them keeping pushing us into a civil war. The outcome is not in doubt, though costly for both sides.; February 10, 2012 at 8:21 AM
Anonymous said...: Well, Uh, YES!!; February 10, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Anonymous said...: Gee, now why would the government consider that they need to know what the public is thinking so badly, that they need to monitor the content of communications between citizens and thus abrogate their constitutional rights?

The answer is that they need to anticipate the public's actions and reactions in regard to their actions in order to contain and manipulate them so that they may control the situations they desire. There will be mission creep and then every bad thing you can imagine will transpire. There is no question that this will happen because these people have proven their untrustworthy natures and given power they seek to expand and abuse it to the maximum possible extent. So, they need to monitor the public.

You know we keep having to learn this lesson over and over and there are always dead bodies involved due to "security" concerns.

The Soviets have nothing on us now. We will surpass them and I suspect that our cruelty will as well. They are trying to survive by anticipation and IDENTIFICATION, which allows them to preempt, interdict and suppress the population and to be their masters. They of course will deny it but they are liars and they lie very well and convincingly, using tax dollars to fund it all.; February 10, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Pvt.Joker said...: @ WarriorClass:
That's because they haven't really begun. Once they start zipping their own into body bags, they won't look quite so confident.; February 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Anonymous said...: ...And the Sovietization of the bureaucracy proceeds apace.; February 10, 2012 at 5:44 PM
Anonymous said...: "So, does that make General Dynamics a legitimate target if the federal government begins to wage war on the people? Just askin'."

YES; February 12, 2012 at 3:17 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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