Sipsey Street Irregulars: More on inter-agency cooperation in the age of the Digital Stasi.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

More on inter-agency cooperation in the age of the Digital Stasi.

Reuters Exclusive: IRS manual detailed DEA's use of hidden intel evidence.

Details of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program that feeds tips to federal agents and then instructs them to alter the investigative trail were published in a manual used by agents of the Internal Revenue Service for two years.

Also: Broader Sifting of Data Abroad Is Seen by N.S.A.

The National Security Agency is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans’ e-mail and text communications into and out of the country, hunting for people who mention information about foreigners under surveillance, according to intelligence officials.

The N.S.A. is not just intercepting the communications of Americans who are in direct contact with foreigners targeted overseas, a practice that government officials have openly acknowledged. It is also casting a far wider net for people who cite information linked to those foreigners, like a little used e-mail address, according to a senior intelligence official.

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Mt Top Patriot said...: Mike,
Your narrative of loosing the mandate of heaven and crisis of legitimacy has begun to sink in, and or, a gestalt so to say is taking place. It is popping up all over the web. As you so succinctly are fond of saying, "Welcome to the party Pal!" Planting of this seed of doubt is quietly becoming a sprouting seed of revolt. It is alynskism in reverse with the power of the truth.
They say timing is everything. Solidarity of a narrative regarding the rank gross illegitimacy of the leviathan across the sphere of the new media will do more for the cause of Liberty, and bring further cause to defeat this facade of totalitarianism, than exposure of any ten aspects regarding the wonton corruption and tyranny breathing down our necks. It is the key of it all. Nothing, no other aspect is as powerful as the most basic idea of the origins of doubt in the hearts of Americans. Many intuitively know something is deeply and terribly wrong. The idea that behind these doubts and concerns that somewhere in lies the truth that our government, the people who control it do so outside the mandate of legitimate power entrusted in them. It is not so much the scope of transgressions, but root exposure of the very core of treason and treachery of our government and in particular of the elitist cabal in power.
Might be off the mark on this, but of all the things you have wrote, the illegitimacy and monopoly of violence takes a back seat to no other aspect of the leviathans system of tyranny.

The idea of legitimacy may seem simple, and to those who grasp the profound nature of the truth something almost taken for granted as the natural order of tyranny, for many though this is a revolutionary idea.
An idea that needs to become culturally legitimate.

The axiom about how in a time of universal deceit, the truth is a revolutionary idea, well right there is the linchpin of resistance to tyranny.

Claire Wolfe gives you an important and honorable mention over at her blog in her second piece about illegitimacy of power.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2013/08/06/americas-ubergovernment-and-the-rest-of-us/; August 8, 2013 at 8:41 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.

Sipsey Street Irregulars

Thursday, August 8, 2013

More on inter-agency cooperation in the age of the Digital Stasi.

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