tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post8825327426131009613..comments2024-03-19T08:42:45.690-04:00Comments on The Delaware Libertarian: Glenn Greenwald nails the hypocrisy of Barack Obama and the disgusting politics of Diane Feinstein ...Steven H. Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09097470960863103473noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-70645569194534113972012-12-30T03:00:45.734-05:002012-12-30T03:00:45.734-05:00I concur. You don't sneak things through whe...I concur. You don't sneak things through when you think no one cares. You sneak things through to be sneaky...<br /><br />Oops... too late... got to wait 5 years now.<br /><br />The main press dropped this big time. People want their internet to be free. CISPA and ACTA both were sneaked through, but got caught, and those pushing it got hung out to dry.... Remember every time you clicked onto Google it had your congressman's phone number and you were told to call him... <br /><br />In 2007 it was acknowledged in court that the US was recording every transaction and every phone call made in the US. That is a lot of info and the enormous size alone protects our privacy. The idea was that once someone popped up as a potential suspect, one could go back probably to 2005 and sift through everything they've done. Had an affair? They'd use the threat of exposing it to solicit untrue information.... and have you incriminate another... <br /><br />Hopefully none here on this blog has anything they need to keep secret.. because if anyone looks, it is there...<br /><br />So, yes. People care... I was disheartened that the Saturday papers all slanted it as listening to foreign calls on foreign soils... That is not the turth of this bill at all. In fact the amendment to disclose how many Americans were caught up in this, came close, but was defeated....<br /><br />The problem is most Americans (look at the outrage when Facebook loosens their privacy settings) don't even know it is happening .. I wouldn't if I hadn't been looking into it during the last passage of it in 2008... I'm so mad at myself. I wish I had remembered that is was supposed to expire..... <br /><br />I don't have access to the links right now, but it would be wise to remember the case just this year, where an ex marine was arrested, (he thought it was a tv stunt at first) held without access to an attorney three states away in a military brig, for.... what turned out, was the lines of a rap song he'd been trying to sing in person, but had forgotten, and so, he typed them on facebook and sent them over.... In that exchange, AP got information and published that over 10,000 were being incarcerated without trial..<br /><br />So. the answer is yes, I think every one cares... it is just that they know nothing about it... Our world is simply too big right now... <br /><br />This is where... I say Happy New Year.kavipshttp://kavips.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7893272060787897238.post-14227713628445266112012-12-29T20:08:00.757-05:002012-12-29T20:08:00.757-05:00"... but does anybody really care?"
Ste...<i>"... but does anybody really care?"</i><br /><br />Steve,<br /><br />Last year, the NDAA went down around this time. The speculation was the ruling castes thought it best to slip it in while the "citizens" were preoccupied with Xmas spending, traveling and such. So maybe our rulers believe we care. <br /><br /> Anyway...Happy New Year.delacratnoreply@blogger.com