Subjects now instead of Citizens?
This earlier post has made its rounds in the blogs and deserves a second look. It may very well qualify for one of the compelling issues being promulgated as a distraction from the pending Telcom Immunity vote:
America rose up to the abuses of government and forged its separation from England for those reasons as delineated in the Declaration of Independence. What Donald Kerr proposes above, is nothing less than a return to life as "subjects" rather than citizens of this powerful nation.
"Publius" was the moniker for "Anonymous" in those days. It is what helped win the revolution. Gentlemen's affairs were their own business. The notion of a "nanny state", to micromanage every detail of the People's lives would have been held anathema.
The Operations flip-side of the Surveillance Society has hidden hands that make bad things happen, in order to shape people's lives in a Mission Impossible-like scenario. I can assure you full well that Operations works in real time along side Surveillance using psychological and behavioral science to shape behavior in real time. Better known examples of this are the BSCT Teams, or "Behavioral Science Consultation Teams", such as reported at Guantanamo.
While "Operations" is complex, I can give you a simple example, such as when I make strongly worded posts to blogs, I often immediately receive (a) phone call(s) (clearly on a speaker phone on the other end), displaying an intimidating caller ID such as, (to paraphrase): "Extrord Renditn", or "Re Ed Camp", or the like. Accusations that they are stalkers draws an enthusiastic response of, "Yes!"
What good does actual jury service play in a world like this? When all is known and clearly deviating from the government's side will result in reprisals?
If Socialism is condemned because it robs individuals of incentives towards accumulating private property, what happens to incentive where the government is stealing private information and essentially file-sharing with others, who are in a much better position to profit from it than the ones it has been surveilled from?
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A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy.
'Privacy no longer can mean anonymity', says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. 'Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.'"
America rose up to the abuses of government and forged its separation from England for those reasons as delineated in the Declaration of Independence. What Donald Kerr proposes above, is nothing less than a return to life as "subjects" rather than citizens of this powerful nation.
"Publius" was the moniker for "Anonymous" in those days. It is what helped win the revolution. Gentlemen's affairs were their own business. The notion of a "nanny state", to micromanage every detail of the People's lives would have been held anathema.
The Operations flip-side of the Surveillance Society has hidden hands that make bad things happen, in order to shape people's lives in a Mission Impossible-like scenario. I can assure you full well that Operations works in real time along side Surveillance using psychological and behavioral science to shape behavior in real time. Better known examples of this are the BSCT Teams, or "Behavioral Science Consultation Teams", such as reported at Guantanamo.
While "Operations" is complex, I can give you a simple example, such as when I make strongly worded posts to blogs, I often immediately receive (a) phone call(s) (clearly on a speaker phone on the other end), displaying an intimidating caller ID such as, (to paraphrase): "Extrord Renditn", or "Re Ed Camp", or the like. Accusations that they are stalkers draws an enthusiastic response of, "Yes!"
What good does actual jury service play in a world like this? When all is known and clearly deviating from the government's side will result in reprisals?
If Socialism is condemned because it robs individuals of incentives towards accumulating private property, what happens to incentive where the government is stealing private information and essentially file-sharing with others, who are in a much better position to profit from it than the ones it has been surveilled from?
Labels: "black operations", anonymity, Civil liberties, constitutional crisis, Deputy DNI, Donald Kerr, privacy, psyops, U.S. Constitution, warrantless domestic wiretapping, warrantless search and seizure
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11/12/2007
