While some of you might recognize the lyrics of Rockwell’s super hit of the 80’s and laugh, you should probably think twice about before clicking your next hyperlink. It has recently been reported that for some time now the FBI has been using fake hyperlinks to trap suspected downloaders of illegal porn. While I can appreciate the vigilance of our government and them taking the subject seriously, mass emailing it along with spamming the internet with it is a little too Big Brother for me.
First, I see this as blatant entrapment. Federal law makes it is illegal to attempt to access child pornography, whether you get your hands on it or not. While undercover sting operations are nothing new in the world of law enforcement, there is a difference between posing as a buyer of drugs and spamming the internet with “free porn” messages. For example this is akin an undercover cop posing as a hooker and offering her wares to people, then charging them solicitation for merely being curious.
All it takes is simply clicking on the link to validate a search warrant where the FBI can seize all of the following according to news.com
“The search warrants authorized FBI agents to seize and remove any “computer-related” equipment, utility bills, telephone bills, any “addressed correspondence” sent through the U.S. mail, video gear, camera equipment, checkbooks, bank statements, and credit card statements.”
Not only does the FBI not need to find any evidence you have downloaded child pornography, they don’t have to prove you were the one who accessed the link. With the availability of both public WIFI hotspots and the not so hard to access private ones anyone who catches the signal could subject the owner to a raid by federal agents. Also anyone in your household could subject the entire household to being arrested and possibly charged. Beware of what your kids or a soon to be angry family member click on. It certainly will make me think twice about letting the babysitter have net access.
How easy would it be for say a trolling religious nut job to set up actual porn sites and embed the FBI’s link into it to get you for them?
While it is all well and good to claim we are doing this in the interest of protecting kids from child porn hunting weirdos the implication go much further than kiddie porn. If they can get you for that, how soon will they get you for they start offering fake hyperlinks to online pharmacies offering medical marijuana? You wouldn’t even have to be after pot just curious enough to click. If this tactic is legal they IRS and Secret Service could run similar stings on people looking for questionable tax advice. If it is illegal the feds can use this technique and the internet to take down basically anyone they want.
Not only could they play you for the truly illegal the implications of using it under the guise of the Patriot Act is truly scary. Look up the wrong information and G Men might show up at your door and simply make you disappear as a suspected terrorist.
In the end this system is ripe for abuse and hardly flawless. It scares the hell out of me not because I am a potential target, but because so many are once again willing to charge forward with guilt by association.
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New superpowers are competing for diminishing resources as Britain becomes a bit-player. The outcome could be deadly
I have long been saying that it was water not oil that really matters in the world. If you have ever thought Tibet was about land you would be greatly mistaken, unless you were referring to the watershed from those mountains. There will come a time in the not so distant future when oil hits $200 a barrel, or maybe even $150/barrel that Americans decide they have had enough and make the hard switch to biofuels. I am not much of a conspiracy theorist, but I can put two and two together and many large corporations have been buying farm land for decades and losing money on it. They wouldn’t do that if there wasnt a future profit motive to it. That tells me others have seen a biofuel future too.
When America refuses to pay the burden of oil, it won’t take long before we are producing most of our own fuel, as we did more than a century ago. Then let us ask what happens to the rest of the world. The hardest hit will be developing countries that often rely on food subsidies from the US. We will simply say, I am sorry there is no wheat or corn for you, because we moved our surplus production that you have relied on for decades into sorghum, switchgrass, and oilseed crops. Don’t think for a moment that Americans aren’t going to feel that pinch too. Given our habits most Americans would rather have cheap fuel, then they would a sandwich especially when the cheap bread goes to five dollars a loaf.
In some respects $5/loaf will be good for the people. years ago when government statistics were put together they gave a much higher weight to food prices when they decided what poor was. For years now food has not kept up with the price of housing, which has over taken the American budget. Of course this being the American government we are talking about, they are likely to decide that after decades of study and sitting around with their heads up their asses that the cost of housing really is what we should base poverty levels on. Coincidence? I very much doubt that, this is the US government we are talking about.
I know what some of you are thinking, so what if a bunch of people in Africa starve. Well you should care, not just because they are human beings either. Africa is not only a land of tribal peoples, but of great Muslim extremism. if you think we have the Islamicists pissed at us for our involvement in those oil rich countries, think what happens when we tell the ones we have been feeding all these years to suddenly go fuck themselves. Without water and without food, they have nothing to live for except to hurt us, and hurt us they will. They flock to terror training camps with not a holy crusade, but revenge in their hearts…
Is there a solution to all of this? Not an easy one, and not one that doesn’t mean changing our habits and demanding better fuel efficiency now, rather than cheaper fuel prices later. We will never see dollar a gallon gas prices again, but I do believe it is possible to see twenty miles per dollar spent on fuel.
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Yesterday the justices heard and had many apparent opinions over what could possibly be the most important and far reaching Bill of Rights case in a very long time. The case in question is the District of Columbia’s 32 year old ban on handguns, which many critics don’t find successful and parties on both sides of the debate see as probably over reaching. According to some court watchers, “…a majority of justices appeared ready to say that Americans have a “right to keep and bear arms” that goes beyond the amendment’s reference to service in a militia.”
There are many possible interpretations to the amendment, but the one I hear the least often is probably the most important. When I drew up my conclusions on what the amendment meant back in high school government class, not even my teacher a former lawyer and damned smart legal scholar, had heard the interpretation. Most people I talked to about it, before the days of internet in every home, dismissed the idea. Never the less, I still hold firm to the belief that The Second Amendment is no less than the right of rebellion.
I came to the conclusion by examining The Bill as a single piece of work rather than ten separate amendments. When looked at as a whole, The Bill of Rights is a manifesto for the American Revolution put together after the fact.
The First Amendment gave legal legitimacy for the people to speak out by many means against the government. Without acknowledging that people had that right to freedom of express first and foremost, the leadership had no right to speak out against the English Crown, much less advocate revolution.
The Second Amendment legitimizes the revolution they declared they the right to advocate. The part of the constitution that seems to get modern scholars is what defines a militia. The second thing that gets ever constitutional scholar is must we always use the meaning of the words at the time they were written?
First, at the time of the drafting a militia was nothing more than what we think of as a private security force. It was hired and maintained by the local lairds, be they noble or simply the defacto leader(s) of the community. They however lacked official military standing, unless they were directly called into service by Military commanders, which was always an understanding between the government and the militia leaders. Evidence of this can be seen in many colonial records, where the militia was hired by the town to protect against Indians.
The answer to the second question is yes, we must always use the meaning of the words when they were drafted. Without keeping the original intent in mind, the rights our forefathers bestowed upon us are trivialized at best or meaningless at worst.
What does this mean for most of us? Nothing. Because most of us will never exercise the right to own a handgun, shotgun, or rifle, much less bow and arrow or anything else construed as arms, does not mean we should forget about the right to do so. With that in mind, if we have the right to rebel, then what defense does the government have?
The government has the right to try and put down any rebellion against it. If you have ever been part of the military or FBI phrases like “protect and defend,” “against all enemies, foreign and domestic” should ring in your ears. You have the right to rebel against the government, but you will become their enemy and they have reserved the right to put down your rebellion. If you still doubt that we have the right of rebellion and the government has the right to put it down, then ask yourself why leaders of the confederacy were not charged with treason during the civil war?
I don’t think a time will come when the average citizen ever feels the call to rise up against the government, but that in no way means I think we should be restricting our rights to form a private militia and do just that. Furthermore we don’t need to start restricting the second amendment to take care of those militias that do form every now and then, most of the time they violate so many other federal laws we just need to prosecute the laws we have to be effective.
On the other hand I am an avid reader of speculative fiction, and have no problem at all seeing any number of scenarios that cause Americans to rise up in arms against the government. One of the best books I have read of late with this scenario is America Libre by Raul Ramos y Sanchez I am planning on doing a review of the book on The Other Blog some time in the near future.
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Dick Cheney is neither stupid nor naive. I can say a lot of things about the man, but neither of those really apply. However the rhetoric he is spouting about freedom while perusing the Middle East might lead one to that conclusion.
“You and I know what it means to be free…”
That is one of the most laughable things I think I have ever heard the man say. Americans have no idea what freedom is. If you think it is having an alternative between Coke and Pepsi or McDonalds and Burger King, you would be wrong. Freedom was having the choice of dozens of smaller locally owned businesses to choose from that Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds, and Burger King forced out of business in a war of corporate consumerism. America rolled over, because giving up freedom to choose was supposed to be the cool thing to do. Too much individualism would lead us down the dark and murky path to anarchy. Bullshit! Too many choices meant we were free to choose something other than the establishment.
We keep telling the troops that we are fighting to give the Iraqi and Afghan peoples freedom, but that is the last thing we want them to have. Do you know what happens when they have true freedom? They inevitably make choices that are not in our best interests. The Palestinians had the freedom to vote and what did they do? They chose Hamas. What is needed right now in Iraq and Afghanistan is not freedom, it is security.
“We’re helping them fight back because it’s the right thing to do and because it’s important to our own long-term security,” Cheney said. “As President Bush has said, the war on terror is an ideological struggle and as long as this part of the world remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place of stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export.”
If these people wanted freedom, they would need us to fight back for them. When The World Trade Center was attack, we were told this was a financial attack on America. Oh how right they were. What has been the cost of it so far? I am not talking just about the deficit spending by the government either. How has the rise of prices and down turn in other areas affected your ability to function? How will the war affect your children’s economic well being? We were told this war would pay for itself? Will it fix the economy of the dead and dismembered?
Dick tells the troops we are doing this because it is the right thing to do. I scratch my head at this notion. These were people who didn’t yet want freedom, they weren’t willing to give up everything in the name of it. Janice Joplin got it right when she sang “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose…” When the pain of change is less than the pain of death for you and your family, then you are ready for freedom. Neither the Iraqi nor the the Afghani people were ready for that yet. What we did was give them anarchy in the name of our own national vanity.
Dick wants you to believe that their lack of freedom was a threat to our nation’s interest, he also thought that helping corporate giants squash middle class mom and pop businesses was good for your freedom. It is time to think for yourself and not be a Dick!
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Dick Cheney is neither stupid nor naive. I can say a lot of things about the man, but neither of those really apply. However the rhetoric he is spouting about freedom while perusing the Middle East might lead one to that conclusion.
“You and I know what it means to be free…”
That is one of the most laughable things I think I have ever heard the man say. Americans have no idea what freedom is. If you think it is having an alternative between Coke and Pepsi or McDonalds and Burger King, you would be wrong. Freedom was having the choice of dozens of smaller locally owned businesses to choose from that Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds, and Burger King forced out of business in a war of corporate consumerism. America rolled over, because giving up freedom to choose was supposed to be the cool thing to do. Too much individualism would lead us down the dark and murky path to anarchy. Bullshit! Too many choices meant we were free to choose something other than the establishment.
We keep telling the troops that we are fighting to give the Iraqi and Afghan peoples freedom, but that is the last thing we want them to have. Do you know what happens when they have true freedom? They inevitably make choices that are not in our best interests. The Palestinians had the freedom to vote and what did they do? They chose Hamas. What is needed right now in Iraq and Afghanistan is not freedom, it is security.
“We’re helping them fight back because it’s the right thing to do and because it’s important to our own long-term security,” Cheney said. “As President Bush has said, the war on terror is an ideological struggle and as long as this part of the world remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place of stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export.”
If these people wanted freedom, they would need us to fight back for them. When The World Trade Center was attack, we were told this was a financial attack on America. Oh how right they were. What has been the cost of it so far? I am not talking just about the deficit spending by the government either. How has the rise of prices and down turn in other areas affected your ability to function? How will the war affect your children’s economic well being? We were told this war would pay for itself? Will it fix the economy of the dead and dismembered?
Dick tells the troops we are doing this because it is the right thing to do. I scratch my head at this notion. These were people who didn’t yet want freedom, they weren’t willing to give up everything in the name of it. Janice Joplin got it right when she sang “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose…” When the pain of change is less than the pain of death for you and your family, then you are ready for freedom. Neither the Iraqi nor the the Afghani people were ready for that yet. What we did was give them anarchy in the name of our own national vanity.
Dick wants you to believe that their lack of freedom was a threat to our nation’s interest, he also thought that helping corporate giants squash middle class mom and pop businesses was good for your freedom. It is time to think for yourself and not be a Dick!
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Dick Cheney is neither stupid nor naive. I can say a lot of things about the man, but neither of those really apply. However the rhetoric he is spouting about freedom while perusing the Middle East might lead one to that conclusion.
“You and I know what it means to be free…”
That is one of the most laughable things I think I have ever heard the man say. Americans have no idea what freedom is. If you think it is having an alternative between Coke and Pepsi or McDonalds and Burger King, you would be wrong. Freedom was having the choice of dozens of smaller locally owned businesses to choose from that Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds, and Burger King forced out of business in a war of corporate consumerism. America rolled over, because giving up freedom to choose was supposed to be the cool thing to do. Too much individualism would lead us down the dark and murky path to anarchy. Bullshit! Too many choices meant we were free to choose something other than the establishment.
We keep telling the troops that we are fighting to give the Iraqi and Afghan peoples freedom, but that is the last thing we want them to have. Do you know what happens when they have true freedom? They inevitably make choices that are not in our best interests. The Palestinians had the freedom to vote and what did they do? They chose Hamas. What is needed right now in Iraq and Afghanistan is not freedom, it is security.
“We’re helping them fight back because it’s the right thing to do and because it’s important to our own long-term security,” Cheney said. “As President Bush has said, the war on terror is an ideological struggle and as long as this part of the world remains a place where freedom does not flourish, it will remain a place of stagnation, resentment and violence ready for export.”
If these people wanted freedom, they would need us to fight back for them. When The World Trade Center was attack, we were told this was a financial attack on America. Oh how right they were. What has been the cost of it so far? I am not talking just about the deficit spending by the government either. How has the rise of prices and down turn in other areas affected your ability to function? How will the war affect your children’s economic well being? We were told this war would pay for itself? Will it fix the economy of the dead and dismembered?
Dick tells the troops we are doing this because it is the right thing to do. I scratch my head at this notion. These were people who didn’t yet want freedom, they weren’t willing to give up everything in the name of it. Janice Joplin got it right when she sang “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose…” When the pain of change is less than the pain of death for you and your family, then you are ready for freedom. Neither the Iraqi nor the the Afghani people were ready for that yet. What we did was give them anarchy in the name of our own national vanity.
Dick wants you to believe that their lack of freedom was a threat to our nation’s interest, he also thought that helping corporate giants squash middle class mom and pop businesses was good for your freedom. It is time to think for yourself and not be a Dick!
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