Our Democracy has become only a clever fiction feeding sentimental rhetorical statements. We are already a Prison World. Regarding Obama…the REAL Obama ...read this:

http://aldovidali.com/general/may-day-the-president-broke-his-compass

Our only hope to prevent an Orwellian nightmare is the total collapse of the satanic capitalist system and the creation of a participative true democracy controlled by instant popular referendums which can easily be securely created with the same technology that is now being used to control the people and enslave us.

Our Democracy has become only a clever fiction feeding sentimental rhetorical statements. We are already the’Prison World.’  Regarding Obama…the REAL Obama! ...read this:

http://aldovidali.com/general/may-day-the-president-broke-his-compass

Our only hope to prevent an Orwellian nightmare is the total collapse of the satanic capitalist system and the creation of a participative true democracy controlled by instant popular referendums which can easily be securely created with the same technology that is now being used to control the people and enslave us.

I’m with you, idarad!

since they know it all (or are listening in),

why not just speak the truth?

(and have nothing to worry about, at least nothing that really matters)

As much as I deplore the eradication of the constitution - for there is really nothing left there to argue, as it has been shred by poor interpretation in the courts, mischaracterized by the politicos, of re-written by the mindless spin-masters until it is an empty point of reference- what is difficult for me to comprehend is why do we need to have all this “cloak and dagger crap? 

I know you will think me naive, but if we lived in an open and free society, didn’t try to hide behind our own shadows, we might be able to deal with the reality of the world.  Spying, classifying everything for national security, on and on, is the same as telling a lie. Once you tell one lie, you have to tell another so you don’t get caught in the first lie, then you have to tell a couple more lies to cover for the first, and after awhile you can’t remember what or why you lied in the first place, so to cover up your stupidity, you say “well, I can’t tell you or I’d have to kill you” and soon you have foreign policy.

I know I went off tangent here,but it is mind numbing how we continue to create a world that is diametrically opposed to what we state outright, then we argue among ourselves about the symptoms while the disease is expanding.  We created a box and now we need a bigger box to protect the .........

And all I want is my constitution back, has anyone seen it lately?

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. “
Frederick Douglass

Xntrk—That is some of the problem—these “sifters” pick up so much crap, that an “attack”
could be happening outside the door and these dweebs would never notice.

Folktruther—Yes. Maybe we should try to get a US protest going and ask Iranian middle class to support us…

I have documents pertaining to allegations of illegal electronic surveillance, obstruction of justice & making false statements in writing to Congress in regards to the documented “existence” of a federal internal affairs investigation which the U.S. Marshals Service denied existed when questioned by Congress. Please review the supporting information within my website. Thank you.

http://www.daprocess.com

Start talking in code now.  It was US and European laws and law enforcement that required the telecoms to implement this technology.  Do you think that they only did that just in case some day the Iranians and the Chinese would need it?

The White Heron flies at dawn.  Repeat.  The White Heron flies at dawn. 
The widows cry outside the church.  Repeat.  The widows cry outside the church.

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The Obama administration is continuing the postmodern police state initiated by Bush, Obama being explicly in favor of spying on the American popuation to Make US Safer.  Under Obama combat brigades of the US military has been stationed as is being trained in the US. Their training manual, as Lndorff stated in a Counterpunch article, defines demonstrations as “low level terrorism.”  Obama is in favor of preventive detention, and has concealed torture practiced by the Bushites under soaring Democratic rhetoric.  Obama is in favor of the same Freedom&Democracy; at home that he is promoting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Palestine.

We rely on independent media, such as blogs, collections of articles (such as here), Glenn Greenwald’s column (http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald
and community/listener sponsored radio, such as WBAI, which is part of the Pacifica network, and where I have been a listener to DemocracyNow from day 1.

We need to know that we are being “spied” on the government.  It’s not new, (remember COINTELPRO in the
1960s and 1970s? google if not old enough to have lived through it or heard of it until later).  But the new tech makes it easier.

Independent media is threatened.  WBAI is in another Pacifica battle:there’s been another “coup” at a time when we need independent media.  There’s a GAG rule at the station: if you mention the issues, you will be fired and banned, like some activists have been.  What’s important to notice, if you don’t follow the issues, is local control and who is lining up with which side: for the dissident views -
(I support the “fired and banned”)see
http://www.wbixradio.org Don DeBar has videos of people speaking about the issues and video of the June 17 rally outside the radio station, speakers include Lynne Stewart
(see the ON-DEMAND section for list of videos)

Also, http://www.wbaix.org WBAI-in-Exile which has news by the fired/banned DonDeBar, as well as special reports
(just up, Special Report on Gaza w/DonDeBar interviewing former Rep Cynthia McKinney and Greta Berlin of Free Gaza Movement, June 24, 2009).(See the ON-DEMAND section for list of videos/sound)

If the ‘elite masters of the universe,’ get their way, the people will not have the means of communication any longer. No phone or any personal device that we know of today will exist but for the few elite that need to communicate their intentions to the enforcement arm of their regime.
You think this is far fetched?  The Constitution does not and disallows any ‘central bank’ and yet in 1913 Calvin Coolidge signed into law, the ‘Federal Reserve Act.’ Ever since then, we have had nothing but economic disarray and chaos on the orders of the other central banks and have no economic stability today. Still, Ben Bernanke, the current head of the Federal Reserve, wants more power to control the economy and the money supply, this according to an article in the NYT yesterday.
Rambling? Yes, I am, because these subjects all intertwine and are happening as we speak. This illegal and unethical government has struck at the very heart of our republic, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Soon all will be controlled and no more freedom of movement and communication will be allowed any where in the world. We are headed back to the age of feudalism and worse slavery of the masses to the overlords of the world. See for yourself and prisonplanet.tv and you too, will start to feel the outrage and disgust at those who wish to control the world at the microcosmic level.

Of course such monitoring is [should be?] illegal. It is also unethical and uncalled for. OTOH, I have assumed for the past 8 years that anything I do online, or say on the telephone is, or may be, monitored by my government. Why would any sane person think otherwise?

The question I have about the ability to monitor every citizen, or alien, as they text their way down the highway of life, is: What on earth do they do with all that BS?

Obviously our law enforcement is clueless about most criminal plots that aren’t set-up by the FBI. The trivial, silly, ignorant, and intellectual, and criminal, blather is collected, but then what? Given programs that search for key words and can, kind of, understand context, at some point, humans must get involved. I cannot imagine a more deadly job. And those who would do it must be too dull to figure out what they are reading or listening to.

The hearing in British Columbia about the fatal tasering of a Polish immigrant by the Mounties is a good example. During closing arguments, the Prosecutor coughs up an e-mail between top officials that contradicts sworn testimony by the officers involved. She had had it since early April [and the authorities had it since the get-go]. But, it was on a CD with 285 other e-mails, and she said he hadn’t gotten around to reading them - nor had her staff…

Perhaps 3000 years from now archeologists will de-cipher the reams of garbage being collected by governments today. Just imagine their response as they wade thru phone sex, porno sites, grocery lists, and the how-to lists inundating the internet. Google almost anything, and you get so many hits - most of them arcane - no one checks more then the first 10 or so.

Yes, it should be forbidden, no matter how tempting the thought is to Spooks. We cannot afford these kinds of fishing expeditions. And, it destroys what little trust we have in our government, assuming there is any left.