Sunday, February 17, 2013

Police State

Government has long claimed that police carry firearms for defense of self and others, but that's always been a lie. A California police chief tells the truth:
"A gun is an offensive weapon used to intimidate and used to show power. Police officers do not carry a gun as a defensive weapon to defend themselves or their other [sic] officers. They carry a gun in order to do their job in a safe and effective manner, and face any oppositions [sic] that we may come upon."
I like it when our rulers tell the truth, and this wasn't an accident.

Map of locations which have asked FAA permission for drones. Sinclair Community College is on the list, which seems fishy.  Sinclair must be acting for a proxy for somebody.

Walter Williams blames crime, especially violent crime, on cultural deviancy, not guns.

Dorner claims to have suffered depression which means he may have been on psychotropic drugs. He wanted his brain studied. This is another motive for LAPD to immolate him.

UK wants to install black boxes to capture all internet traffic. Isn't that what the NSA does? 

Silent Circle's privacy and security encryption technology will anger governments. 
"But while Silent Circle’s revolutionary technology will assist many people in difficult environments, maybe even saving lives, there’s also a dark side. Law enforcement agencies will almost certainly be seriously concerned about how it could be used to aid criminals. The FBI, for instance, wants all communications providers to build in backdoors so it can secretly spy on suspects. Silent Circle is pushing hard in the exact opposite direction—it has an explicit policy that it cannot and will not comply with law enforcement eavesdropping requests. Now, having come up with a way not only to easily communicate encrypted but to send files encrypted and without a trace, the company might be setting itself up for a serious confrontation with the feds. Some governments could even try to ban the technology."
I love being able to communicate and send files with encryption. The government didn't used to be able to listen in or grab files without a warrant, and things worked much better than today. This will make it hard for them to do so.
"“We feel that every citizen has a right to communicate,” Janke says, “the right to send data without the fear of it being grabbed out of the air and used by criminals, stored by governments, and aggregated by companies that sell it.”"
Absolutely. 

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