Police State

Good riddance to Janet Napolitano. May she go corrupt young minds in California instead of oppressing all of us. Of course whoever replaces her will be just as bad.

This is supposed to make us feel better:

"The Justice Department can no longer obtain a search warrant for a reporter's phone or e-mail records unless the reporter is the target of a criminal investigation, under new guidelines that will be announced by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. Friday..."

Shouldn't that be true for everybody? This is a frank admission the government is obtaining warrants for people even though those people are not suspected of criminal activity.

Gamer jailed in February on terrorism charges for making a bad joke on Facebook finally makes bail.

Despite weeks of sliming, manipulated polls against him, and claims to the contrary by the press, NSA whistleblower Snowden is still a hero to the America people.

"In spite of battalions of politicians of both parties dutifully denouncing the NSA leaker as a modern day Benedict Arnold, and weeks of media hysteria over the alleged "damage" he has done to our national security, the American people aren’t buying the Official Narrative: a recent Quinnipiac poll reports:
"American voters say 55 – 34 percent that Edward Snowden is a whistle-blower, rather than a traitor, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today. In a massive shift in attitudes, voters say 45 – 40 percent the government’s anti-terrorism efforts go too far restricting civil liberties, a reversal from a January 14, 2010, survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University when voters said 63 – 25 percent that such activities didn’t go far enough to adequately protect the country. Almost every party, gender, income, education, age and income group regards Snowden as a whistle-blower rather than a traitor."
This poll tracks several interesting trends, the most arresting of which is the utter unanimity with which the American people are rejecting the Official Narrative on Snowden – that Snowden is a traitor who committed espionage and deserves to be punished for his "crime.""

As well he should be. And the numbers expose the authoritarian nature of so-called liberals:

"The great shift in voter attitudes toward civil liberties is worth going into specifics: the partisan breakdown is particularly interesting. While 49 percent of Republicans support the NSA’s phone dragnet program, the number rises to 58 percent when we’re talking about Democrats. Opposition is centered in Independents, Republicans, and males. 56 percent of Republicans say the dragnet is too much of an intrusion into privacy, while only 40 percent of Democrats agree. "

No surprise there.