Police State

NSA still can't figure out what Snowden took. He's making them look like fools, and they probably hate that more than anything.

NSA agents spy on their wives, girlfriends and ex-girlfriends, and I'm sure women do the same, exactly as you would expect.

NSA agents willfully break the law with their spying, just as you would expect. But law itself is the problem because it allows widespread spying on Americans.

The DHS agent in charge of purchasing weapons and ammo for ICE has a website in which he calls for blacks to wage war on whites.

"But the best part here is that the DHS was apparently fully aware of the website, and Kimathi somehow got away with telling them that his black supremacist site called ‘War is on the Horizon’ was an ‘entertainment site that sells concert videos’. We’re talking about the agency that runs the TSA’s genital searches and censors the Constitution being entirely incapable of noticing that an openly aggressive black supremacist website that calls for the death of virtually all whites may not be a site that sells concert videos."

You can't make this stuff up. Obama must love this guy. And we wonder why so many blacks are teaming up and committing random attacks and murders on whites.

DHS ammo purchases reach at least 3.1 billion rounds.

"DHS officials have repeatedly denied stockpiling ammunition, but AP reports claim that the agency plans to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition over the next four or five years, and has already bought 360,000 rounds of hollow point bullets and 1.5 billion rounds in 2012."

They plan to kill every American many times over.

"Purchasing 1.6 billion rounds of ammo would also give DHS the means to fight the equivalent of a 24-year Iraq War. Members of Congress say the DHS has repeatedly refused to tell them the purpose of procuring such large amounts of ammo."

The purpose seems obvious to me. The US is way bigger than Iraq.

The same teens who give every piece of personal information they have to everybody, company and government they can, supposedly care about privacy. Talk is cheap. This report is a joke intended to mislead about the thought processes of recent government school outputs.

Common activities make everybody a terrorist to the police state.

The chances of you suffering a terrorist attack are astronomically small. Don't give in to fear.

"The chance of a terrorist striking me is less than .000,000,0001%."

If you see a suspicious package, pick it up and put in the garbage before somebody calls the bomb squad and wastes a bunch of our money.

Glenn Greenwald on the detention of his partner.

"At the time the "security official" called me, David had been detained for 3 hours. The security official told me that they had the right to detain him for up to 9 hours in order to question him, at which point they could either arrest and charge him or ask a court to extend the question time. The official - who refused to give his name but would only identify himself by his number: 203654 - said David was not allowed to have a lawyer present, nor would they allow me to talk to him.
I immediately contacted the Guardian, which sent lawyers to the airport, as well various Brazilian officials I know. Within the hour, several senior Brazilian officials were engaged and expressing indignation over what was being done. The Guardian has the full story here."

It must be nice to have a bunch of insider contacts like that. As bad as this situation was, imagine how much worse it would be for an individual who had no such contacts.

"Despite all that, five more hours went by and neither the Guardian's lawyers nor Brazilian officials, including the Ambassador to the UK in London, were able to obtain any information about David. We spent most of that time contemplating the charges he would likely face once the 9-hour period elapsed."

I guess Greenwald thought he was privileged because he had contacts. How do you think poor serfs feel when government does the same and worse to them?

"According to a document published by the UK government about Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, "fewer than 3 people in every 10,000 are examined as they pass through UK borders" (David was not entering the UK but only transiting through to Rio). Moreover, "most examinations, over 97%, last under an hour." An appendix to that document states that only .06% of all people detained are kept for more than 6 hours."

Why is it OK for those .06 percent of people to be subject to similar if not worse abuse? Quit trying to make yourself out to be some special kind of victim.

"The stated purpose of this law, as the name suggests, is to question people about terrorism. The detention power, claims the UK government, is used "to determine whether that person is or has been involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.""

And we all know that's a load of crap. You're not the first person to be pained by that load of crap.

"But they obviously had zero suspicion that David was associated with a terrorist organization or involved in any terrorist plot. Instead, they spent their time interrogating him about the NSA reporting which Laura Poitras, the Guardian and I are doing, as well the content of the electronic products he was carrying."

So why was he carrying them? That's just stupid. Haven't you heard that government goons are infiltrating every electronic device they can get their hands on. You set him up to be assaulted. I wonder if Greenwald didn't plan this whole affair because it could have been easily avoided.

"Worse, they kept David detained right up until the last minute: for the full 9 hours, something they very rarely do. Only at the last minute did they finally release him. We spent all day - as every hour passed - worried that he would be arrested and charged under a terrorism statute."

That doesn't make me feel sorry for poor, victimized Greenwald.

"This was obviously designed to send a message of intimidation to those of us working journalistically on reporting on the NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ. "

Agreed, but at the same time it seems likely Greenwald orchestrated this encounter to boost his personal interests as well.

"Before letting him go, they seized numerous possessions of his, including his laptop, his cellphone, various video game consoles, DVDs, USB sticks, and other materials. They did not say when they would return any of it, or if they would.
This is obviously a rather profound escalation of their attacks on the news-gathering process and journalism."

Only if you're living in a dream world. They've been doing this for years, and Greenwald knew it. He can't be so stupid that he was surprised by this. He set this up on purpose. He got a tremendous amount of press. It probably deflected a lot of criticism. This was a big win for Greenwald. This intimidation works in his interest and everybody's interest, but we shouldn't think of Greenwald as a victim. If his partner wasn't in on it, that's even worse.

When a man's employer calls the feds on him for searching for backpacks, you know our culture is heading toward rock bottom.