Police State

Police electrocute then shoot with a bean bag a 95 year old WWII vet to death because he refused medical treatment.

"Officers reported that a knife had been pulled, but no knife was found on the scene."

Typical.

"[W]hen he was fighting the Japanese, did he ever think he would live to almost 96 only to be tased, and then shot in the guts from a beanbag round from a shotgun while he was sitting in his chair?"

Who could have imagined?

NSA internal audit admits agents broke privacy rules 2,776 times. That's just what they'll admit to. Still, this is likely to increase pressure, and that's a good thing.

All US nuclear power plants vulnerable to terrorism. More evidence the police state is not about protecting people from terrorists.

We're living in the new and improved 1984.

Google explains why there is no privacy in email.

"“Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’s assistant opens the letter, people who use Web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient’s [email provider] in the course of delivery,” the motion reads in part. “Indeed, ‘a person has no legitimate expectation of privacy in information he voluntarily turns over to third parties.’"

I've said this forever. The only way to have an expectation of privacy is if you specify it in a contract. The reason there are no privacy contracts is patents restrict competition to a few giant corporations.