Police State

NSA wants to hire an Orwellian named Civil Liberties and Privacy Officer to fool people into believing it cares about those things.

It can't be an accident that the Washington Post is calling for a phony Privacy Czar the same day. This is orchestrated.

In an article about an independent panel reviewing NSA spying, even the Washington Post puts the word independent in quotation marks.

"Stung by public unease about new details of spying by the National Security Agency, President Barack Obama selected a panel of advisers he described as independent experts to scrutinize the NSA’s surveillance programs to be sure they weren’t violating civil liberties and to restore Americans’ trust.
But with just weeks remaining before its first deadline to report back to the White House, the review panel has effectively been operating as an arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the NSA and all other U.S. spy efforts."

I'm shocked.

The navy yard shooter, suffering from schizophrenia, had called police for help and they refused to help him.

"On Aug. 7, that same Alexis had called police from a Newport, R.I., Marriott. He was hearing voices. Three people were following him, he told the cops. They were sending microwaves through walls, making his skin vibrate and preventing him from sleeping. He had already twice changed hotels to escape the men, the radiation, the voices.
Delusions, paranoid ideation, auditory (and somatic) hallucinations: the classic symptoms of schizophrenia.
So here is this panic-stricken soul, psychotic and in terrible distress. And what does modern policing do for him? The cops tell him to "stay away from the individuals that are following him." Then they leave.
But the three "individuals" were imaginary, for God's sake. This is how a civilized society deals with a man in such a state of terror?"

It's not about a civilized society. It's about individuals. Society didn't fail him. Individual police officers did. Police departments tend to attract violent individuals, not caring individuals, and their training and interactions with other police promote the violent tendencies and quash the compassionate tendencies. This illustrates once again the de-civilizing effect of government.

Response to Krauthammer regarding mental illness.

Background check on shooter missed a firearm arrest.