Police State

Court documents scratch the surface, showing how former FBI director Freeh corrupted his investigation of Penn State, just as I predicted.

ISP's stripping encryption direction from email.

Number of police killings highest in two decades.

"The number of felony suspects fatally shot by police last year — 461— was the most in two decades, according to a new FBI report."

Yet crime is going down.

Auto-makers pretend they care about privacy.

"Nineteen automakers accounting for most of the passenger cars and trucks sold in the U.S. have signed onto a set of principles they say will protect motorists' privacy in an era when computerized cars pass along more information about their drivers than many motorists realize."

That sounds like collusion.

"The principles were delivered in a letter Wednesday to the Federal Trade Commission, which has the authority to force corporations to live up to their promises to consumers. Industry officials say they want to assure their customers that the information that their cars stream back to automakers or that is downloaded from the vehicle's computers won't be handed over to authorities without a court order, sold to insurance companies or used to bombard them with ads for pizza parlors, gas stations or other businesses they drive past, without their permission."

Baloney. So the FTC promotes this kind of collusion, but not others.