Police State

Because of the government failure to stop hack attacks, private companies are retaliating on their own.

Police use doppler radar to determine if people are home. That's clearly an invasion of privacy. Walls are designed to keep information from passing outside them.

Nationally, red light cameras are on the decline, but speeding cameras are on the rise.

Government failure and fraud in accusing North Korea of Sony hack. List of sources.

The feds are so incompetent on the Sony hack, everything they do is clownish.

FBI can't catch hackers, so it's going after US companies who retaliate.

FBI fails again with warning based on fake threat.

You're either a cop or little people.

Totalitarianism is rapidly approaching in the US.

"NSA spies on us illegally and in detail, recording telephone conversations, reading email, recording our financial transactions, on and on. TSA makes air travel a nightmare, forcing us to hop about barefoot and confiscating toothpaste. The police kick in our doors at night on no-knock raids and shoot our dogs. In bus stations we are subject to search without probable cause. The feds track us through our cell phones. Laws make it a crime to photograph the police, an out-and-out totalitarian step: Cockroaches do not like light. The feds give police forces across the country weaponry normal to militaries. Whatever the intention, it is the hardware of control of dissent. Think Tian An Men Square in China."
"Fools say, “If you are not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.” This might be true, or partly true, or sometimes true, or occasionally plausible, if government were benevolent. It isn’t.
The feds—whatever the intention of individuals—are setting up the machinery of a totalitarianism beyond anything yet known on the earth."

It's here.

"The crucial question: Do we have more to fear from largely imaginary terrorists, or from the FBI? Your chances of being killed by terrorists are essentially zero, even if you live in Washington or New York, and far less if you live in Memphis or Raleigh-Durham. (To express this we need the concept of negative zero, which I hearwith offer to the mathmatical community.) Your chances of living in an electronically locked-down police state are very high. This is far more dangerous to what the United States was than even a successful bombing of a mall."

No kidding.

"Those [FBI] at the policy level are another thing.  Many are intelligent, some extremely so. They understand not just the laws, but law. Many have educations of the first quality. Harvard was not always a prep school for I-banking. They are familiar with history, understand the philosophy of constitutional government, and understand the consequences of our current direction. They know what they are doing. And keep doing it."

Evil, not stupid.

"Why? Partly because they are screened to be as they are. Just as the military attracts highly aggressive men, who then want a war in which to use their training (would Tiger Woods practice his golf swing for a lifetime without wanting to be in a tournament?) politics attracts and favors the unprincipled and manipulative. It is a playground for psychopaths, for the charmingly conscienceless, for the utterly self-concerned. These now rule us."

Yep.

While the Boston Marathon bombing suspect will be unable to get a fair trial anywhere, the worst venue for him is Boston, so the judge denied a request to move the trial out of Boston.

Review of skeptical coverage on the Boston Marathon bombing narrative.

"In the course of our inquiries, we have found and documented a veritable mountain of dubious official claims, inconsistencies and outright lies—plus a concerted campaign to prejudice the public regarding the accused, prior to trial. We have also reported on a campaign of harassment against prospective witnesses whose knowledge might cast doubt on the accepted narrative. We have made no judgments or claims about guilt or innocence, but we are certain that the full story has been obscured from the very start. The big question? Why. "

I doubt we'll ever know.

In the incredibly rare case FISA rejects a warrant request, FBI just issues a national security letter instead. The process is kabuki theater.

As if police weren't militarized enough, police have received a surge in military equipment since Ferguson riots.