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by ferdo 13y ago
When someone acting under color of law "believes" himself to be without limits, there's no difference. The brain damage is displayed by those who keep giving authoritarians the benefit of the doubt.
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by ferdo 13y ago
It's not misleading. If the CIA agent believed that he had no limits, then there were no limits.
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by ferdo 13y ago
"They "trust me". Dumb fucks." -Zuck
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by ferdo 13y ago
The chairman of that committee, Frank Church, warned about the NSA in 1975: > "That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor
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by ferdo 13y ago
> I also think that the constant claims about 'msm' 'ignoring' important stories is annoying, incorrect and in fact distracting from the proper discussion to be had. You're welcome to your opinion.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Fox News != Anyone with credibility. There are very few mainstream sources that have a shred of credibility left. I see little qualitative difference between Fox and CNN, for instance. They only differ in style and delivery but their m
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by ferdo 13y ago
> If you want opinion as news, I refer you to Fox News or Buzzfeed or Upworthy. All "news" is someone's, or a group of someones, opinion. There's no such thing as objective journalism. > chicken little reddit-level
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by ferdo 13y ago
Nothing like closing the barn door after all the horses have bolted.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Thank you. Sorry for posting bad info. It's a good reminder to doublecheck what I think I know.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> I dismissed him as just paranoid. ALWAYS listen to the crazy old guy, especially if he's been correct about past events. You don't have to believe him, but at least listen to him. regards, A Crazy Old Guy
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by ferdo 13y ago
Not surprising. DHS hired an old Stasi hand and an old KGB hand as advisors under Dubya: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Whitney0121.htm
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Why hasn’t the US government snatched Ed Snowden yet? (jonrappoport.wordpress.com)
1 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
> You either understand that good people are working in bad systems Bad systems can turn good people into bad people and they'll still believe themselves to be "good".
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by ferdo 13y ago
Exactly. Our speech is criminalized but their actions aren't. The head of the NSA can lie to Congress with impunity and nothing happens to him. Let any of us try that and see what happens.
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Ed Snowden, NSA, and Fairy Tales(youtube.com)
1 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
> is it more likely that the 4+ million security clearance holders are in on some large conspiracy to take away our freedoms, or that a disgruntled worker wanted to watch the world burn a little. In this case, I trust the disgruntled wor
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by ferdo 13y ago
> The NSA has to collect the metadata from all of our phone calls because terrorists, right? No. The NSA is keeping an eye on us. The National Security State has ossified into a cult. All non-members of the cult are viewed with suspicion
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The United States Wiretapped The Mail Of The European Parliament(falkvinge.net)
22 points by ferdo 13y ago|1 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
I'm not ashamed to say that I still play Hamurabi/Sumer after all these years...
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by ferdo 13y ago
You're correct. Thanks for catching it.
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by ferdo 13y ago
The coins appear to have moved a few times since the "seizure": https://blockchain.info/tx/ec3c6440a5302eade99c3be3dbe475243...
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Bitcoins Seized by DEA(letstalkbitcoin.com)
213 points by ferdo 13y ago|121 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
I've never owned a gmail account but have sent to plenty. Gmail is like the 21st century party landline but only a relative few people can listen in. > Because I talked to Julian Assange, all information held by Google relating to m
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by ferdo 13y ago
> How do you think the NSA taps get in place? Insert old joke from 1970's about NSAT&T here.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Booz Allen Hamilton is majority owned by private equity firm The Carlyle Group, while Booz & Company is owned and operated as a partnership. > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), focused more and more on government work. In 2008 it split off its less lucrative commercial consulting arm—under the name Booz & Co.—and became a pure government contractor, publicly traded and majority-
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by ferdo 13y ago
> The NSA is on a continual war footing. Its job is to help defend the United States from its enemies. The NSA appears to perceive the people it's tasked with the defending - American citizens - as an enemy. It's the natural re
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by ferdo 13y ago
"Next in importance to personal freedom is immunity from suspicions, and jealous observation. Men may be without restraints upon their liberty: they may pass to and fro at pleasure: but if their steps are tracked by spies and informers
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by ferdo 13y ago
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by ferdo 13y ago
Thank you for posting this, OP. I've run across references to it but never took the time to read it. This part blows my mind. The NSA has no legal oversight and it claims that the 4th Amendment doesn't apply to it: NSA does not ha

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