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by ferdo 13y ago
The message seems to be, "If you assert your rights or your innocence, we'll make life very difficult for you. Comply." Pure mobster mentality.
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The government wants media gag for Barrett Brown (salon.com)
2 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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The Government Wants the Media to Stop Covering Barrett Brown(vice.com)
2 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
What funds the NSA and the entire Military-Industrial Complex? If we changed the underlying financial structure that supports it, the upper dependencies would have to change or cease to exist also. It's taken four or five generations t
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by ferdo 13y ago
> “systems governed by bad policies and motivated by incentives will produce bad outcomes." This can be applied to the entire US government, not just the police.
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by ferdo 13y ago
http://www.projectcensored.org/12-us-joins-forces-with-al-qa...
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by ferdo 13y ago
Takeaway: > "This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ti
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by ferdo 13y ago
I love neocities. Kyle is my new favorite geek.
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by ferdo 13y ago
They can't really regulate Bitcoin but they can regulate the people that want to do biz with it in public.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> They invented a very clever peer-to-peer payment system that also happens to enable fraud, tax avoidance, drug dealing and other sordid pursuits that governments won't abide for much longer. This sounds like cash. What's the
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by ferdo 13y ago
> "We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that." It takes a large soul to admit, in public, that you've been wrong about something that
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by ferdo 13y ago
To be honest, I find it hard to take your opinion seriously after you equated your choices for lunch with the exercise of government power.
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by ferdo 13y ago
I very much doubt Paine would be in favor of what's passing for government at the moment.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> To me, it's a step below invoking the Illuminati, Ignoring or rationalizing the abuses of government while invoking the Illuminati is no way to go through life, son.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Thomas Paine was no friend to taxes: "War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of conquering at home; the object of it is an increase of rev
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by ferdo 13y ago
Then why do so many people connected to government commit crimes with impunity while those with little to no connection to government get reamed by the legal system?
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by ferdo 13y ago
That the SEC has a relatively small and new target in their sites while letting the larger and far older targets skate is all the argument I need.
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by ferdo 13y ago
No, you missed the point. The overarching power of government is the problem, not how we discuss it on the net.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Or perhaps it's indicative of the many abuses of authority that emanate from government?
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by ferdo 13y ago
Once government claims and exercises powers, be they legitimate or not, it's pretty much impossible to get government to scale back. History is a good guide as to the eventual fate of governments and nations that allow arbritary power
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by ferdo 13y ago
When government loses consent of the governed, it no longer has authority to govern. That won't stop those that believe themselves fit to rule from ruling if they have the power to do so. As I had to explain the difference between lunc
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by ferdo 13y ago
It certainly calls the intentions of the SEC into question.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> this is about punishing fraud in selling investments Were that true, the principals of Goldman Sachs would be in jail.
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by ferdo 13y ago
"There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like…But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all,
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by ferdo 13y ago
I shouldn't need to to explain this to you, but there's a vast difference between what you choose for lunch and how a government exercises arbitrary power.
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Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden and Barrett Brown: War With The Security State(whowhatwhy.com)
3 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
It strikes many, me included, as an overreach of executive power.
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by ferdo 13y ago
This isn't Congress doing the "regulating". It's the Executive Branch.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Had those currencies become significant and used in interstate commerce They were. The government's reaction to the popularity of the Bechtler coins was to open two mints in North Carolina, not to "regulate" Bechtler&#x2
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by ferdo 13y ago
The US government claiming power over the currency its banking corporation issues is one thing. I don't know why people just accept, without question, the claim that the government has regulating authority over a currency that it doesn

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