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July 10, 2008

Democrats sell out, telcos to get immunity and expanded spying

R.I.P. United States of America, July 4, 1776-July 9, 2008.

News: Wired, New York Times/AP, CNN.

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Welcome to 1984. King Duh’bya gets his darkest wish fulfilled in bringing his country- and possibly world-wide security-surveillance grid to reality. Congress has passed a “bill” (HR6304) that hands the regime expanded spying powers without the fear of legal reprisals. This railroading comes three weeks after the House sold out to the telcos. Wired’s Ryan Singel:

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives quickly passed a bill Friday that will expand the government’s ability to install blanket wiretaps inside the United States. It will also put an end to the lawsuits filed against the nation’s telecoms for helping the government spy on Americans without getting the necessary court orders.

The neo-con fist-fucking of America is now complete… and they were helped by the Democrats… INCLUDING BARACK OBAMA.
Barack Obama sells his soul.
In a preceeding post by Singel, the reason given for the democrat’s sudden cave-in was “to avoid being labeled soft on terrorism in the fall campaigns,” but one has to wonder what the real reason for the sell-out was. After all, some of these traitors are up for re-election and do need “campaign funds.” Even Barack Obama supports selling American’s privacy for “security.” Change we can believe in. Oh yeah.

Although the “bill” still passed, there was some strong resistance from those who knew better than to help build the United Police-States of AmeriKKKa: AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein said the “bill” “Creates ‘Infrastructure for a Police State.” Senators Christopher Dodd, Russ Feingold, Patrick Leahy, and Jeff Bingaman introduced ammendments that would have stripped the immunity out of the “bill,” or at least delay it until an investigation into exactly what the domestic invasion-of-privacy program was really doing.

In case you don’t believe the government-telcomm complex isn’t already too powerful, consider the following: Duh’bya was determined to get his surveillance grid set up only weeks after stealing the White House. When Quest refused, they were ostracized and vilified by the government. Then Duh’bya allowed 9/11 to happen to justify the spying. Recently, a report about the “bill” from The Seminal submitted to Digg had over 500 digs, yet was kept off the front page. TechCrunch noticed this. Telecomm money is suspected.

The timing of this bullshit bill could not be any worse as Sweden’s Parliament passes its own domestic spying bill. From Sveriges Radio International 19-Jun-2008:

The Swedish Parliament passed the controversial bill to permit the National Defense Radio Establishment to monitor all SMS, e-mail, and other data traffic crossing Swedish borders Wednesday evening with 143 in favor and 138 opposed, and 1 abstention.

Only one of the center-right coalition government MP’s voted against the plans, and another abstained. Liberal MP Camilla Lindberg said that in most issues she agreed with her party, but at some times you have to draw the line. Other potential government rebels were either not in parliament, or voted in favor of a new deal, made Wednesday, which set up even more checks and balances on the surveillance system.

But protesters claim that the deal is purely cosmetic, and nothing has really changed. Organizations such as Journalist unions, newspaper publishers associations, the Swedish bar council, Police authorities, the Swedish Security Service and above all, countless political blogs have all been negative to the new law. It will now come into effect next year.

Note: If the link does not work, click here to access the English-language site and use their search engine for “surveillance bill.”

 

Final words… that, hopefully, won’t be final words. About the only good thing that be said about this traitorous telco spying bullshit is that America will have a regime change in a few months, hopefully in Ralph Nader’s favor, and this “bill” will head straight to the shredder before it becomes an enforceable “law.”

Just in case I should suddenly fall of the face of the Earth, there’s a University of Washington report showing arrests of bloggers exposing political corruption is on the rise worldwide. Well, IF I do get arrested, at least I will have one final word about king Duh’bya’s spying shit: The Supreme Court upheld America’s right to bear arms. No ammount of legislation will EVER give NSAT&T or your dumb ass enough immunity from the politics of a bullet.

Make it PERSONAL

Click this thumbnail to see this “motivational poster.”

This post has been filed under News as Cyberpunk by Mr. Roboto.

Comments

July 10, 2008

Ryan said:

“Well, IF I do get arrested, at least I will have one final word about king Duh’bya’s spying shit: The Supreme Court upheld America’s right to bear arms. No ammount of legislation will EVER give NSAT&T or your dumb ass enough immunity from the politics of a bullet.”

So George Bush is taking away your civil liberties (with, apparently, Congressional support), adds his own picks to the Supreme Court, keeps the armed forces (enforcers?) occupied out of the country through most of his term, and inexplicably fails to take any action to deprive you of the right to arm yourself for the inevitable rebellion against that selfsame oppressive regime. Maybe he’s waiting ’til January to declare himself dictator for life in the manner of ACTUAL OPPRESSIVE REGIMES before he directs FEMA to start filling Katrina trailers with non-conformist bloggers rounded up by NSA commando teams.

Or not. Get a grip.

Anonymous said:

Don’t you mean 1776 instead of 1976? Anyway, not a bad article. I don’t know if I would completely blame this on Bush; though he does play a vital role.

By the way, I liked Obama’s motivational poster.

Eggward said:

Oh fuck!

And I, who thought I lived in a free country!
I mean, I can understand USA, with their exagarated über-propaganda and “If you’re not with us you’re against us”-kind of spirit, but I did not think they would actually pull throught with it over here. I guess my vision of a third world war being a fact 2025 might just be true.

Klaw said:

Yup, it was a solid run… all 32 years of Democracy, wasn’t it? :)

Allan Drake said:

blocking court cases that could protect our freedom? Thats asinine. What can we do about this?

Mr. Roboto said:

@Allan:

Hint: The Supreme Court ruled that Americans still have the right to bear arms, even in DC…

July 11, 2008

MrAdventure said:

Looks like America is fighting back! There is a grassroots punishment campaign coming out against those that are voting for this kind of garbage.

The internet will save us yet.

MrAdventure

Hammerjack said:

Personally, I say get off your soapbox. I agree that this ruling sucks and is in no way in the best interests of the people, but only when you add your DRASTIC sensationalism does it even come close to ‘cyberpunk’. This is the type of article and editorializing that you should add to your own personal blog; it doesn’t belong on the front page of a cyberpunk review website.

vallsack said:

i totally agree with you.

vallsack said:

*i agree with Hammerjack

July 12, 2008

Anonymous said:

it looks like few years from now, we got are cyberpunk, with all those conflicts,terrorism, paranoia society beginning to go slowly down and here appears are first “big” enemy …cyberpunk is not only hardcore scifi full with robots… (sorry for my english)

July 14, 2008

Anonymous said:

lol, take it easy anonymous.
i think reality is a bit different from science fiction.
i dont think there will be an apocalyptic cyberpunk world any time soon.

Adam Daub said:

Psh… let the man have his political stance and write whatever he feels like writing…. that didn’t seem to bother you fanboys when Phillip K. Dick and William Gibson wrote their political views into their stories.
It’s a sad day when someone exclaims something like “get off your soapbox”.
I think any and every person who owns a site on the internet that objects this insane policy should let it be known. Personal blogs are well, personal and hardly ever reach anyone other than the close friends who typically know that person’s standpoint already.

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