Category Archives: Soft totalitarianism

NSA Official: ‘We Are Now a Police State’

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H/T Richard

From CNS News:

Last year, high-ranking NSA official Bill Binney said, “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state.” Now, Binney says that the U.S. has already become a full-blown police state.

Binney told Washington’s Blog on Wednesday that:

“The main use of the collection from these [NSA spying] programs [is] for law enforcement. [See the 2 slides below].”
NSA slide
NSA slide
“These slides give the policy of the DOJ/FBI/DEA etc. on how to use the NSA data. In fact, they instruct that none of the NSA data is referred to in courts – cause it has been acquired without a warrant.”“So, they have to do a ‘Parallel Construction’ and not tell the courts or prosecution or defense the original data used to arrest people. This I call: a ‘planned programed perjury policy’ directed by US law enforcement.”

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The Nanny state post.

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In the Western World recently the number of nanny-state laws and rules has grown logarithmically since people discovered that if you word things in a wet blanket of either ‘human rights’ or ‘public health and safety’ you can pretty much take away everyone’s rights and/or ruin their fun with a few angry phone calls.

Check this one out from the UK. In a nativity scene, the girl playing Mary will have to wear safety equipment to ride the donkey across town. What a shame the Romans didn’t think like the that.  The Crucifixion could have been so much safer for our lord and saviour.

And now in Ottawa you can’t smoke in social housing. Given that the city is always increasing the influence of city hall in all housing, it won’t be long till they decide what sexual positions will be permitted. And now that the FBI can watch you without even turning your camera light on…

This Canadian dad made a very funny video about how to fight babies. The nanny state Granny Fascists are having a judgmental field day with it. But its just a video of a guy being very affectionate with his baby and making it look like a fight.

I had to re edit this post to add these couple of items:

1. A woman with a 10 year 0 accident record as a crossing guard and much beloved for her dancing with music as she escorts kids across the street was told to cut it out as she was a distraction and a safety hazard. Once more, 10 years, perfect record.

2. Ontario school kills child by taking away his asthma medication due to a policy that all medication must be locked up. Presents quite  problem when the child needs acute life saving treatment though. At least the parents can basque in the warm glow of knowing that someone somewhere was safe from whatever danger this medication presented to whomever may come in contact with it. Or something.

Thank you Grace for sending in all these nanny-state stories. It makes one wonder if it isn’t time to dump the whole book and start anew.

A man in the UK speaks his mind about islam. Expect some prison time.

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This story I think will be revealing of the new Kafka’esque UK than most similar stories in the past. In this video below, we do not know what his provocation was. All we know is, he had negative things to say about islam and affirmed his own Christian membership. For this, he is wanted by police, presumably for ‘racism’. What happens to him should be a klaxon to all free minded people in the UK. Is the government there your representative or your overt enemy, seeking to divide and conquer you on ideological grounds.

This bears close scrutiny.

News link to story on this here.

Police are appealing for information about a racist tirade that was unleashed on a route 104 bus between Stratford and Manor Park Station.

A man was filmed by a member of the public making a string of offensive comments about Islam.

Thank you Golem Bar for this story. Thanks to an indigenous British person, I was able to subtitle this video for clarity.

For reasons I do not understand, my editor insists on doubling the last 2 segments of this video. Once you get to the end of the first CFTCJ you can close it. I have no idea why it did it or continues to do it.

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

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By Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani, Monday, October 14, 6:53 PM E-mail the writer

The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

WAPO

Snowden gets Sam Adams prize in Moscow

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This was an odd video. The audio was super low and had a high noise floor. So it was very hard to hear. I managed to clean it up and bring it up a lot but there are some artifacts left over from that process. Also in the middle of his speech it cut to a scene where he was having dinner with a bunch of people in a fancy dining room with no audio at all. Then it cut back to him speaking. So I cut that scene out.

H/T M with thanks

From now on…

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I think no one should do a public speech, a school play, a coffee shop concert without a variation on Mick Jagger’s joke. Something like, “I want to thank you all, members of the PTA and faculty for coming to this meeting and to President Obama, we don’t know where you are but we know you are listening…”

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