by Max Keiser
The government is taking greater control of people's lives - with 'Total Information Awareness' and unlimited access to personal information held in vast data vaults of credit card transactions, Radio Frequency I.D. (RFID) tracking, DNA database storage (and profiling), and GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) monitoring - to keep people safe from terror.
The populace is split in their acceptance of this. The minority claim that to be submerged in a digital, invasive data-prison is unconstitutional and violates privacy and civil rights. While the majority overlooks the Constitution and is concerned only for the 'greater safety.' They shrug their shoulders and say, 'I've got nothing to hide.'
Which side is right?
In order to have a proper debate, we need a political assembly. The right to assemble, a fundamental democratic right, means that no permit, license, or police supervision is needed to hold a political meeting. The framers of the Constitution knew how difficult is was to meet when organizing their insurrection so they built into the Constitution a way for future generations interested in organizing political actions to do so privately.
Problematic for the government's corporate masters is that America is a consumer society (constituting more than 70% of GDP) that depends on groups of people getting together and spending 'disposable income' (read: debt) on 'entertainment' (read: distractions). If they outlaw assemblies, they would have to close Disneyland and other places where people gather to worship consumerism.
To get around this, the government invokes the 'association with a known terrorist' law and the 'association with someone who has an association with a known terrorist' extension.
But wait, doesn't this open up the possibility that everyone could be considered a terrorist?
As we learn from this article in the Washington Post, this is in fact the case. The reality now for all is one of persistent and universal incrimination.
Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon
Big Microsoft Study Supports Small World Theory
By Peter Whoriskey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 2, 2008
The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication.
In other words, every single one of us is no more than 6 connections away from a known terrorist and by using the associate of an associate extension we quickly arrive at universal incrimination.
In case a few fall through the cracks and somehow do not link up in a way that is convenient for the gulag-industrial complex, the government can use this handy new law.
Unique law lets police seize guns before a crime is committed
BY PAUL HUGHES REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN
HARTFORD -- Using a unique state law, police in Connecticut have disarmed dozens of gun owners based on suspicions that they might harm themselves or others.
The state's gun seizure law is considered the first and only law in the country that allows the confiscation of a gun before the owner commits an act of violence. Police and state prosecutors can obtain seizure warrants based on concerns about someones intentions.
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Plus -
Here's some video that was censored from a film we made for Al Jazeera English last year - where I predict that Russia will invade Georgia.
Here's the film that got aired (minus that scene);
"Banking on It," part 1
"Banking on It," part 2