Connections I've Made About Recent Policies

39  2016-03-29 by lkoz590

I posted this online earlier today explaining some of the news articles I've seen recently. I started making connections about these, and if America keeps heading in this direction the future is going to be awfully scary. I got all the source articles from here and I haven't seen anyone make these connections yet. What do you all think?

If anyone has been following my posts as of lately there's a lot of controversy going on right now. At first glance they might all seem like isolated incidents but it's starting to become clear to me there's a hidden agenda.

First I posted about NSA technology and how it will soon be used on American citizens having nothing to do with terrorism. That's exactly what Edward Snowden warned about and the government justified it by saying they would only use it to monitor terroristic threats. That all went out the window pretty quickly. But Americans have protection under the 4th amendment and law enforcement requires reasonable suspicion, warrants, etc to search people. So people let it slide, because hey, "you dont have anything to worry about if you aren't doing anything wrong" right?

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/03/10/surprise-nsa-data-will-soon-routinely-be-used-for-domestic-policing-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-terrorism/

Last night I posted an article about a movement in Congress to ban "burner phones" or, to say it with a less negative connotation, cell phones that don't have your name directly attached to them. This would literally make it impossible to communicate privately. Everything you say through any means of communication will have your name attached to it.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/burner-phones-could-be-made-illegal-under-law-that-would-require-personal-details-of-anyone-buying-a-a6955396.html

Now I'm posting this link. What this bill does is allow companies to send your information to government agencies without any sort of justification. No warrants, probable cause, suspicion, they're just free to send you in to the feds. This completely bypasses the 4th amendment!

Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/worst-anti-privacy-legislation-patriot-act/

Despite similar bills having been repeatedly shot down by Congress and American citizens, they continuously redraft the bill and attempt to pass it again. This time they hid the bill inside government spending legislation, so basically it's either passed into law or the government doesn't have a budget and we have a shutdown.

Ignorance is bliss and its easy to ignore corruption, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. America is on the brink of becoming a surveillance state. How long until the thought police are at our doors?

16 comments

11  Doohdoohdahdah 2016-03-29

I know it might be a very meagre comfort, but this phenomenon is global. The temptations of modern technological advances are far too great for sociopaths in office worldwide to resist.

It consolidates power and perpetuates unlimited corruption indefinitely, for it's geared at intimidating the innocent, righteous or concerned citizenry to not even speak up, let alone organize or actively take part in some form of popular resistance.

Data collection is the ultimate weapon to facilitate the complete enslavement of every single solitary human being on this planet.

7  Mae-Brussell-Hustler 2016-03-29

The surveillance state dates back at least to the National Security Act of 1947.

I am in agreement that you are making good connections.

Are you familiar with Mark Lombardi? If not, I think a search will be of interest.

Possible title: "Behind the curtain, Privacy Erosion remains Job 1 for the ever expanding surveillance state."

2  lkoz590 2016-03-29

No I haven't heard of him before. Looks like he was an artist, conspiracy theorist obsessed with the FBI. Anything in particular to look up about him?

2  Mae-Brussell-Hustler 2016-03-29

He was far ahead of the game with respect to making connections. Not sure where you got the FBI obsessed quip. Mark was not a conspiracy "theorist".

The feds actually sought his work post 9/11.

You may want to tone down your early assessments of deceased researchers, who brought much to the field.

2  lkoz590 2016-03-29

I got all my info just by looking at the headlines in a Google search. Didn't really go too much into it because there was soooo much, didn't know where to start

7  RedditIsPropaganda23 2016-03-29

Nazi SS would be so proud and amazed of the NSA.

1  pooptypeuptypantss 2016-03-29

Where do you think a lot of those Nazi scientists went after America came in?

Do those same scientists work for the NSA? Don't be foolish. A lot of them probably aren't even alive today. Did stuff they work on help create NSA type surveillance? I wouldn't doubt it.

5  drwooo 2016-03-29

yes, it's all a sham. and the whole western world is the same. check france and belgium after the recent "attacks" [by cia].

same laws are being passed as in the states

no discussion

doesn't matter what the public thinks or says

they do what they want

and unless we start BURNING SHIT DOWN we're not gonna stop them

2  anarchopotato 2016-03-29

Quality Post. could use a better title

6  lkoz590 2016-03-29

I agree, the title isn't exactly an eye grabber. Idk what else I would post it as though

4  shredgnar10 2016-03-29

I actually think his title is perfect and here is why. I can immediately tell that the article was written by an actual person, and the article also does not have any kind of clickbait design. With all the compromised postings on this subreddit, it is actually refreshing to know that someone like myself who sifts through all this crap, took the time to write a piece that could potentially have decent information.

3  Vitalogy0107 2016-03-29

I agree, thanks for the quality post OP.

1  democracystrikesback 2016-03-29

This would literally make it impossible to communicate privately.

ever heard of "voice recognition" ?

1  10Cb 2016-03-29

I figure this kind of surveillance is already in place.

I've often thought about how bills are written - have you ever tried to read one? Insane. That's why our representatives don't bother reading them before they vote. No wonder every President wants the line item veto. But that's a double edged sword, because who knows what the President wants to accomplish? Confusing.

I am also really disappointed in my Congressmen. I've written to them - they don't EVER vote the way I would. I vote, but they don't represent me. It gets discouraging after a while.

1  hired_killer 2016-03-29

You sir clearly don't care about safety, or CHILDREN!!!! :s Just kidding, I have been following the same stuff and the burner phone really made me mad. How long until we have color coded dots on our mail boxes? Makes me want to buy a van, pick a river and settle in.

1  lkoz590 2016-03-29

I enjoyed the FEMA reference xD