So, many of you think today is Veterans Day in the U.S. of A., clued in by the sniveling brats out of school on a day-pass. Enjoy it, kids. You might be looking at a draft in a couple of years. [And p.s., Veterans Day was yesterday and does not have any sort of apostrophe in its name.]
We’ve been in ‘Nam for five years now. Did I say ‘Nam? I meant Iran. Oops, Iraq. We’ve been in Iraq. We’re going to Iran, so might as well start the boot polishing now. While the Commander in Grief was grandstanding in his home state (and by that, I mean avoiding any responsibility by hiding as far away from Washington as possible; and how many friggin’ 3 day weekends does that make for him down at the Ranch?), your last illusion of privacy was being destroyed.
My old pal Don Kerr, principal deputy director of national intelligence (#2 spook) and fellow old fart, made a little slip of the tongue and let loose with this gem:
“Protecting anonymity isn’t a fight that can be won. Anyone that’s typed in their name on Google understands that. Instead, privacy, I would offer, is a system of laws, rules, and customs with an infrastructure of Inspectors General, oversight committees, and privacy boards on which our intelligence community commitment is based and measured. And it is that framework that we need to grow and nourish and adjust as our cultures change.
I think people here, at least people close to my age, recognize that those two generations younger than we are have a very different idea of what is essential privacy, what they would wish to protect about their lives and affairs. And so, it’s not for us to inflict one size fits all. It’s a need to have it be adjustable to the needs of local societies as they evolve in our country. Eventually, we can only hope that people’s perceptions – in Hollywood and elsewhere – will catch up.
Our job now is to engage in a productive debate, which focuses on privacy as a component of appropriate levels of security and public safety. This is work that the Office of the DNI has started to do, and must continue and make a high priority. This careful balance we need to strike, however, is nothing new. With the advent of telephones, we entered a new frontier that required careful balancing between safety and privacy. We faced this challenge again at the end of the ’70s in the aftermath of the Church-Pike Hearings. And now, in the era of new technologies, we have to work to continue to keep that balance, to earn that trust, and re-earn it every day through our actions. But we also have to be willing to reopen the laws and regulations that were based on technologies that existed 1978 and adjust them to the realities of 2007 and 2008.”
So, kids, you’re on the Google and the Facebook? Get ready to be in the Sunni Triangle instead. You’ve already surrendered your privacy and anonymity by using the Internets, so why not roll over and play dead (or be dead)? Can’t remember 1978? Don’s talking about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that was raped last summer to allow spying on Americans without a court order.
All of this is funny as hell coming from Donnie. Before his current gig, he headed up Los Alamos and launched satellites for recon. His birds make Google Earth look like a retard drawing a treasure map. But now he can’t figure out a way to tap a wire without depantsing the American public.
Why raise the alarm? Once they find you, they own you. And owning you means that they can outsource your torture, keep you in a containment facility and float you in shit without an attorney forever and ever Amen.
Little side note. I once knew a hot German blonde who wouldn’t use an ATM. I thought she was batshit, but she had her reasons. Only paid cash. Ever. You can’t Google her even now. She doesn’t exist, at least for them. Doesn’t seem so crazy anymore. And before you give me that goddamn DMV argument about Donnie, let me lay this on you. If this guy can analyze the crapton of data coming out of the sky every day, what makes you think sifting through your ISP records is so impossible? Not everyone in the .gov is a fat fuck making $9/hr.
Again, the Donald:
I was taken by a thing that happened to me at the FBI, where I also had electronic surveillance as part of my responsibility. And people were very concerned that the ability to intercept emails was coming into play. And they were saying, well, we just can’t have federal employees able to touch our message traffic. And the fact that, for that federal employee, it was a felony to misuse the data – it was punishable by five years in jail and a $100,000 fine, which I don’t believe has ever happened – but they were perfectly willing for a green-card holder at an ISP who may or may have not have been an illegal entrant to the United States to handle their data. It struck me as an anomalous situation.
Get the point? The illegals at your ISP handle your precious “privacy” and “anonymity” all the time. You let a dirty foreigner put his hands on you like that? You should be so lucky that we’d have anything to do with your disgusting, despicable “data” now, you slut. Now tell the lawn boy the backyard needs a trim. I’m not paying Al Kayda or Al Niño or whatever his name is to sit on his ass.
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