The patently illegal government surveillance has nothing to do with preventing terrorist attacks, as claimed by President Bush and echoed by both the media and Democratic Party politicians who criticize various aspects of the program. It has been implemented by a state apparatus which sees its major opposition as coming from among the American people, not scattered bands of Islamic terrorists. At a time of growing social opposition, the government is systematically collecting data to find out what people are thinking and to whom they are talking.
The phone-tracking program has, according to the USA Today report, been underway since shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The three largest telecommunications companies in the US, AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, agreed secretly to collaborate with the Bush administration and hand over to the NSA their records of every telephone call made by every one of their approximately 200 million customers. The program, carried out without court-issued warrants or Congressional oversight, is in flagrant violation of federal statutes as well as civil liberties guarantees laid down in the Bill of Rights.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/may2006/nsag-m12.shtml
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Framework For A Police State - Canada Included
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<a href="http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/120506bigbrother.htm">http://prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/120506bigbrother.htm</a><br />
Big Brother Was Listening In A Long Time Ago<br />
Does anyone remember Echelon?<br />
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Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | May 12 2006<br />
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We really do hate to keep having to repeat ourselves and with the NSA story it's a total bore. This time I am going to put it in large capital letters to try and get the point across.<br />
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THE NSA HAS BEEN RECORDING PHONE CONVERSATIONS FOR OVER A DECADE. THE PROGRAM IS CALLED ECHELON. THE USA TODAY STORY ABOUT THE NSA STORING PHONE NUMBERS IS NOT NEWS.<br />
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Why should it worry you unless you have something to hide?<br />
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These were the arguments sampled by the Associated Press, who told us once again that the nation was "split" on NSA record collecting. This is another example of 'forced balance' in journalism, to the point where it misses out the truth completely. A Computer World survey found that 71% of respondents said that government wiretaps were "never acceptable" and 76% believed that anonymity is important and that surveillance methods should not store any personal information.<p>---<br>The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein
the NAS story isn't.
Why is the RCMP bothering to warn everyone about Identity Theft, if it's
not important to keep our private transactions private?
Not sure what your point is here BC Mary.
An important aspect of "Pedophilia In Vancouver, And In Native Residential Schools." is the treatment of Jack Cram at the hands of the BC corupt court system.
What should emerge for from the combined stories of yours and mine the reader is the fact 'we ain't in Kanasas anymore'. In other words until the electorate become informed of ALL dirty actions of the state there will be more of the same.
My submission is not, as you say, the Kevin Arnett story but rather the combined aspects of Pedophilia, corrupt judges and courts, jack-boot sherrifs, and a press system in collusion with them all COMBINED with your assertions,'Framework for a police state - Canada included'.
It should be obvious they are far beyound the "framework" stages and well into the implimentations of a continent wide police state.
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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein