The police administer the ad hoc death penalty to Fong Lee, planting a gun that was from the evidence room at the fourth precinct, the public pays for the felonies of the Metro gang strike force and the felons continue to oppress the people with the same behaviors, This is not a democra...
Third, US government surveillance is not just about the NSA. The Snowden documentshavegivenusextraordinarydetailsabout the NSA’s activities, but we now know that theCIA,NRO,FBI,DEA, andlocal policeall engage in ubiquitous surveillance using the same sorts of eavesdropping tools, and that theyregu...
For blogger Andrew Sullivan, who has intelligently defended the NSA’s efforts as likely necessary in the ongoing gambit to prevent terrorism on a global scale, Miranda’s detention effectively broke the camel’s back. “Britain is now a police state when it comes to journalists, just like Rus...
SOCA is part of the Joint Inter-Agency Afghanistan Task Force (JIATF), a military-police task force based at Kandahar AFB that also includes the US Drug Enforcement Agency, the US military and the British military. In a US Senate report on the nexus between drug trafficking and insurgency, ...
by now a state-in-the-state, with its own laws and leadership and no real loyalty or allegiance to what it is supposed to serve anymore. For how dangerous such things are, look for example at the Prussian military or the fusion of all German police forces under the leadership of the ...
And that doesn’t seem likely without force due to the rigged two party system that is hard, hard right (Tea Party crazy) everywhere. I’m sure the militarised police and other 1984 junkies aren’t gonna let that happen without serious bloodshed. ...
Debating the proper role and scope of the NSA is unimportant unless one has the power to change the NSA. Right now nobody has that power, not even the US Congress or the President. Emperor Alexander (what a fitting name!) is now in charge of the innermost secret police agency. He has...
In the physical world we encourage the public presence of police – under color of law – to monitor public activities and to protect us from bad actors (think of the beat policeman and his relationship with a neighborhood). Does the Internet need a similar function? I would argue yes. ...
Already been established that police forces occasionally download malware onto suspects PCs… Once you have that in place, not much of a biggie to start piping Skype call records to your own servers. Could do voice as well but would arouse suspicion… ...
Leonard: You called the police because someone hacked your World of Warcraft account? Sheldon: What choice did I have? The mighty Sheldor, level 85 blood elf, hero of the Eastern kingdoms, has been picked clean, like a carcass in the desert sun. Plus, the FBI hung up on me.” ...