-Caveat Lector- ( warning! long rant... ) Now it does actually work like that as far as I can tell... The great push by those who control the government is a concerted attack on the bill of rights combined with ongoing television propaganda to manufacture the point of view they desire, which as machiavelli pointed out in "the prince" "... if you wish to deprive the people of their liberty, then create the conditions in which they demand it...". As the recent exposes come to light, we find the CIA and other organs of the state acknowledging that they ran cocaine and crack into impoverished communities... This foments the "white bread honkies" to remove all discretionary sentencing power from the judges via the "U.S. sentencing commission" which now sets rigid penalties for federal crimes, an increase in the power of the DEA which results in the complete loss of the 4th amendment against illegal search and seizure, the 5th amendment against incrimination and other losses of constitutional rights. Despite a massive decrease in criminal activity, due to the aging population, more hysteria for "get tough" laws end up with more and more totalitarian actions occurring. The recent backdoor attempt through the banks to establish a federal database on all facets of who you are goes right along with the desire to build national databases cor-relating all personal information in one accessible point. A case in point about the abuse of these databases is the FBI continuing to retain records from "instant check" firearm purchases even though the law specifically forbids them from doing so... regardless of your point of view about guns and gun control, you have a federal agency disregarding the law of the land and continuing to retain records, amassing a cross-referenced database. These records will never go away. Given the ongoing, egregious and continuing violations of the law by the FBI, it is no surprise that they sponsored the anti-terroism bill provision that gave 500 million to the telco's to implement the ability to wiretap from washington d.c. 1 out of every thousand americans simultaneously. No wonder that the FBI is the most vociferous champion of weak encryption, key escrow of your crypto, small key sizes as they claim they need it to fight "organized crime, narco terrorists and islamic fundamentalists". A quick examination of their records indicates 63% of their cases were made with confidential informants (blackmailed snitches) and on 11% as a result of "investigative techniques". Of course not one wiretap was ever denied... The recent wave of exercises against bioweps and chem weps that we see on t.v. remind me of the 50's duck and cover nuke drills. This is again manufacturing a point of view regarding installation of paranoia in the population to give up more liberty and condition people to live in a fearful, dis-empowered, apathetic manner. The truth about bioweps is, that once the soviets in the Bioprepart facility gene spliced venz. equine encephalitis with smallpox virus to produce 100% lethal brainpox ( small pox that infects the brain ), along with gene engineered Anthrax, that was the end of the story. Virus Crystals of brain pox are deliverable via ICBM with 0% degradation in a nighttime airburst at 5000 feet. Once that's out, that is the end, none of these bio-wep chemwep responses will be worth a rats ass if that happens ( Dana, who has to wear a space suit now and then can confirm this ). Of course when the russians shut it down, they seemed to have "lost" 2500 of the biowep biologists, rumored to be in Iraq, which is why the chinese are so coy with sadam, since he's supplying them with samples of soviet bio-weps (for vaccine research) in return for missiles and other support ( the yellow peril always being foremost in the russian psyche, having experienced it numerous times in their history) The internet is the greatest threat to the establishment and the only reason it is allowed to thrive is that it is the only hope for the capitalist engine to exploit instead of dying. Once the medium matures, the usual bandwidth controls and content legislation will appear and like china today, there won't be anything you can do about it. InterNic was purchased by a beltway bandit which is owned by ex cia/NSA military intelligence types now controls all domain names. Richard Allen Schaife, inheritor of the Mellon foundation money, funds almost all right wing think tanks that are the source of repressive policies. They are very smart, they knew right where to seize control. So, the war on drugs is a manufactured hoax, we always seem to get a gun nut shooting up a federal building the week before a congressional vote on gun control ( the nut is always dis-orientated and babbling, like the mk-ultra cia subjects ) the FBI was founded on fraud and continues cointelpro activities, the NSA sweeps everything ( though most of the talent is leaving to form internet startups, they're having a hard time keeping people )... The FBI wants everyone fingerprinted, databased, logged and monitored, and FDIC wants to blueprint your financial and personal data in case your a drug smuggler( Not that I ever noticed any of the dealers I knew taking checks!), The DEA thugs are enjoying their jackboot on the neck of the public ( purchase your next airline ticket with cash and watch what happens...) and the local cops all want to wear ninja suits and carry silenced hk mp5's, meanwhile no one stops to ask the elected leaders "what policies are we pursuing that has radical terrorists wanting to nuke/bioswat/chemspray americans???" that question just don't get asked... So, what can you do??? Get educated and look at the multifaceted attack against the divine principal of freedom. Spread the word to others to empower them to shine the public light on this, spread consciousness to fight the hypnotic entrainment of the power structure message, Support EPIC and EFF fighting for your cyber-rights...look at who's agenda is being served by the next piece of social or law and order or protection legislation... The minimum price for your freedom is your responsibility to be conscious of what is going on... I fear we have the frog in the pot of boiling water syndrome, slow heating and the frogs will just stay there till they die... 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