According to research coming from the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of
the sources of domestic terrorism - not the arab kind - has been
alarmingly on the increase: hate extremist groups!
http://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/hate-and-extremism
BTW, I read recently that all this government
BTW, today's daily sage from the end of the world - Argentina:
Quinientos treinta y seis by eltopoerudito
No hay secretos sino malos inquisidores
There are no secrets: just lousy inquisitors.
On Apr 19, 2013 5:54 AM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
alps6...@gmail.com wrote:
According to
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130418/19421722759/former-policy-secretary-dhs-uses-boston-bombing-to-point-out-how-eff-aclu-are-wrong-about-surveillance-cispa.shtml
Former DHS Official Says Boston Bombing Proves ACLU EFF Are Wrong
About Surveillance And CISPA
from the
Shava Nerad:
I was fascinated today to see Mother Jones and many others reposting,
entirely without reflection or comment, what seemed to me to be not
crowdsourced images but second story surveillance camera shots of the FBI
suspects. (Who, in addition, are being howled after as guilty until
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote:
I find it telling that the local news papers in Seattle referred to
their photos as 'potential suspects' on the front page. The use of
language is telling - it suggests that to be suspect is to be guilty. I
wouldn't
Jacob, it's all that and worse, I'm sure. Why wouldn't be any different?
After all, there has been a terrorist attack in Boston, so one would expect
the state of the art in counter-terrorism in full force here!
On Apr 19, 2013 2:58 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote:
Shava Nerad:
I
They (FBI, DHS) did call them persons of interest - nbd, it's all the same
On Apr 19, 2013 4:27 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
alps6...@gmail.com wrote:
Jacob, it's all that and worse, I'm sure. Why wouldn't be any different?
After all, there has been a terrorist attack in Boston, so
On 4/18/13 9:52 PM, Shava Nerad wrote:
Earlier today, btw, I predicted that this is why CISPA had a chance of
passing the Senate, unless Leahy or some other eloquent champion spends
considerable political and social capital smacking it down.
This view isn't shared by many in DC... here's a
Maxim Kammerer:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote:
I find it telling that the local news papers in Seattle referred to
their photos as 'potential suspects' on the front page. The use of
language is telling - it suggests that to be suspect is to be
Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes:
Jacob, it's all that and worse, I'm sure. Why wouldn't be any different?
Why indeed?
After all, there has been a terrorist attack in Boston, so one would expect
the state of the art in counter-terrorism in full force here!
Terrorism is not an excuse for
Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes:
They (FBI, DHS) did call them persons of interest - nbd, it's all the same
To suggest it is all the same is to miss the subtle changes in language
and how the subtle changes in language change us.
We might be OK with these changes and yet it feels dishonest
I'm talking about colloquial language and the drivers behind it, which
today are predominantly the media. So my expectations are that people
will very soon assume as synonyms person of interest, suspect , and
criminal
On Apr 19, 2013 5:31 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote:
Andrés
Jake --
I think the usual language would be alleged, not potential suspects.
Wouldn't alleged bombers be even stronger though? I would think persons
of interest would be toned down, and alleged bombers would be turning it
up. What is this potential suspects? That's unusual language, and I
Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com wrote:
Skinheads wanting gun control are being blamed
I was not aware this was a group that existed.
...
It's kind of amazing just the level of rhetoric that has come out in
favor of increase surveillance (monitoring) and decreased speech freedoms
Sorry, parsing error on my part --
Skinheads wanting to disrupt a demonstration on behalf of gun control
The last mile of the marathon was devoted to the victims of the Sandy Hook
shootings.
Long week. Tired.
yrs,
SN
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Griffin Boyce
I was fascinated today to see Mother Jones and many others reposting,
entirely without reflection or comment, what seemed to me to be not
crowdsourced images but second story surveillance camera shots of the FBI
suspects. (Who, in addition, are being howled after as guilty until proven
innocent
Earlier today, btw, I predicted that this is why CISPA had a chance of
passing the Senate, unless Leahy or some other eloquent champion spends
considerable political and social capital smacking it down.
Awful timing.
The House had been planning cybersecurity week for this week for months.
I am
..on Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 05:27:35PM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote:
From: Lauren Weinstein lau...@vortex.com
And right on cue, the flush our civil liberties down the toilet boys
rear their ugly heads
We Need More Cameras, and We Need Them Now
http://j.mp/14A4fY1 (Slate)
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