All of the other things you mentioned are on us here also, but we have a new thing which will probably make its way over to you (if it hasn’t already), — license plate scanners. Both mobile and stationary.

Now you can’t really go anyplace without being tracked at every turn. There aren’t any laws that I know of which govern the use of those scanners — between our cell phones with the GPS (not to mention the in-car systems), the scanners, and the NSA monitoring every damn thing possible in the entire world it’s as you said, beyond merely intrusive.

You and I both know they don’t do this to catch alleged ‘terrorists’ — they do it because they can and because they want to be able to have some sort of ‘evidence’ against everyone in case of some possible infraction.

They will use our Internet histories, places we’ve been, people we’ve talked to, etc. in order to ‘seal our fate’ if they deem it necessary. Cooked up and cherry picked to make someone appear ‘guilty’ based upon circumstantial crap.

Every time the U.S. goes to ‘war’ — they say we are fighting for our freedoms. It hasn’t been about that since World War 2. Everything since is just our butting into another nation’s business whether they like(d) it or not in order to serve some governmental chess-like postiion (see U.S. history of covert intrusions in almost every country South of our border.

My part in Vietnam was supposed to be about fighting communism — 1975 came and North Vietnamese forces took Saigon with nary a governmental care about it.

My determination after-the-fact is that most of what we did there was to use the country as a testing ground for new weaponry and hardware. Burning down villages was certainly not “winning the hearts and minds” of the people there from what I saw. Most of them wouldn’t be affected if their government was communist or democratic — all they cared about was making a living — the typical peasant in the rice paddies wouldn’t see any difference at all.

Now the world is going to hell and our governments with all their 1984-style shit simply want everyone to ‘comply’ without question.

All of this really makes me worry about the kind of world my children will be living in after I’ve gone.

Comply.

Personally we are way past the point of things being to intrusive and this yo yo can go screw himself I’m not giving him more.

Keith Bristow seems to be the ‘serious criminal and terrorist’ here.

Bristow warned it would be wrong to grant the greater powers to access email and call data without public agreement.

And the public are supposed to somehow grant you the privilege of more snooping…why?

Bristow said law enforcement organisations investigating suspected paedophiles and drug and human traffickers were now operating in a digital world.

There it is!

I was waiting for the connection to “Think of the children” and there it is! This is always the case when the governments want to impose more surveillance measures.

”Some of the cybercriminals we are dealing with, it’s not as easy as finding a door that we can kick in.”

That statement alone tells me all I need to know about him.

If he likes to ‘kick in’ doors, why doesn’t he seek employment in the area of drug enforcement? They get to ‘kick in’ lots of doors — sometimes the wrong doors.
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To Tombozi:

I will be sure and tell Andy tomorrow when he writes his story about this that you already told everyone about it. :-)
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Oh, and just what in the hell does this mean in the image below?
It wouldn’t let me post!

“You must authenticate the user or provide author_name and author_email”
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