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FBI Agents Encouraged to Search Your Trash, Public Databases Just to Sniff Around For Crime

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What the hell happened to America after 9/11? Have we lost sight of our founding principles?

The FBI plans to issue new rules for its agents saying, essentially, that they can and should dig through our trash and search databases (Facebook, Twitter?) if people who aren't suspects but who are simply being assessed or looked at.

Scary? The news comes after ...


... a scathing report in the New Yorker about the government's failed case against U.S. intelligence worker and whistleblower Thomas Drake, in which former National Security Agency mathematician Bill Binney claims, according to the story ...

... that the agency now stores copies of all e-mails transmitted in America, in case the government wants to retrieve the details later. In the past few years, the N.S.A. has built enormous electronic-storage facilities in Texas and Utah. Binney says that an N.S.A. e-mail database can be searched with "dictionary selection," in the manner of Google.

The feds are in your trash, your email, and phone conversations, apparently.

The new FBI trash-digging policy will be a part of the agency's updated Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, a source tells the New York Times.

The changes apply not to criminal investigations but, apparently, to agents' ability simply to sniff around "proactively," according to the Times.

The paper states that some agents wanted the trash-sifting powers so they could use evidence found among refuse to pressure people to snitch on others.

(Great. So you might not even be the target of a federal probe or even suspected of a federal crime, but agents will use your discarded mattress tag to get you to flip on your neighborhood pot dealer).

The ACLU isn't happy, with Michael German, a former FBI agent turned ACLU lawyer, telling the paper:

Claiming additional authorities to investigate people only further raises the potential for abuse.

So watch your trash, people. Or ... put some real vile stuff in there. Like Anthony Weiner photos.

[@dennisjromero/djromero@laweekly.com]


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Are we Human?
Are we Human?

Their goal is to slowly take away our freedoms so that we do not notice.  They try to make us feel that we are different from each other (black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Mexican, rich, poor, smart, elite, educated, middle-class, Jewish, catholic, young, old, etc.) but we are still all human.  We are basically all the same.  We forget this easily, and they know that.  They are very smart, but they know that you hold all the power in the world if you choose to use it.   That is why they don't want you to know that you are just like your neighbor.  You breathe the same air, drink the same water and have been formed from the same minerals that were created over billions of years throughout our universe.  They want to makes us feel separate so they can take away rights from some people while the majority either don't care, don't know or are all for it because from the start, these people are perceived as different.  Therefore, once you become among the targeted demographic, no one will be there to fight for your rights.  Your rights will be stripped away just as those before you were, the other humans that you did not stand up for when their rights were being trampled on.  And as your rights are being yanked away in plain sight, others will look on and say “well…the law is the law,” “if they don’t like it they should leave,” “it is for freedom… and freedom isn’t free,” “if you aren’t doing anything wrong, then you don’t have anything to worry about,” the possibilities are endless. Did the German citizens want to murder Jewish people in concentration camps? Most likely not.  However, the rights of the Jewish people were slowly eroded to the point where the common German citizen had no problem with limiting their rights and ultimately murdering them.  Do you think that the German citizens would have stood up for the Jewish people if on day one of Hitler being in power he laid out his plans for the persecution of the Jewish people and his plans for world dominance?  Yes!  They would have stopped that shi t right then.   Hitler was smart, and he surrounded himself with the smartest scientists, politicians, generals and propagandists (the media).  Slowly but surely the population was shouting his mantra and falling into line.  In hindsight, if the German people had stood up and said no, the actions would have stopped.  Alas, they did not. Our government has learned much from that era.  Why leave the advancements that Hitler had made in technology, warfare, physiological/mind control, propaganda, etc. to be wasted, or worse, used by the Russians?  These tools have been used to create a new quest for supremacy. Guess what?  You have all opted in.  They know how you think.  They know what to show you to make you hungry.  They know what to show you to make you thirsty.  They know what to show you to make you horny.  They know what to show you to make you mad.  They know what to show you to make you sad, depressed and to want all kinds of things that you don’t need.  They know how you will vote.  They know how you will act if they take away your rights and they use this to take away as much as they can without you going ape sh it.  And now you know. So, do not buy their “food,” drinks, useless crap, propaganda (main-stream media, cable TV, newspapers, magazines), don’t use their banks (use local credit unions or banks if possible) and demand transparency and accountability.  You do not need to do everything at once, but you can start with the things that are easier and see how far you can take it.  Anyone who claims that the man or the system holds them down, but doesn’t do any of these things clearly does not know what they are talking about. Do not fear, for you are the government.  The people have the power.  Tell your family, your neighbor, your colleagues and everyone you meet that we are all in this together and it is only us that can determine our future.  Take a step out of the box and picture the world in 100 years.  What would you want it to look like?  What would you want people to be doing?  How are your actions helping/hindering the possibility of that?

Bitchhomofo
Bitchhomofo

i'm sure this is exactly how they want me to think, but i've pretty much lost hope of things getting better for the common man. the rich are insatiably power-hungry, and the average person is dumber than dic k and getting dumber.  it's a hopeless situation.think about this, if the majority will believe without question when the government tells them three steel frame buildings imploded into their own footprints at freefall speed in perfect symmetry due to fire damage, when that's never happened before in history, ever, or that a bullet coming from the rear can make a head fly back and the brain/skull blow out toward the shot, well, you see the kind of mess we're in.  my theory is that civilization began when the first greedy, immoral caveman paid the first big dumb caveman a banana to protect his hoarded stash of mammoth meat.  this arrangement afforded them both an advantage over the other cavemen, and they bred prodigiously until there were nations of idiots ruled by an immoral elite. civilization has always been about the greedy and their hired thugs forcing the meek into slavery. maybe it's better now that we get to choose our own slavemasters, but make no mistake we are still slaves.  this world makes me sad. very, very sad.

Lightnapper
Lightnapper

Remember this simple adage-- one man's trash is another man's treasure. The "Powers That Be" have been trash picking for years. Once the trash receptacle is placed upon the street, it is free game. Likewise, even if the trash container is located upon your personal, private property, unless you have a fenced yard, a locked gate, and "NO TRESPASSING" signage, the authorities can still dumpster dive without probable cause or a search warrant. Shred or dread. And think of the implications of your "Rewards" cards, library cards, and magazine subscriptions."

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