"I've always said from the beginning, I wanna change America"
Sorry to post & run but work calls. I'll check back during the day.
And I am pretty certain that when Palin becomes president, the rats will say she is a fascist for doing this.
What legislative Act through Congress gave them these additional powers?
We are merrily walking down the slippery slope to a Soviet style police state!
Mike
More powers to the police state.
“Some of the most notable changes apply to the lowest category of investigations, called an “assessment.” The category, created in December 2008, allows agents to look into people and organizations “proactively” and without firm evidence for suspecting criminal or terrorist activity.”
This seems more like the role that the press/media should be playing. This seems “tabloidish.”
This will probably be used in political ways more than crime fighting ways. And it will probably target extremist groups such as the Amish.
"I've always said from the beginning, I wanna change America"
Gosh, I hope the FBI won’t be profiling people. That’s racist.
What is this world coming to? You do realize, putting work above FReeping is totally unacceptable behavior!!!
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In the 1960’s they protested against “the man,” and today they are that which they claimed to have been against.
I am to the point that I feel like I can’t even breathe. They are tracking every little thing or claiming to be without out warrant or cause.
I want to say...what has happened to my country? But, our truth is ...we have let ourselves become deceived and lazy.
A few weeks ago we had a really bad storm hit our area. High winds, hail, heavy rain, and funnel clouds. Many of us retreated to the basement, but when the storm was over and we all came out of our little houses...minor damage was around. The biggest pending damage was the street had become flooded and water was backing up into some of the homes. In the background and without power...sirens of police cars and fire trucks wailed. Someone said ...”somebody should call the city to come clear the drains.”
At no point did this person take the initiative to call the city. They thought in all the ensuing emergencies around us that were higher priority...we should call the city about the storm drains.
Myself and a neighbor returned from our garden sheds with our heavy duty rakes and pitchforks. People’s homes were at risk of flooding in an area that never floods. We began clearing the drains of the debris the winds had brought down. As the water began swirling down the drains in a powerful vortex a few other neighbors joined in using their lightweight rakes to catch and toss aside the floating debris.
The point of this story...”call the city” to fix it in the middle of a crisis.
It reminded me of how dependent people have become on the government. They would depend on the government to save their own homes, indeed they were depending on someone else to even call the government...rather than pick-up the pitchfork to clean the debris out from around storm drains.
Folks, there is a lot of debris floating around us. We all know they are violating our God given Rights and some how many of us are depending on the people in government to clear the debris ...when we really need to be using our garden pitchforks.
They are flooding our freedom away. And the longer we wait around waiting for someone else to do something about it, the more damage to our “home of freedom” is done.
The FBI has no license to make such changes. If this is true, the DOJ caused it to happen.
I remember when the FBI introduce the “Carnivore” program for reading emails. If I am not mistaken, the Earthlink was the last provider to lose the right to protect their customer’s privacy.
At the time, my next door neighbor was a computer programmer/hacker for the FBI. She told me back then (more than ten years ago) that they could suck the contents of your hard drive faster than you could shut it down if anything suspicious showed up. She also told me that the government would never abuse the privilege, wink, wink, nod, nod.
Bush....er, soetoro´s fault.
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the coming political tsumami in this country will be both 1)economically populist, and 2)libertarian.
I just hope it does not break out in the form of a Ross Perot-style third candidacy next fall.
The FBI is giving new powers to its’ roughly 14,000 agents—allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use servalance teams to scrutinize the life of Sarah Palin.
fixed.