Now the Department Of Homeland Security is proposing that all airline passengers wear a bracelet. A bracelet that has a tazer like action that can immobilize the wearer. It also carries personal information on the passenger and has a GPS imbedded.No boarding pass needed while you wear it.
Yayyyyyyy! Another way to discourage people from flying while infringing on our privacy yet again. Who knows who has the technology to read the info and the ability to set the tazer off?
Total insanity for sure. People are supposed to feel more secure with these things. I would think the forced wearing of these things would make them even more paranoid. (especially if copies of Orwells 1984 was placed in the pocket on the back of the seat in front of you)
There are people I know (I was raised by a old fashioned fundamentalist preacher) that consider this the “Mark of the Beast”. There are other, thinking people, who just see it as another invasion of our private lives. I will be totally surprised if anyone sees this as just a small inconvenience. This could be the end of the airline industry. With all of the problems they already have think how it will be when no one wants to fly anymore.
The FBI is compiling the worlds largest data base with information, fingerprints and more. In another invasion of privacy of our worlds people they are taking fingerprints of “suspected terrorists” to store in their computers to keep track of potential threats to our security. They are quite surprised to find that many people they have gotten prints from in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn Of Africa have criminal records here in the U.S..
The database of prints and DNA is growing at the FBI. Their drive to know everything about everybody in our country has spread to other parts of the world. Makes you wonder how long it will be before they require a print/dna sample from everyone on earth. All in the name of national security.
In this election year I have been wondering how to cast my vote. Not totally on board with Obama I am searching for a reason to support a candidate. I found this little ad that makes me rethink everything I have said so far. Take a look and see if it can help convince you to vote Republican as well.
Orwellian 1984 has made it to China. The production of constant surveillance equipment is high. How long until “Golden Shield” technology is in place in your town? Is it already there?
This article from Naomi Klien is long but worth the read at Rolling Stone .com.
Here is another link to commentary and analisys of the impact on the United States. The Left Coaster
They have been turning out in droves. Registrars in Pennsylvania and Oregon have their hands full. The Republicans are flocking to change their party affiliation before the primaries. They don’t have anything to lose but freedom and security so they are abandoning the “Grand Ole Party”. They seem to be waking up.
Maybe it’s because of their discontent with the way the government has been going. Maybe it’s because they see the path we are going down isn’t leading anywhere good and they know their parties candidate is going to be more of the same. Maybe they just feel that Clinton or Obama could do better than John would and they want something better than he can offer. Maybe they are just acting smart for a change.
In Virginia and Missouri Obama won big because of the Repube vote. Texas and Ohio Repube’s gave the Clinton and Obama campaigns a huge boost. Those places have shown that no one is satisfied with the things going on in Washington and are seeking to change it. And change seems to be the common goal.
They have been running a lot of McCain for president ads on teevee here in New Mexico. We are supposedly a “swing state”. It seems that the pundits are right about him. He seems, through this ad, to be comparing America now with America of Viet Nam times. The ad they are running this week has a lot of footage of him after he was brought to some hospital after his captivity in that war. It almost seems like he wants pity for the prison time he served. The message I get from it is that he seeks revenge on his captors so much he can’t tell the difference between the Vietnamese and the Iraqi’s.
His call for occupation of Iraq for 50 years has been overshadowed by his carefree quip about 100.
“Make it 100.” he said when questioned about his support for an extended occupation.
“We’ve been in South Korea … we’ve been in Japan for 60 years,” he continued. “We’ve been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that’s fine with me. I hope that would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where Al Qaeda is training, recruiting and equipping and motivating people every single day.”
That is just disgusting. Americans ARE being injured, harmed or killed everyday in Iraq so there is no reasoning to this statement.
Maybe this one statement of doddering senility has gotten the Repube populace thinking. McSame is driving them away in a way Bush only dreams about. The thinking people see what disaster lies ahead with him running the great ship America. They are more interested in saving our country than some other place. They know we can’t save the world if we can’t save ourselves. They know the way things are going we are actually destroying ourselves. They want change.
In this race the Republicans can’t count on the conservative evangelical vote. This isn’t a race based on abortion or whatever one issue subject they choose to vote on. This race affects them the same way it does Democrats and “liberals”. Their kids are dying in Iraq the same way those on the left’s kids are. They are tired of being lied to by those they trusted 4 and 8 years ago. Their homes have also been foreclosed on. Their jobs have been shipped out of the country too. Their phones and internet are at risk of being invaded just like the liberals. Their rights are being trampled along with everyone else’s. Only the hardcore are waiting for Bush and McCain to speed up their “rapture” and the end of the world.
I have become an Obama supporter over the last few weeks. I think Clinton brought some good things to the table but she also brought her bucket of mud and has been slinging it much to my dismay. Bill Richardson has endorsed Barack so there is my big turning point. Richardson is the experience and knowlege Obama needs to bring on board so thats my humble endorsement.
I won’t make this page a campaign for any candidate until after the Democratic National Convention and then I will only do what I can to defeat the Republicans and their drive to bring us back to the stone age. Until then I have to depend on the conservatives who are running frantically away from their own party. For whatever reason they are running.
The members of the Grateful Dead also endorsed him by playing a benefit for him so Thats an added bonus as far as I’m concerned.
Our president “strongly disagreed” with presidential candidate Barak Obama yesterday about diplomatic meetings with Cuba and Iran.
“Just talking with them sends the wrong message, confuses U.S. allies and raises the international profile of regimes that suppress human rights”, Bush said responding to Obama’s statement he would try to negotiate with Iran if elected. More of the warmongers rhetoric to spur us into a war with the Iranian government.
Continuing he also said that negotiations with Raul Castro would just be more of the same. And we all know how well the United States policies with Cuba have worked. Almost 50 years after the sanctions went into effect Fidel finally was defeated…sorta.
Responding to Obama’s promise to start talks, and willingness to meet with, leaders from Iran, Cuba, Venezuala, Syria and North Korea, Georgie decried diplomacy by saying “… it’ll send the wrong message. It’ll send a discouraging message to those who wonder whether America will continue to work for the freedom of prisoners. It’ll give great status to those who have suppressed human rights and human dignity.”
With the United States just achieving the honored status of having the highest per capita population behind bars that is a ridiculous statement. While the Evil Bushman rallies for immunity for the telecoms domestic spying continues to grow. Using the human rights stance he continues to support taking them away from Americans while refusing to negotiate with those governments who also violate the basic rights of their citizens putting him in the same category as those he speaks against.
Invasion and stripping the rights of citizens of foreign lands is more his speed. Sending the army we have to to occupy other countries suppresses human rights much faster than diplomatic talks. Suppressing the dignity of the populace is evident here as well.
No country can hold their heads high if they neglect the fighting men and women they send into war without proper equipment. There is no dignity for a country that neglects the veterans after their return from fighting in a war. No honor in a country that spies on its citizens phone calls and e-mails. And I wonder how W can even think of talking about another nation’s status after the lies, deceit and manipulation our government used to start a war that has claimed over a million lives.
Obviously the present administrations lack of diplomacy hasn’t worked. They refuse to learn though. They keep rushing headlong into war talk while not even trying to negotiate policies that would bring better human rights and dignity to the people of other places.
I guess that they would rather kill them than try to negotiate for their rights.
We have all heard the warmongers mantra of “Freedom For Iraq” from all sides of the political spectrum. Sending our troops to foreign soil to procure this freedom is the accepted method of our government. While the war in Iraq grabs the attention of the mainstream media freedom in the United States is being ignored. Our laws have changed to make almost everything illegal. Teevee shows like Cops and that ilk soften Americans to the police state we have become. It is acceptable to citizens of our country for the police to invade homes looking for drugs or guns and the general public thinks it is alright to fill our prisons with the “undesirables”.
The United States started 2008 out with the prestigious award of having more of its population locked up than any other country in the world. At 1 out of 99.1 of our people doing time in some kind of lockup we have become the least free nation. 2,319,000 adults were in prison at the beginning of the year. That doesn’t include the juvenile jails. That number will surely grow as more domestic spying continues and more Draconian laws are passed to make even more things against the law.
Whatever happened to the land of the free?
Maybe it went away when those at home gave up being comfortable with being brave enough to stand up for our rights. CNN News Story
The State Of The Union Address sounded like the last 6. Kinda like a KC and the Sunshine Band greatest hits album. The same old shit with new names. You know, like K-Tel’s offerings in the ’70’s and ’80’s TeeVee ads. Nothing thinking people want to hear. Just sappy drivel that may sell to the mentally challenged.
While babbling the reruns he tried to sell America that the State of the Union is strong. Issues addressed were tired old things like reforming Social Security, No Child Left behind and vouchers for schools. He called them “Pell Grants For Kids” but they are still just vouchers that will divert even more money from already underfunded public schools and giving the elite an upper hand.
Surprisingly he called for more support of clean energy and reducing dependancy on oil. I think this was just pandering to the green thinking populace and he really doesn’t care. Reducing the need for oil may hurt his income so I think it was just B.S..
Reforming “entitlement spending”, or social security, seemed to me to be about reducing benefits for those who have payed into this fund for life. Doesn’t sound at all like entitlement. Just getting back what you payed in.
Doubling federal border agents on the Mexican border and more fences were his solve all for immigration. He said we should take measures to make America unappealing. I wonder if that means lowering wages here so people wouldn’t want to come here to work.
When he started calling for more defense in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan Speaker Nancy Pelosi started to read disinterestedly. Watching Cheney and nancy sitting behind Bush was more enlightening than any of the crap spewing from his mouth. She showed disdain by her reading and I thought Dick was going to have heart failure from all the standing and sitting he endured. If he would have died it would have saved him the shame of impeachment. Now to get on with that. I hope.
While sending 3200 Marines to Afghanistan he called the elections there a success. I noticed that congresspersons on both sides of the aisle applauding. It’s not their kids over there fighting so I guess they can praise this louder. The surge in Iraq is working, he said, so we are bringing 20,000 soldiers home in the next few months. He seemed proud of this like he actually was bringing our kids home. Even with 20 thousand coming back there will still be too many US troops staying.
After he renamed the Iraq conflict “Protective Overwatch Mission”, basically admitting a long occupation is planned, his threats to Iran weren’t a surprise. If we keep soldiers there it will be easier to attack Iran short range. The attacks threatened because America will defend our vital interests in the Persian Gulf.
We need to “defend America’ by monitoring the peoples communication, he said. We will be in “great danger” if congress doesn’t reapprove the spying on America crap that expires February first. Heckuva way to protect us.
He claimed a 95% increase in veteran benefits funding in the last four years. To “meet the needs of a new war” says they are planning a new conflict. Probably with Iran.
All in all it was just rehash of the crap we have heard since the Bushman took office. Old babble mixed with not so new rhetoric. alQaida on the run, Katrina hero’s from ‘05, 2005’s Iraq elections (2503 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the “freedom” came in those elections) and the rehashing of “stopping terrorist plots” in 2002/03.
Just a talking head spewing his “greatest hits”.
Hits that didn’t sell the first time.
Like KC and the Sunshine Band there was no substance.
Alien Trucker
July 14th, 2008 by Rocky 
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