Will you be next?
Will I be next? Our police state is working diligently to eliminate any sort of questioning of its actions. This is a critical issue to regaining our freedom as a representative democracy (if you think we live in one now …
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Shoulda known better
Software maker faces jail because his product was illegally used
Robert Stuart legally sold gambling software to overseas online casinos but the program was used by others in N.Y.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/03/software_maker_faces_jail_because_his_product_was_illegally_used/
This is one of the ‘lesser’ impacts of our police …
Simply too big, too powerful, too important to prosecute
HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child for US two-tiered justice system
DOJ officials unblinkingly insist that the banking giant is too powerful and important to subject to the rule of law
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/12/hsbc-prosecution-fine-money-laundering
HSBC was given a …
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There just doesn’t seem to be anything worth writing about today (or the last several days, though I wasn’t browsing the news sites, just glancing through the WaPo). Same old police state, same old corrupt politicians, same old ignorant sheeple …
For the crime of being Muslim
US Muslim placed on no-fly list is unable to see his ailing mother
Despite never having been charged with any crime, an Air Force veteran is effectively exiled from his own country
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/05/muslim-no-fly-qatar
I know I talked about easing up …
A chameleon will stay a chameleon
For a reasonably balanced view on why Romney is a better choice (or perhaps a less bad choice) than Obama, I offer this interesting post from Scott Adams…
Interesting Day
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/interesting_day/
For me my ‘support’ of Obama (since I live …
That free speech will be a dollar…
Various items: free speech v ‘community’, lawlessness in Libya, sprawling surveillance state
The core western political liberty is being slowly eroded by a toxic combination of the worst human attributes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/14/free-speech-libya-drones
I talk about free speech from time to time …
This is your brain on security…
Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks with ‘James Bond Dry Erase Marker’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213849/Matthew-Jakubowski-Hacker-cracks-4-million-hotel-locks-James-Bond-Dry-Erase-Marker.html
I think people just refuse to realize how completely vulnerable they are to any number of exploits. I guess it is the same with con artists, no …
More third-world politics
Here in the ‘great’ USofA:
America’s refusal to extradite Bolivia’s ex-president to face genocide charges
Obama justice officials have all but granted asylum to Sánchez de Lozada – a puppet who payrolled key Democratic advisers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/09/america-refusal-extradite-bolivia
I really have wound …
What he said…
What are we cheering for?
Don’t let the conventions distract you from the real lesson of 2012: America is becoming increasingly undemocratic
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/06/obamas_convention_charade/
The problem is the system, the players don’t matter. As long as the system is rotten there …