ARE These? real issues -- or is it just a fishbowl?
I Mean if any of THESE presumed snoops come up and go: "nyaah-nyaah, Nyaah-NYAHH! YOU Look at Porn-O!" I mean the answer /is/ rather clear, isn't it:
"SO Do YOU, Jackoff-Lips -- now go to Hell!"
THIS Is the whole problem with the 'privacy-issue', so-called -- it is an anachronism, and it belongs to the high-modern pre-1870 nineteenth century. Now, if only Old Clinton ten years ago had just told the neurotic & wormy-looking Kenneth Starr that "...at least /I/ can get some chick to look at me, Loser! AND a place to keep MY cigars...!" this whole hypothetical load of crap about how WE are going to be somehow 'shamed' by people who are exactly /our/ moral-equals (the OTHER 'baby-boom' defectives & morally-insane bedwetters, and all the rest of the post-modern quasi-american God-damned!) would have long-since died the death!
THE Complete lack of self-possession & /no/ sense of an inner authority whatsoever among these hysterics is the real historical problem -- not the prurient & the window-peepers whom, as Jesus I think it was said in the fable, 'you shall have with you always'
It seems to me Emmett, in his concern for pornography, completely misses the point.
When elements of your government are involved in illegal activities, and you question that and call attention to it, they have government resources to track you down and shut you up.
In a world where "either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists", once you question your government enough, you're with the terrorists. The Bush Administration has already shown what it thinks of a US citizen's constitutional rights in the Jose Padilla case.
anticant is the blogname of a lifelong free speech and civil rights campaigner. A lot of his life since WW2 has been taken up with battling against cruel and over-bossy laws, censorship, censoriousness, and Nanny Knows Best types. Now elderly and in poor health, anticant hopes his memories and thoughts will be of interest to those engaged in today's struggles for freedom, democracy, and a more hopeful tomorrow.
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19 June 2007
ARE These? real issues -- or is it just a fishbowl?
I Mean if any of THESE presumed snoops come up and go: "nyaah-nyaah, Nyaah-NYAHH! YOU Look at Porn-O!" I mean the answer /is/ rather clear, isn't it:
"SO Do YOU, Jackoff-Lips -- now go to Hell!"
THIS Is the whole problem with the 'privacy-issue', so-called -- it is an anachronism, and it belongs to the high-modern pre-1870 nineteenth century. Now, if only Old Clinton ten years ago had just told the neurotic & wormy-looking Kenneth Starr that "...at least /I/ can get some chick to look at me, Loser! AND a place to keep MY cigars...!" this whole hypothetical load of crap about how WE are going to be somehow 'shamed' by people who are exactly /our/ moral-equals (the OTHER 'baby-boom' defectives & morally-insane bedwetters, and all the rest of the post-modern quasi-american God-damned!) would have long-since died the death!
THE Complete lack of self-possession & /no/ sense of an inner authority whatsoever among these hysterics is the real historical problem -- not the prurient & the window-peepers whom, as Jesus I think it was said in the fable, 'you shall have with you always'
http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html
I have used Scroogle (a Google scraper) for the past coupla years.
It is the same as Google, except :
no cookies
no search-term records
access log deleted within 48 hours
Plus, all importantly, no ads as it srapes them off the Google output.
The main Scroogle site also gives you interesting information about how Google operates as a company.
Even more frightening is the link to the Public Service search facility.
It is possible (for a small fee to get a profile using anyone's name that will show Who That Person Is Linked To.
With x degrees of separation you can see that is very easy for the Security forces to 'prove' a link to a known terrorist (whatever that may mean).
Shocking, in fact.
Interesting, although I always have my reservations as to credibility or bias in these investigations.
Thank you for sharing, Anticant.
It seems to me Emmett, in his concern for pornography, completely misses the point.
When elements of your government are involved in illegal activities, and you question that and call attention to it, they have government resources to track you down and shut you up.
In a world where "either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists", once you question your government enough, you're with the terrorists. The Bush Administration has already shown what it thinks of a US citizen's constitutional rights in the Jose Padilla case.
Good post, Anticant.
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