The End of Free Speech

[SKYGZR]

Call 1.202.225.3121 and ask to be routed to the Judiciary Members listed in the attached file. If you have a Fax, USE IT NOW...DO THIS NOW..otherwise websites like this may be DOOMED!!

http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/h...nsfuneral.html

http://www.truthtellers.org/index.html

[rushpat]

sounds bad

[BOBT12]

It looks like this federal government "help you to death" crap is moving at a breakneck pace.

[BOBT12]

I felt that this was a pretty good article regarding the New World Order.

Internet Thought Police

Transport George Orwell's novel 1984- in which a totalitarian Big Brother government tries to rule citizens' lives and control their thoughts - into the 21st century, and it would look a lot like China today.

Consider what happened this week. Continuing a long battle to curb what it considers a subversive information source - the Internet - China tightened its censorship of online news services and bulletin boards.


Major search engines and portals have been ordered to stop posting unauthorized commentary. Only opinion pieces from government-controlled sources are allowed. Private individuals and groups must register as "news organizations" before operating e-mail distribution lists. Anyone who violates the rules faces prison. Already, China has jailed a journalist for sending text of a Communist Party memo to foreign websites.


Distressingly, Western companies, notably Yahoo, have cooperated with the authorities as a price of being allowed to do business in China. In doing so, they become partners of the totalitarian state. The specter arises that the Internet, usually assumed to be a catalyst for free speech and democracy, is becoming a tool for repression. If China is successful, other regimes no doubt would follow.

Emphasis added.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20050928/...nA2BHNlYwM3NDI-

[weishaupt1776]

All the more reason to settle your status as a dejure national of your state now in an administrative fashion so that when this happens, you at least have something to enter into evidence

Not a silver bullet, but definitely a good weapon

[BOBT12]

Where have all of the records gone?

National Archives Pact Let C.I.A. Withdraw Public Documents

WASHINGTON, April 17 — The National Archives signed a secret agreement in 2001 with the Central Intelligence Agency permitting the spy agency to withdraw from public access records it considered to have been improperly declassified, the head of the archives, Allen Weinstein, disclosed on Monday.

Week in Review: Why the Secrecy? Only the Bureaucrats Know (April 16, 2006)
Archivist Urges U.S. to Reopen Classified Files (March 3, 2006)
U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review (February 21, 2006)

Threats & Responses
Go to Complete Coverage » Mr. Weinstein, who began work as archivist of the United States last year, said he learned of the agreement with the C.I.A. on Thursday and was putting a stop to such secret reclassification arrangements, which he described as incompatible with the mission of the archives.

Like a similar 2002 agreement with the Air Force that was made public last week, the C.I.A. arrangement required that archives employees not reveal to researchers why documents they requested were being withheld.

The disclosure of the secret agreements provides at least a partial explanation for the removal since 1999 of more than 55,000 pages of historical documents from access to researchers at the archives. The removal of documents, including many dating to the 1950's, was discovered by a group of historians this year and reported by The New York Times in February.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/wa...erland&emc=rss

[BOBT12]

It looks like it is time for all out internet surveillance.

Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping

From the Administration and Congress that has brought you Guantanamo and warrentless wiretaps now comes mandatory ISP data retention. A new law is being proposed that would compel Internet Service Providers to maintain a year’s worth of internet traffic – every email, blog post, and web site visit – for every one of their customers. These records could be accessed by authorities without notifying the subject of the search.

[Posted By nullbull]

By By Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Republished from CNET news

ISPs may be compelled to keep a year's worth of your internet surfing

It didn’t take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users’ activities to gain traction in the U.S. Congress.

Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a Republican, gave a speech saying that data retention by Internet service providers is an “issue that must be addressed.” Child *****graphy investigations have been “hampered” because data may be routinely deleted, Gonzales warned.

Now, in a demonstration of bipartisan unity, a Democratic member of the Congressional Internet Caucus is preparing to introduce an amendment-<>perhaps during a U.S. House of Representatives floor vote next week-that would make such data deletion illegal.

Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette’s proposal (click for PDF) says that any Internet service that “enables users to access content” must permanently retain records that would permit police to identify each user. The records could not be discarded until at least one year after the user’s account was closed.

It’s not clear whether that requirement would be limited only to e-mail providers and Internet providers such as DSL (digital subscriber line) or cable modem services. An expansive reading of DeGette’s measure would require every Web site to retain those records. (Details would be left to the Federal Communications Commission.)

“We’re still addressing some of the issues, and we will have those issues or answers before we introduce this as either an amendment or a standalone bill,” Brandon MacGillis, a spokesman for DeGette, said in an interview on Friday.

CNET News.com was the first to report last June that the Justice Department was quietly shopping around the idea of legally required data retention. In a move that may have led to broader interest inside the United States, the European Parliament last December approved such a requirement for Internet, telephone and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers.

U.S. politicians began talking publicly about mandatory data retention during a series of House of Representatives hearings on child *****graphy and in speeches, News.com reported earlier this month. Legislation similar to DeGette’s has been circulating in the Colorado legislature, and another hearing on child exploitation is planned for next Wednesday.

The Bush administration’s current position is an abrupt reversal of its previous long-held belief that data retention is unnecessary and imposes an unacceptable burden on Internet providers. In 2001, the Bush administration expressed (click for PDF) “serious reservations about broad mandatory data retention regimes.”

[...]Child porn as surveillance excuse?

Critics of DeGette’s proposal have said that, while the justification for Internet surveillance might be protecting children, the data would be accessible to any local or state law enforcement official investigating anything from drug possession to tax evasion. In addition, the one-year retention is a minimum; the FCC would receive the authority to require Internet companies to keep records “for not less than one year after a subscriber ceases to subscribe to such services.”

Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the free-market Cato Institute, said: “This is an unrestricted grant of authority to the FCC to require surveillance.”

“The FCC would be able to tell Internet service providers to monitor our e-mails, monitor our Web surfing, monitor what we post on blogs or chat rooms, and everything else under the sun,” said Harper, a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee. “We’re seeing a kind of hysteria reminiscent of the McMartin case. The result will be privacy that goes away and doesn’t come back when the foolishness is exposed.”

Emphasis added.

http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/8879/Con...y_ISP_snooping

More government help?

[FreeFromContract]

Originally Posted by BOBT12

It looks like it is time for all out internet surveillance.

Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping

Emphasis added.

http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/8879/Con...y_ISP_snooping

More government help?

Is now the appropriate time to start making the comparisons between the cold war era USSR government and this United States government?

[Livefire]

The churches of this land outta wake up and break off the shackles of 501 (c) 3 tax exempt status while they still can!!!

[mrg]

Originally Posted by FreeFromContract

Is now the appropriate time to start making the comparisons between the cold war era USSR government and this United States government?

It has already been done, not enough people want to look at the pictures, or hear about it.

By now it is sort of like closing the barn door after the cows have all got out.

Now might be an appropriate time to be making some serious comparisons between the Nazi era Germany socio/economic environment and the present American one.

Both Nazis and Bolsheviks were so******ts, Soviet style Bolshevik collectivist so******m survived in the Union of Soviet So******tic Republics.

Fascist corporate National So******m survives in the United States "democracy."