How did we get here?
Mar. 16th, 2012 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
milktreeThe NSA is building a huge datacenter to sniff... well.. *all* phone/email/text traffic:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Prosecuters can whithhold expulcatory evidence contrary to law, and there's no penalty:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/systematic-concealment-of-key-evidence-in-ted-stevens-investigation-report/2012/03/15/gIQAZy83DS_blog.html
Secret court rulings that define the way a law is (mis/ab)used, but we can't know the results:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/declassify-spy-court-rulings/
Free speech can now be a felony, if it's in a place where the Secret Service is protecting someone, even if that information isn't published:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr347enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr347enr.pdf
Oh, and if you're carrying your pocket knife while you protest, it could be a 10 year prison term.
I can kind of see how we got here, but I can't see a way to get *away* from the current state.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Prosecuters can whithhold expulcatory evidence contrary to law, and there's no penalty:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/systematic-concealment-of-key-evidence-in-ted-stevens-investigation-report/2012/03/15/gIQAZy83DS_blog.html
Secret court rulings that define the way a law is (mis/ab)used, but we can't know the results:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/declassify-spy-court-rulings/
Free speech can now be a felony, if it's in a place where the Secret Service is protecting someone, even if that information isn't published:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr347enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr347enr.pdf
Oh, and if you're carrying your pocket knife while you protest, it could be a 10 year prison term.
I can kind of see how we got here, but I can't see a way to get *away* from the current state.
