Top U.S. Politicians Call for British-Style Surveillance State
July 2nd, 2007Via: New York Daily News:
The attempted terror attacks in Britain prove the U.S. needs its domestic spying program and more surveillance cameras in American cities, two powerful lawmakers said yesterday.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman called for an end to the “petty, partisan fighting” over the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping and e-mail spying efforts.
“I hope this week, based on what happened in the United Kingdom, President Bush [and] the bipartisan leadership of Congress will sit down and say, ‘Hey, let’s cut out the nonsense,'” Lieberman (I-Conn.) said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“We’re fiddling while our enemies are getting ready to attack us,” he said. “Let’s figure out how to pass a law to modernize this electronic surveillance capacity, which is critical.”
Related: United States Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner: Secret Trials for Terrorists
Wow. I *JUST* explained to my wife yesterday afternoon how these “terrorist attacks” (i.e., false-flag ops) would be used to sell the need for UK-style big-brothery here. She’s going to think I’m really smart now… Of course it really doesn’t take a genius to predict this kind of ass-hattery anymore does it?
Tip to TPTB: If you’re going to set up “coordinated terrorist attacks” don’t “find” all the really nasty bombs and then “miss” the one lame flaming-truck-into-the-airport bit which kills almost nobody. It’s a little too transparent. Gotta break a few eggs to make an omelette.
Then again, whom am I kidding? As a whole we’re falling all over ourselves to give it up like a drunk prom date anyway.
So, how about that Paris Hilton chick, huh? Sheesh…
‘Hey, let’s cut out the nonsense,’†Lieberman (I-Conn.) said on ABC’s “This Week.â€
Oh, ok. I swear he looks like one of those ventriloquist puppets from back when I was a kid. Hey…What’s the “I” stand for again?
One day these security measures are going to fall in their neck, like a cold shower, and they will understand how difficult it really is to live in this world of ours, with all those layers of security around us. Who would want to live in prison for all their life?
Hello. Well, I’m real sick of this crap. I would like to move to some island where there is none of this crappy terrorist shit going on. I live in England right now, and its just a dump. There has to be some country out there that is just small and minds its own business. Any suggestions?
It’s so obvious that the UK has been the agreed testbed region for all the Orwellianism soon to be exported throughout the EU and N America. Even if the powers that be came out and openly admitted that they are megalomaniacal mass murderers intent on enslaving us all, the zombies would be too preoccupied with the Paris Hilton saga (for example) to notice.
That’s hilarious! The West wages all-out economic warfare against the Middle East for a century at least, and Joe Lieberman wets his pants about a few penny-ante desperadoes blowing up a few bombs in retaliation.
“So, how about that Paris Hilton chick, huh? Sheesh…”
She’s seen the Light apparently, and that can only be a Good Thing made Beta, if she knows what to do with IT.
Who Mentors and Monitors her Feeds and her Needs. Do such Mums and Dads OutSource for Such Sensitive Intelligence Services?
How very …… Pioneering.
And such Services would have an Autonomous Global Application.
Joe Lieberman, pardon my intemperance, but how I loathe that little prune faced prick; if he isn’t a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and/or The Tilateral Commission-does it still exist- and/or ghastly Bilderberger Group, it will be a miracle. Now excuse me while I do some reseach on this sorry excuse for a U.S. Senator.
Yeah more cameras, that’ll stop crime? I said it before, A camera Never Stopped a crime, it only took pictures of it. In the US they have many cameras. They are a ‘little’ more discrete about it unlike the shoe box size you mainly see when they speak about them.
1. The British live under extensive electronic survellience.
2. British intelligence services had no warning of the planned attack.
3. Rep. Peter King says: “It went under the radar … which to me shows the main way of stopping terrorism … is to have electronic surveillance”
If electronic surveillance doesn’t catch terrorist plots, we need electronic surveillance. If it does, we need electronic surveillance.
WTF?
‘Lieberman (I-Conn.) Hey…What’s the “I†stand for again?’
@ Glenda: I = Israeli
Or Incompetent Ignoramus.
‘They hate us for our freedoms’, so let’s just take a few more away to thwart them, eh?
The terrorists won as soon as we started caving in and changing the way we live. America’s founding fathers should rise, zombielike from their graves, and maul traitor Joe Lieberman. On live television.
“Those who would give up essential liberty in exchange for the promise of temporary security deserve neither.” – Benjamin Franklin.
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.” – James Madison
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson
Here’s your killer robot:
http://www.veryshortlist.com/video/?email_key=d17eaee4-f179-4b16-a427-e9ae689d54f2
One flaming jeep and a nation goes catatonic. Considering the Orwellian camera-orgy in old Blighty you’d have thought that nation could nab anyone at any time for any reason. Seems that the harder the iron fist clenches the more ways people find to get around it and the more enraged the power elite become… ergo… more laws and ever more draconian diktats rammed down the publics throat. Of course its all for “your security”. LOL!
And Peter King is that bombastic ass-hat who went into a tizzie and said that anyone exposing the governments dirty laundry should be labeled a traitor. Good one, Peter!
@Ozzy “The Man” Diaz
When that came out a couple of years ago, lots of people thought it was real.
Something like that is almost certainly technologically feasible, but practical, that’s anybody’s guess.
Their nightmare scenario would be the deployment of killer robots, only to have them hacked, and then turned in reverse.
Human agents are harder to hack . . . maybe.
Why build a humanoid robot when the Bible Belt produces the flesh and blood variety? Once you convince people that they get the 72 virgins, or the “reward” if they follow your orders faithfully, you essentially have the dreaded killer robots.
That trailer would be more accurate if it showed a bunch of script kiddies wirelessly tapping into the OS, and then having it run amuck.
I guess I’m something of a techno-skeptic. What I find more frightening than killer robots is humans who think like killer robots because they’ve been trained to and they’ve forgotten how to do little else.
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