America, Free! In Your Dreams
by henry - CommonDreams Wednesday, Sep 12 2012, 11:30pm
international / prose / post

YOUR unrepresentative government is set to re-authorise warrantless wire-tapping/eavesdropping on all communications. However, you should remember that monitoring your private voice and digital communications preceded the now approved roll-out of ubiquitous (1984 style) face-recognition technology across the nation.

The BURNING question remains, why do YOU -- yes, YOU -- continue to vote for or passively support through non-action, these unrepresentative (corporate puppet) politicians?? They clearly never act in the best interests of the people, democracy or the nation as a whole.

America has CLEARLY entered a new era of corporate totalitarianism and YOU, the people, are responsible for allowing a free hand and supporting the forces that are oppressing and enslaving/destroying the nation. Do you think it's now time to cease supporting a SELF-SERVING PLUTOCRATIC MINORITY ELITE, (I really am busting to add the words, "you gutless morons" to the end of the sentence, but I have been informed that Americans have an AVERSION to Truth and Reality?)

Staff Report from CommonDreams follows:

[The only thing that really surprises me is the relatively slow implementation (by the corporate elite) of these oppressive measures. Minority elites are clearly in morbid fear of the masses and seek to contain and regulate the people at any cost to Constitutionally enshrined Liberties, Freedoms and Rights -- and you morons can't see the burning reality in your cowardly faces! It is time to CONFRONT REALITY and REMEDY the situation or continue on your slide into ABJECT SLAVERY.

A handful of global monied elites cannot hold sway over an AWARE, FREEDOM-LOVING people, or haven't you worked that out yet, you cowardly M-O-R-O-N-S? You deserve more of the same!]

House Set to Vote on Reauthorization of Warrantless Wiretapping

The Washington Post reports that "The House voted 300 to 118 to extend the law for five years. The Senate likely will not take up the bill until after the Nov. 6 election."

The House is set to vote Wednesday on the reauthorizing of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act (FAA), which allowed the government to conduct warrantless wiretapping of Americans.

The ACLU's Michelle Richardson, a FISA expert, writes that the FAA "permits the government to get year-long orders from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to conduct dragnet surveillance of Americans’ international communications—including phone calls, emails, and internet records—for the purpose of collecting foreign intelligence. The orders need not specify who is going to be spied on or even allege that the targets did anything wrong. The only guarantees that the FAA gives are that no specific American will be targeted for wiretapping and that some (classified) rules about the use of intercepted information will be followed."

"After four years, you’d hope that some basic information or parameters of such a massive spying program would be divulged to the public, or at least your rank-and-file member of Congress, but they haven't," writes Richardson.

C-SPAN is carrying live video of the debate taking place on the House floor.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/12-7