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Renegade:
The problem with the US in particular is that these actions create anger directed at 'big government' instead of at those who are governing. The latter is a bigger problem in my opinion but it is also fixable by people voting differently, way differently...
-rgdot (November 27, 2010, 11:36 AM)
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Good point.

A friend told me that the former director of Homeland Security is now heading up the company that sells the backsplater x-ray porno machines at airports. Or something like that. Sigh... (I've not verified that, but I have no reason to disbelieve him.)

kyrathaba:
You can quote me on this: it may happen in our lifetimes, or maybe not for several more generations, but we're heading for a time when all essential liberties will be taken from us, and people will actually be killed for fighting to reclaim lost freedoms.  I would say hopefully it'll be generations away, but then that would lay it on the shoulders of our distant offspring.

40hz:
I think it's a combination of two factors:


* a large and inefficient bureaucracy casting about for additional roles to play in order to make a case for its necessity; and


* the rebirth of the old Coal & Iron Company Police that added several dark pages to U.S. history books in the previous century.
One good thing about protecting commercial interests in the name of "national security." If you can't effectively stop terrorist activities* without turning the country into a police state, at least you can protect the economic interests of those industries that contributed to the election campaigns of those who now write your paycheck.

I don't know why we should complain. We have the best 'protection' money can buy.

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*Note: I don't mean any general disrespect towards the many dedicated, and genuinely courageous people who work in law enforcement. Those on the front lines (with the possible exception of a few under-trained TSA people I've had the misfortune of dealing with) deserve our thanks for what they do.

Still, I can't help wondering why so many countries (other than the USA) manage to maintain better levels of homeland security with only a fraction of the obtrusiveness (and budget) the United States seems to feel it requires.

Just my 2¢...  ;D

wraith808:
This isn't the start... just the escalation.  And it's even worse than what was already reported:

http://torrentfreak.com/music-linking-site-raided-by-dept-of-homeland-security-ice-101125/

A good quote from that site:
Homeland Security and Immigration, eh?

I’m assuming a bunch of Latino Hip Hop artists are trying to make their way across the Mexico-US border illegally and they were using RapGodFathers as their own personal 4Chan to coordinate a terrorist attack on Arizona for their new “Pull me over ’cause I look Mexican” law.

Or, DHS and ICE are just a bunch of *******.

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And in case you think it's just the U.S. that's getting scary...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/25/nominet_crime/

UPDATE: More info on the actual sites from ICE
http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/

Bamse:
Coming to a country near you http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/211297/eu_us_and_nato_to_work_together_on_cyber_defense.html Terrorism, "Commercial side", "regular consumer" - this can used for whatever!

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