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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 11/11/2007 : 23:57:51
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YO: Just THIS in from "Oceania Free News Press'---via CNN.
Orwellingly Yurz, here.
Donald Kerr, principal deputy director of national intelligence, wants Americans to redefine privacy. (No, I think he wants government/business [= fascism] to redefine it for us.)
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguard people's private communications and financial information. (That presupposes government and/or big business aren't or won't be corrupt.)
Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Lawmakers hastily changed the 1978 law last summer to allow the government to eavesdrop inside the United States without court permission, so long as one end of the conversation was reasonably believed to be located outside the U.S. (That means now they want to listen in on calls between Topeka and Sheboygan. Gee whiz, I'm sure they aren't or haven't been. The veracity of the last sentence and $3.75 will get you a nice hot cup of Starbuck's coffee with or without caffeine.)
(We need Gershwin to rewrite his song "Liza" and call it "FISA." Maybe that's a job for Harry Shearer.) OY!
Here's all of the stoy...er...story.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/11/terrorist.surveillance.ap/index.html
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
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Edited by - Orwellingly Yurz on 11/12/2007 00:04:04
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How Private Is Private?
