tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088893.post114737830407289348..comments2023-10-18T07:02:57.612-04:00Comments on The Barking Dingo: Big BrotherDingohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04386587646469853172noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088893.post-1147398623851525542006-05-11T21:50:00.000-04:002006-05-11T21:50:00.000-04:00Where have you been? I knew about this in the 1980...Where have you been? I knew about this in the 1980's when the software was being developed. Some published algorithms got classified, and that was when I knew. It was right as I was going into the white out. <BR/><BR/>I don't agree with much that has been done, but in that case hadn't we better be talking to Congress? Congress allocated the money to build the infrastructure for all of this over a period of decades. <BR/><BR/>Now, granted, we now have a spineless, supine Congress, but perhaps we should turn our attention to electing people who better represent the concerns of the people?<BR/><BR/>I don't find the program as described detrimental to liberty, but sooner or later the Echelon-type of stuff will become dangerous. This type of thing is being used by multiple countries, though. It's hardly an American innovation. <BR/><BR/>The 314(a) stuff is being applied to look for common criminals, not cast a net for people whose greatest ambition in life is to become a mass murderer. I think you are straining at a gnat and prepared to swallow the camel.<BR/><BR/>Maybe something good will come out of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Maybe the average citizen will wake up and decide to become a little more stubborn about standing up for liberty. <BR/><BR/>But that cannot happen without a stronger Congress, Dingo. Sometimes we will have to use extreme measures. The effort here is to prevent American soil from becoming a literal battleground, and if it fails you will see those now bleating about this program prepared to nuke the world and throw all the Muslims into camps. Read DU - they are tipping over. It's not pretty.MaxedOutMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08011469804162511617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8088893.post-1147384072142377112006-05-11T17:47:00.000-04:002006-05-11T17:47:00.000-04:00From where I stand this seems like a settled issue...From where I stand this seems like a settled issue as a result of echelon because there didn't seem to by any revolt to stop that. For what it's worth I thought there should have been.<BR/><BR/>To protest this program now, which seems much less intrusive than echelon, strikes me a case of it's OK if the right guy is in office, and this isn't the right guy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com