EFF Challenges National Security Letter Statute in Landmark Lawsuit
That is great news!<p>My personal guesstimate is that the general American public is more aware of such dirty things than it was, say, 20 years ago and I think it is due to internet, mainly due to alternative news sources that would get the truth out because the lame-stream media would rather tell you songs about democracy and not tell you about the secrecy and anything bad the government and corporations have been doing.<p>These wiretappings were probably more focus on black liberation movements and "Commies" a few decades ago, then the focus has been on Muslims now that the US is not supporting Osama bin Laden type in Afghanistan (they are still propping up the regimes in Saudia etc and supporting Osama-types in Libya, Syria etc).<p>The shameless NYPD spied on entire Muslim community and on ordinary citizens without any probable cause, without any legal authority. Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder lied about it and the Department of (in)justice hasn't done anything to correct it.<p><a href="http://michaelcostello.blogspot.com/2012/06/wiretap-documents-prove-eric-holder.html" rel="nofollow">http://michaelcostello.blogspot.com/2012/06/wiretap-document...</a><p><a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/all/1" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa...</a><p>Shady Companies With Ties to Israel Wiretap the U.S. for the NSA<p>April 3, 2012<p><a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/muslim-civil-rights-groups-boycott-nypds-ramadan-conference.html" rel="nofollow">http://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/muslim-civil-rights-groups-boy...</a><p>In the wake of the New York Police Department’s spy scandal, a coalition of Muslim groups in New York announced a boycott of the Ramadan conference, which was held this morning. Ramadan, the Islamic holy month, begins later this month.<p>I say the government and the corporations because it's all part of the same group of people, the Chertoff guy who gave us the porn scanners for TSA used to work for the Homeland Security.<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=chertoff+scanners" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=chertoff+scanners</a><p>The Summers guy hired by Obama to clean up the mess was the guy who helped create the mess.<p>There is good money to be made in this dirty business; we must kill them because otherwise X[n] is coming to get us. 
President Y[m].<p>we must spy on our people because otherwise X[n] is coming to get us. 
President Y[m].<p>Where m and n vary based on the year and X = {Bloody commies, Ruskies, Terrorists, Mozlums}<p>and Y = {JF Kennedy <i>1, LB Johnson </i>2, Jimmy Carter <i>3, Ronald Reagan </i>4, Bush I <i>5, Bill Clinton </i>6, Bush II, B Obama}<p><i>1 Wanted to "win" the Vietnam war rather than allow them to elect Ho Chi Minh (who would have won if elections were held, as Eisenhower himself acknowledged).<p></i>2 Continued the same shit in the same and some more countries<p><i>3 Helped South Korean dictator (yes, South Korean dictator) kill a few thousand protesters<p><a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-10-15/news/carter-hounded-by-kwangju-massacre/" rel="nofollow">http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-10-15/news/carter-hounded-b...</a><p></i>4 Helped Saddam kill Iranians with US-supplied killing machines<p><i>5 The "I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are" President (after killing a few hundred Iranians by shooting a civilian airplane) helped kill Iraqis on the pretext of helping Kuwaitis, remember the incubator babies hoax?
<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=incubator+babies+kuwait+hoax" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=incubator+babies+kuwait+hoax</a><p></i>6 Continued bombing Iraq and helped kill at least half a million Iraqi babies
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