The world changed rapidly after 9/11 and we are living out the consequences of giving up our civil liberties. Privacy is integral to freedom and breaching privacy is key to removing freedom. International Day of Privacy 2013 on Feb 23 is our way of exercising the rights we used to have.
Directly post 9/11 The Patriot Act passed into law breaking many different aspects of citizens rights and amongst the rights lost was privacy while using electronics. The Patriot Act allows the government to run dragnet surveillance of all electronic communication under the guise of searching for terrorist threats without warrants. This was followed up by the NDAA which removed the right to due process, and allows the US military to run active missions on American soil.
Here- as it is everywhere- we are surrounded by CCTV cameras constantly, and here the government has been caught using a system called Trapwire. Trapwire is a program that scans through all the vast collected CCTV camera data to find... well anything you ask it to. The result is you can easily be tracked, monitored, and you are almost always being recorded. Again the excuse for such a program is that it finds potential terrorists. Not content with the already pervasive network of cameras at their disposal our government has cleared the way (and in some places is already using) drones to police citizens.
The advent of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Transit Safety Authority (TSA) is the advent of the police state. TSA is part of DHS and both are justified by the war on terror. The TSA is an expanding office which restricts the movements of citizens (they maintain secret “no fly lists” for example) and at this point you must be searched, radiated, and fondled to travel by plane. The TSA is currently spreading out to include rail systems and roadside checks as well. DHS is the tarp under which all of the domestic surveillance and control programs are run. They maintain the databases that are used to track everyone, and they have retrofitted our police into a military to enforce their control (look at the over policing and labeling of occupy as terrorists). DHS, through its “fusion centers” has gone so far as to issue decrees that classify everyone as a “potential terrorist” which makes them fair game to be monitored. DHS has also instigated a snitching system for civilians to turn each other in (“see something say something”, and infraguard).
The grand total of post 9/11 DHS run America is this: We are a police state. We are under soft martial law. We are being monitored and tracked. Our government has canceled all of our rights- especially our right to privacy.
Directly post 9/11 The Patriot Act passed into law breaking many different aspects of citizens rights and amongst the rights lost was privacy while using electronics. The Patriot Act allows the government to run dragnet surveillance of all electronic communication under the guise of searching for terrorist threats without warrants. This was followed up by the NDAA which removed the right to due process, and allows the US military to run active missions on American soil.
Here- as it is everywhere- we are surrounded by CCTV cameras constantly, and here the government has been caught using a system called Trapwire. Trapwire is a program that scans through all the vast collected CCTV camera data to find... well anything you ask it to. The result is you can easily be tracked, monitored, and you are almost always being recorded. Again the excuse for such a program is that it finds potential terrorists. Not content with the already pervasive network of cameras at their disposal our government has cleared the way (and in some places is already using) drones to police citizens.
The advent of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Transit Safety Authority (TSA) is the advent of the police state. TSA is part of DHS and both are justified by the war on terror. The TSA is an expanding office which restricts the movements of citizens (they maintain secret “no fly lists” for example) and at this point you must be searched, radiated, and fondled to travel by plane. The TSA is currently spreading out to include rail systems and roadside checks as well. DHS is the tarp under which all of the domestic surveillance and control programs are run. They maintain the databases that are used to track everyone, and they have retrofitted our police into a military to enforce their control (look at the over policing and labeling of occupy as terrorists). DHS, through its “fusion centers” has gone so far as to issue decrees that classify everyone as a “potential terrorist” which makes them fair game to be monitored. DHS has also instigated a snitching system for civilians to turn each other in (“see something say something”, and infraguard).
The grand total of post 9/11 DHS run America is this: We are a police state. We are under soft martial law. We are being monitored and tracked. Our government has canceled all of our rights- especially our right to privacy.
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