That’s right, crucifixion. Don’t worry though, they’d already cut his head off.
But hey you shut up because money and Israeli national strategy require this alliance, okay, chump?
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Google is tracking your life and the police want that data
Jennifer Lynch at the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses the use by law enforcement of data stored in a Google database called Sensorvault. She also references a good New York Time article which shows specific uses of the data by police.
The data is collected by Google Apps and stored indefinitely in Sensorvault.
“The data Google is turning over to law enforcement is so precise that one deputy police chief said it “shows the whole pattern of life.” It’s collected even when people aren’t making calls or using apps, which means it can be even more detailed than data generated by cell towers.’
This technique is problematic for several reasons. First, unlike other methods of investigation used by the police, the police don’t start with an actual suspect or even a target device—they work backward from a location and time to identify a suspect. This makes it a fishing expedition—the very kind of search that the Fourth Amendment was intended to prevent. Searches like these—where the only information the police have is that a crime has occurred—are much more likely to implicate innocent people who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Every device owner in the area during the time at issue becomes a suspect—for no other reason than that they own a device that shares location information with Google.
As the Times article notes, this technique implicates innocent people and has a real impact on people’s lives. Even if you are later able to clear your name, if you spend any time at all in police custody, this could cost you your job, your car, and your ability to get back on your feet after the arrest. One man profiled in the Times article spent nearly a week in police custody and was having trouble recovering, even months after the arrest. He was arrested at work and subsequently lost his job. Due to the arrest, his car was impounded for investigation and later repossessed. These are the kinds of far-reaching consequences that can result from overly broad searches, so courts should subject geo-location warrants to far more scrutiny.
Bernie Is Right: Felons Should Vote
What’s the argument against felons voting? That they’d vote for someone who’d absolve them of their crimes? Felons might get 1-2% of a vote, so good luck with that.
What if felons could actually influence the vote? Let’s say 10%, 20%, maybe even 30% of the vote was comprised of felons. Yeah, that would be substantial influence. Think about the situation, though. 30% of your electorate is in prison??!!! Maybe there is something wrong with your laws then. In fact, maybe it would be critical to allow felons to vote in this situation so that the law could be reformed and you wouldn’t have 30% of your electorate behind bars. A society that locks up more than 1-2% of its people has problems.
The real argument against felons voting is that they’d all vote for democrats. That is, having nothing to do with their crimes, these people probably come from communities that want more government hand-outs. Mind you, this is just “the argument”, not my opinion. This is the same argument against immigration. Immigrants come from cultures that prefer a strong government that gives more hand-outs. This isn’t a libertarian outcome.
However, again, let’s think proportionally. It’s neither felons nor immigrants causing these ideologies of government and society. Maybe they’d push the needle over the threshold, but in order for these groups’ opinions to be relevant there’s a mass – a majority – of non-felon, non-immigrant, regular left liberal democrat Americans voting for big government.
Fighting over the margins is a waste of resources. Educate your “base”, let democracy happen. If half of America wants socialist healthcare, and is indoctrinated by the military industrial media complex, tough luck. See, that’s the point, even anti-socialist “red America” is blinded by deep state propaganda on war. The country’s political cancers are long past metastasis. We’re not going to win that bright libertarian future by stopping a few immigrants.
Donald Trump or Ted Cruz aren’t going to save America, so paring back a few million illegal California votes won’t matter. What would we get from limiting immigrant voter fraud? Maybe less Israel in the Golan Heights. Think about it! There’s no “good guy” team here.
Hell, maybe felons and immigrants voting will cut back against police state abuses!
General Says Marine Killed by IED in Afghanistan Should’ve Worn His Seat Belt
Not that he’s dissembling after helping get this man killed or anything.
I mean you know hey it may be true in a sense but in another sense yeah no it was the bomb and the presence of the marine in the first place that caused it.
Impeaching Trump
The liberals are bent on impeaching Trump. Utilitarian electoral calculations are their only considerations.
But how to impeach after he just got no-billed by the grand jury on the big collusion plot that never was, and no more than half-assed recommended for future possible charges on obstruction in the case of the big collusion plot that never was.
That’s some pretty thin gruel.
But I sympathize. All presidents should be impeached. And Trump is certainly no exception to that. But after the complete implosion of Russiagate, demands to impeach the president certainly ring partisan and shallow.
If you really want to remove Trump, there’s only one way to do it right and do it for real:
The Democrats are going to have to call for the prosecution of Barack H. Obama for waging an unauthorized, illegal, literally treasonous, genocidal war in Yemen.
Once his indictment is returned, and it is proven that they are really going through with his prosecution, it will then be safe for the House to begin impeachment proceedings against Donald J. Trump and with a bipartisan consensus to move forward in the Senate with removal from office, whereupon a new grand jury will be waiting to indict him on the very same charges.
No need to get all martyr-y here. Life without parole in the Supermax in cages next to Ramzi Yousef and Ted Kaczynski would be appropriate for both.
Does this seem silly? That the federal laws against war crimes, the Geneva Conventions, the recently invoked War Powers Resolution; that these things would apply in real life to American presidents who deliberately slaughter helpless babies? That the Democrats would ever in a million years sacrifice their number one hero in order to prove they’re being fair when removing Trump, the greatest menace humanity has ever faced, according to them, on the most severe charges that could be brought against him? That they would do so even as a last ditch attempt to enforce the War Powers Resolution to stop this genocidal war and save those babies’ lives?
Of course it is silly. Government employees in America are far above and beyond the law. They can murder whichever babies the feel like. The House and Senate will always and forever appropriate all the money necessary as they click their heels and salute. No matter what. Partisan advantage will never concede to a genocide. Not in America. Not of Arabs. Never.
Right?
Bernie Sanders: I Am Not An Anti-Semite
But Netanyahu’s government is racist and treats the Palestinians horribly.
Chomsky on Russiagate: Don’t Be Stupid
Here’s some more Chomsky from a couple weeks ago on what he called the “farcical” fixation on Russiagate and Trump/Russia collusion. Twitter often distorts the critical difference between establishment liberalism & leftism so Chomsky is great to listen to on all of this: pic.twitter.com/8zqQ9VhFhl
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 20, 2019
Netanyahu Calls for New Golan Settlement to Be Named for Trump
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