[extropy-chat] A New Ultra-Secret Government Agency

[The Avantguardian]

Yes, Samantha. This is the scarier than the USA
PATRIOT act by far. I can't believe they would even
propose such a thing. This has got to be big pharm's
bid to supplant the military-industrial complex as the
power base of the U.S. economy.

 

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:

> An agency dealing in deadly materials that is exempt
> from all  
> oversight?  Why?  Unaccountable government is a far
> worse threat than  
> any real potential for bioterrorism.   The FOIA and
> other current  
> oversight legislation already allows huge
> protections for supposedly  
> sensitive information.  If this agency wants vastly
> more than that  
> then that is a great red flag that dirty deeds are
> very likely if not  
> already planned.   For instance, there have been
> incidents of  
> government programs doing experiments on
> non-volunteer civilian  
> populations in the past.  With oversight disabled
> completely those  
> incidents and perhaps worse to come would never be
> known.
> 
> - samantha
> 
> 
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. . ."

- Albert Einstein, "What I Believe" (1930)


		
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