[ExI] Feel Safer Now?

Amara Graps amara at amara.com
Sun Mar 16 22:32:48 UTC 2008


Gary Miller:
>I went to your links and read the articles on each site Amara to find out
>what I have been missing.  And since I had already read those articles
>elsewhere or similar versions of those articles and found no significant
>details which were missing from the versions I read I am satisfied that the
>news sources I read regularly are varied enough and are not filtered such
>that I am not receiving a propagandist view.

Then you didn't read enough because those two web sites are full of data
about the 'anti-terrorist' actions of the Feds that went awry (most of
the cases are like that) or where they applied the hastily-passed
Congressional bills for other purposes than what is was intended, or
(more) of your 200 year old constitutional rights destroyed. Maybe you
missed that there are human beings labelled as 'enemy combatants'
(government-speak for terrorists), who have been locked away arbitrarily
for years at Guantanamo Bay, no contact with lawyers or their families,
poor treatment, so one shouldn't be surprised that there have been
hundreds of suicide attempts and at least 4 successful ones. Maybe you
missed that the Feds started a war on a pretext, invading another
country, with almost 90,000 civilians dead (iraqbodycount.org), and
with no end in sight using 'terrorism' as one of their
fear-amplification tools to continue the process. As of 2008, the Feds
can pick you up and take you away for no more than you sneezing out of
your left nostril, and you don't have to be an American citizen or on US
soil for that to happen.

In fact your skin doesn't even need to be dark or you speaking Arabic or
have a cousin in Egypt for that to happen, although that helps, since
the US government continues to use Profiling as a means to identify who
they should consider as terrorists or not. Even though it has been
rigorously demonstrated that Profiling _does not work_. So in addition
to the EFF and Declan's sites as good sources of information, I suggest
to add Bruce Schneier's web site to your list of information resources
as well:

http://www.schneier.com/index.html

Here's one of his articles about Profiling:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/profiling.html

And more articles about the Federal Security Theatre
http://www.schneier.com/essays.html

The money the Feds (and all of the other governments who have followed)
spend on their theatre is well-spent, right?

Hopefully you can sleep at night that those persons who are dark skinned
and who like Persian poetry are locked away, keeping _you_ safe,  since
that illusion of safety and people's fear is what allows the process to
continue. Until that is, we are all locked away except for the jailors
with the keys.

And please as I'm sure that the US Federal government would like, have
a very nice and fear-filled day,

Amara



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