The Government Is Detaining and Interrogating Journalists and Advocates at the US-Mexico Border

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REAVERFAN

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6:26 AM

https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/freedom-press/government-detaini
ng-and-interrogating-journalists-and-advocates-us?fbclid=IwAR0B4PPa8IztAayjGoXuJDf9jdxlPsjlsc_lKuTcvcGTMBRAj5-nekPk6ck

In what looks like a coordinated attack on constitutional rights, the U.S. government has reportedly been targeting journalists, activists, and lawyers working to raise awareness of issues facing migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

On Wednesday, the NBC affiliate in San Diego revealed leaked documents showing that authorities — including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the FBI — targeted these journalists and activists for scrutiny at the border and created a secret database containing dossiers that included their personal details, social media information, and descriptions of their migrant-related work.

This follows news reports in February documenting how CBP repeatedly subjected journalists to lengthy interrogation and confiscations of their cameras and notes at border facilities. The U.S. government also apparently worked with Mexican authorities to prevent photojournalists from entering Mexico to report on migrant issues.

Let’s be clear: This is unconstitutional.

-Then, what do trumptards care about the constitution? They don't even know what it says.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6:36 AM

There's a "secret" database on all of us. Every time I post something in here it's sitting next to phone conversations I have with my parents on some hard drives deep down in some bunker. Nobody ever actually reads or listens to any of it, but it's there just in case I ever become a person of interest.

Buying a VPN won't save you from any of that either. If anything, willingly signing up for one and putting it on your credit card is almost like an admission of guilt that you are or you intend to skirt the laws online and you're more likely to be put in a different basket of people to watch a little more closely than people without VPNs.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 3:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There's a "secret" database on all of us. Every time I post something in here it's sitting next to phone conversations I have with my parents on some hard drives deep down in ~~some bunker~~ the Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center in Camp Williams, Utah, . Nobody ever actually reads or listens to any of it, but it's there just in case I ever become a person of interest.

Thank you, President Obama, for this contribution to our privacy!

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

SHINYGOODGUY

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:47 PM

OOOoooo, the Deep State is watching. Little baby geese, they're juggled!

sgg

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There's a "secret" database on all of us. Every time I post something in here it's sitting next to phone conversations I have with my parents on some hard drives deep down in some bunker. Nobody ever actually reads or listens to any of it, but it's there just in case I ever become a person of interest.

Buying a VPN won't save you from any of that either. If anything, willingly signing up for one and putting it on your credit card is almost like an admission of guilt that you are or you intend to skirt the laws online and you're more likely to be put in a different basket of people to watch a little more closely than people without VPNs.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SHINYGOODGUY

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 4:50 PM

In a fascist state, this is what happens. Fear is key and so, we have the jackbooted thugs rounding people up and detaining them. Just like in a Banana
Republic....you know, the Shithole States.

Noriega would be proud.

SGG

Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/freedom-press/government-detaini
ng-and-interrogating-journalists-and-advocates-us?fbclid=IwAR0B4PPa8IztAayjGoXuJDf9jdxlPsjlsc_lKuTcvcGTMBRAj5-nekPk6ck

In what looks like a coordinated attack on constitutional rights, the U.S. government has reportedly been targeting journalists, activists, and lawyers working to raise awareness of issues facing migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

On Wednesday, the NBC affiliate in San Diego revealed leaked documents showing that authorities — including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the FBI — targeted these journalists and activists for scrutiny at the border and created a secret database containing dossiers that included their personal details, social media information, and descriptions of their migrant-related work.

This follows news reports in February documenting how CBP repeatedly subjected journalists to lengthy interrogation and confiscations of their cameras and notes at border facilities. The U.S. government also apparently worked with Mexican authorities to prevent photojournalists from entering Mexico to report on migrant issues.

Let’s be clear: This is unconstitutional.

-Then, what do trumptards care about the constitution? They don't even know what it says.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 6:20 PM

They've been watching since the "Patriot" Act came into being.

Every single thing you've ever posted anywhere. Any phone conversation you've ever had. It's all on file.

Maybe you're lucky that you don't live in a fascist dictatorship, and that Trump isn't really a fascist.

Ask the good people of South Korea what happened to anybody who held any leftist opinions for 40 years after WWII. Never mind North Korea.

Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
OOOoooo, the Deep State is watching. Little baby geese, they're juggled!

sgg

Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There's a "secret" database on all of us. Every time I post something in here it's sitting next to phone conversations I have with my parents on some hard drives deep down in some bunker. Nobody ever actually reads or listens to any of it, but it's there just in case I ever become a person of interest.

Buying a VPN won't save you from any of that either. If anything, willingly signing up for one and putting it on your credit card is almost like an admission of guilt that you are or you intend to skirt the laws online and you're more likely to be put in a different basket of people to watch a little more closely than people without VPNs.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SHINYGOODGUY

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:30 PM

Quote:
They've been watching since the "Patriot" Act came into being.

Yes, blame W for that one. Or is it Cheney? A deflection worthy of the best in
terms of complete denial of facts (see below).

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Every single thing you've ever posted anywhere. Any phone conversation you've ever had. It's all on file.

Well, I guess I'm going to hell. Here let me make sure: "The Deep State could suck my dick. No collusion!"

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Maybe you're lucky that you don't live in a fascist dictatorship,

Hate to break it to you buddy. We're there!

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and that Trump isn't really a fascist.

Ha! I could always count on you to make me laugh. Trump, a fascist...naaaahhh!

sgg

SHINYGOODGUY

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:41 PM

Here Jack, let me make you feel at home:

The fascist state of Z.

SGG

SHINYGOODGUY

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 11:16 PM

No fascists.....anywhere

Is Libya a free country?

In other regimes around the world, fascism exists

Around the fucking world...

What do all these "shitholes" have in common?

sgg

SIGNYM

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 11:30 PM

Well, to go to the economic definition of "fascism", since our government (both Democrats and Republicans) work for the benefit of large corporations (altho Democrats tend to focus on transantionals and banks, while Republicans under Trump tend to focus on companies based in the USA) I would say we're about 85% fascist on that.

In terms of the "civil rights" aspects of fascism, that's a tougher call since we will not often be told when, how, and by whom our civil rights are being violated. But at this point of universal surveillance (GWB, Obama) and the creation of large databases of information (GWB, Obama), arrests without habeas corpus (GWB, Obama) plus punishment without trial (Obama), vigorous prosecution of whistleblowers (Obama), the willing partnership of the legacy M$M (since at least Vietnam) and social media (since Trump, but not at Trump's direction) with the deep state ... hmmm... I'd say we're about 80% there, too.

BTW: Libya? It's a clusterfuck that we created. It may have been a clusterfuck all on its own, but since we broke it, we bought it.

*****

So basically, SGG, here's what I suggest:

1) One of the main purposes of political fascism is to get people to fall into line, either by pounding a message at us day after day (WMD!!! WMD!! WMD!! or "terrorism! terrorism! terrorism! or RUSSIA!RUSSIA!RUSSIA!) or by prosecuting/ detaining/ de-platforming whistleblowers or those with alternate views.

The fix for that is to view ALL news with an extremely healthy dose of skepticism, to the point of being just sheerly oppositional. At this point, I assume that the M$M is lying almost all of the time, and that the alternates are often mistaken. Disbelieve everything you hear or read at first blush until there is solid evidence behind it. That will keep you from being stampeded by propaganda.

2) Economically, reduce your debt burden as much as possible, and be something of a "prepper". Prepare for emergencies, whether that is hurricane, blizzard, flood, fire, or earthquake. Try to form working bonds with your neighbors, since nobody will get thru this alone, and peel yourself from the financial system as much as possible. There is a lot of advice "out there" so I won't go through it all, but at least keep some cash on-hand if power goes out or financial systems are massively hacked. Along those lines, I think probably JSF is the most prepared because of his semi-rural lifestyle.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

CAPTAINCRUNCH

Thursday, March 14, 2019 12:21 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM: Along those lines, I think probably JSF is the most prepared because of his semi-rural lifestyle.

Congratulations JSF! You have been deemed: Dumb or vain enough (or both) to be recruited. Enjoy your monthly quota of fake hi-larity "hahaha! You owe me a keyboard, JSF!" or similar examples of genuine patronizing. Or, "best post eva JSF!" attaboy ego-stroking. You have done the Motherland proud, and all without even knowing it. Win-win!

SIGNYM

Thursday, March 14, 2019 2:01 AM

I guess since you don't have an actual reality-based response, you have to resort to defamation and lies, like the good little propagndist that you are.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

RUE

Thursday, March 14, 2019 2:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
OOOoooo, the Deep State is watching. Little baby geese, they're juggled!

sgg

I'm guessing you don't care about your privacy, or about the Constitutional protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

RUE

Thursday, March 14, 2019 2:15 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
In a fascist state, this is what happens. Fear is key and so, we have the jackbooted thugs rounding people up and detaining them. Just like in a Banana
Republic....you know, the Shithole States.

Noriega would be proud.

SGG

How about rounding up and deporting. Does that count?

Quote:
Obama Has Deported More People Than Any Other President
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-deportation-policy-numbers/stor
y

THG

Thursday, March 14, 2019 2:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM: Along those lines, I think probably JSF is the most prepared because of his semi-rural lifestyle.

Congratulations JSF! You have been deemed: Dumb or vain enough (or both) to be recruited. Enjoy your monthly quota of fake hi-larity "hahaha! You owe me a keyboard, JSF!" or similar examples of genuine patronizing. Or, "best post eva JSF!" attaboy ego-stroking. You have done the Motherland proud, and all without even knowing it. Win-win!

Sig says you don't have a reality based response G. How funny is that?

T

RUE

Thursday, March 14, 2019 2:49 AM

Quote:
They've been watching since the "Patriot" Act came into being.

Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:

Yes, blame W for that one. Or is it Cheney?

sgg

Does it matter to you that Obama vastly expanded surveillance of innocent people? Or that Congressional democrats were on-board with it? (See the link for an extensive list of Obama administration surveillance abuses. I got tired of copy/paste and only quoted a very few.)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_on_mass_surveillance
U.S. president Barack Obama has received widespread criticism due to his support of government surveillance.

In 2011, Obama signed a four-year renewal of the Patriot Act, specifically provisions allowing roaming wiretaps and government searches of business records. Obama argued that the renewal was needed to protect the United States from terrorist attacks. ... Obama received criticism for his reversal on privacy protection.

In June 2013, reports from a cache of top secret documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its international partners had created a global system of surveillance that was responsible for the mass collection of information on American and foreign citizens.

Obama initially defended NSA mass surveillance programs when they were first leaked. He argued that NSA surveillance was transparent and claimed that the NSA is unable and had made no attempt to monitor the phone calls and e-mails of American citizens. Following Snowden's admittance to leaking classified documents regarding national surveillance, Obama attempted to ignore the issue of NSA surveillance. It was speculated that Obama did this to avoid complicating the Department of Justice investigation into Snowden.

In August 2013, Obama argued that his administration was already in the process of reviewing the NSA surveillance programs when they were leaked by Snowden. Obama stated that it would have been best for the American people to have never learned about the programs. ... However, he also promised to make public information about government surveillance and work with Congress to increase public confidence in the government.

On January 17, 2014, President Obama gave a public address on mass surveillance ... (where) Obama promised increased restrictions on data collection of American citizens, which would include the requirement of court approval for searches of telephone records. In addition, Obama called for increased oversight and admitted the dangers NSA surveillance posed to civil liberties.
Reactions

Obama's speech was criticized for being deliberately vague and not going far enough to protect civil liberties.

Representatives for Google, Facebook and Yahoo stated that Obama's proposed reforms represented positive progress, but that they did not ultimately do enough to protect privacy rights. A representative for Mozilla noted that mass surveillance had damaged the open Internet and caused balkanization and distrust.

On March 25, 2014, Obama promised to end the NSA's collection and storage of bulk phone-call data. Despite this promise, his administration continued to seek reauthorization of the telephone metadata program.

But then, despite all his promises

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Obama Expands Surveillance Powers on His Way Out
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/obama-expands-surveillance-power
s-his-way-out With mere days left before President-elect Donald Trump takes the White House, President Barack Obama’s administration just finalized rules to make it easier for the nation’s intelligence agencies to share unfiltered information about innocent people.

New rules issued by the Obama administration under Executive Order 12333 will let the NSA—which collects information under that authority with little oversight, transparency, or concern for privacy—share the raw streams of communications it intercepts directly with agencies includin

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RUE

Thursday, March 14, 2019 2:52 AM

SGG, your posts are full of sound and fury - signifying nothing.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, March 14, 2019 6:48 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Quote:
They've been watching since the "Patriot" Act came into being.

Yes, blame W for that one. Or is it Cheney? A deflection worthy of the best in
terms of complete denial of facts (see below).

Quote:
Every single thing you've ever posted anywhere. Any phone conversation you've ever had. It's all on file.

Well, I guess I'm going to hell. Here let me make sure: "The Deep State could suck my dick. No collusion!"

Quote:
Maybe you're lucky that you don't live in a fascist dictatorship,

Hate to break it to you buddy. We're there!

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and that Trump isn't really a fascist.

Ha! I could always count on you to make me laugh. Trump, a fascist...naaaahhh!

sgg

Witty. /sarcasm

I see you failed to quote or give a reply to the most important part of the post.

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Ask the good people of South Korea what happened to anybody who held any leftist opinions for 40 years after WWII. Never mind North Korea.

Look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about.

There is absolutely no doubt why you did.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

REAVERFAN

Friday, March 15, 2019 3:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
OOOoooo, the Deep State is watching. Little baby geese, they're juggled!

sgg
I'm guessing you don't care about your privacy, or about the Constitutional protection from unreasonable search and seizure.

That blew up years ago, and we'll never get it back.

RUE

Friday, March 15, 2019 3:58 AM

Obama certainly was pushing surveillance along, and Congressional democrats were only too happy to approve - the same was they approved the Patriot Act under dubya.

This is a democrat effort as well.

BTW, if you want privacy, go to Europe. They have the constitutional right to it.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, March 15, 2019 6:04 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
BTW, if you want privacy, go to Europe. They have the constitutional right to it.

You're joking, right?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Friday, March 15, 2019 11:32 AM

Quote:
Whistleblowers say NSA still spies on American phones in hidden program

Meanwhile, the bulk of the NSA’s surveillance and “offensive” information warfare capabilities remain completely unknown

*****

On Monday 4th, the New York Times reported that the National Security Agency has “quietly” shut down a controversial phone records surveillance program revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.

The claim was made by a senior Republican congressional aide who told the newspaper that the Trump administration had stopped using the program, which analyses the domestic call and text logs of American citizens, due to technical problems.

On Twitter Snowden hailed the news as a “victory”, while Intercept journalist Glen Greenwald, who broke the Snowden story to international acclaim, took the story at face value. Neither of them raised the obvious question?—?is the “shut down” of this program merely a smokescreen to continue spying on American phones under new or different secretive programs?

Since then, further doubt was cast on the NYT report when NSA chief General Paul Nakasone refused to confirm or deny the story. But he did tell a major security conference on Wednesday that the agency was still “in a deliberative process” about whether to use a revamped version of the vast database of American phone records.

All of this, however, is an elaborate ruse. According to two former top NSA officials interviewed by INSURGE, there is no credible reason to believe that NSA phone surveillance has truly been shut down.
What shut down?

When the NYT story broke, I reached out to two former senior NSA officials, Russ Tice and Thomas Drake, to find out what they thought.

Both of them told me that the NSA’s shut down of this particular program did not imply an end to domestic phone record surveillance, but quite the opposite?—?that the program had been superseded by superior technology.

According to Russ Tice, a former senior NSA intelligence analyst who had previously worked with the US Air Force, Office of Naval Intelligence and Defense Intelligence Agency, the latest claim that the NSA was rolling up phone surveillance beggared belief.
Former NSA intelligence analyst Russ Tice

“Why would anyone believe a bloody word of what NSA says about their mass domestic surveillance programs?” said Tice, who was the first NSA whistleblower who exposed unlawful surveillance and wiretaps of American citizens as early as May 2005. “They have lied repeatedly in the past and they are likely lying now. They have been collecting meta data and content, word-for-word, both voice and text, for some time now.”

I asked Tice how certain he was that the NSA was still conducting phone surveillance of Americans in the United States. “Of course NSA is still conducting phone and computer comms surveillance and yes, ‘wider programs’ go on and a new massive program that is more efficient is likely to have already been implemented,” he told me.

The real reason the current program has become defunct is because there is now better technology for more advanced surveillance.

“If anything, they no longer need this particular program to parse the card catalog?—?meta data?—?and can mine the content data directly with enhanced algorithms and processing and strapping. And when there is no pushback capability, congress is at the mercy of NSA to inform them on NSA’s abuses.”

Hidden programs under secret interpretations of different laws

Thomas Drake, a former senior executive of the NSA who blew the whistle on illegal mass surveillance, waste and mismanagement at the agency several years before Snowden’s revelations, agreed that NSA phone surveillance “continues in other forms” in spite of the closure of this particular program.

Much has been made of the impending expiry of the USA Freedom Act of 2015, due this December, under which the current phone surveillance program is run. But Drake told me that the NSA simply doesn’t need the Freedom Act to authorise continued warrantless phone surveillance of America

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SIGNYM

Friday, March 15, 2019 10:20 PM

I'm surprised that the liberaloids here aren't all huffing and puffing about the continuing loss of our civil liberties.

I guess they must really like the "Russian" way of life.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

REAVERFAN

Saturday, March 16, 2019 7:54 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm surprised that the liberaloids here aren't all huffing and puffing about the continuing loss of our civil liberties.

I guess they must really like the "Russian" way of life.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

That battle was lost under Bush.

SIGNYM

Saturday, March 16, 2019 8:11 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm surprised that the liberaloids here aren't all huffing and puffing about the continuing loss of our civil liberties.

I guess they must really like the "Russian" way of life.

-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
That battle was lost under Bush.

Then why are you still whinging about it?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, March 16, 2019 5:41 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:
Originally posted by reaverfan:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm surprised that the liberaloids here aren't all huffing and puffing about the continuing loss of our civil liberties.

I guess they must really like the "Russian" way of life.

-----------
Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
That battle was lost under Bush.

Then why are you still whinging about it?

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

Well, to be fair, there is plenty of damned good reasons to whine about it... and more.

At least Marcos admitted that this problem goes further back than Trump. Although I doubt very much that he'd admit that Obama furthered the cause. Though I haven't seen it get any better under Trump, I'm not aware of any instances where it's gotten worse as far as the Government is concerned.

Unfortunately, the Twitters and Facebooks and the like are doing a damn good job censoring people.

In the mean time, I recommend to everyone here to sign up for a Gab account.

They're unrolling an entire platform called "Dissenter" which will one day allow anybody to comment on any article or youtube video, which will really come in handy since most MSM outlets have disabled the ability for users to comment on the articles and YouTube is discussing doing the same thing to all YouTube videos in the future.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

SIGNYM

Sunday, March 17, 2019 12:40 AM

Oh I agree ... plenty of reasons to omplain. But when REAVERBOT runs around waving his arms in the air exclaiming ALL IS LOST! ... dood, it's lost. If something is lost then you have to stop grinding on it and move on.

Now, since REAVERBOT STILL complains bitterly about some things, presumably ahe doesn't REALLY believe that all is lost. I'm just pointing out the contradiction.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

SIGNYM

Sunday, March 17, 2019 7:47 AM

Hey SIX:Dissenter was just banned in NZ. NZ also criminalized the possession of any of the live=stream of the mass shooting.

WTH, do they think that hiding the truth from people will make things better? How can anyone figure out what happened and why unless they have access to first-hand data? Are we supposed to just trust government to tell us what happened, and what's real?

I suppose, tho, that the liberaloids in this forum will find some way to excuse THIS form of censorship (bc it was done by the Kiwi government, and Kiwis are cool and socialist) even as they criticize Trump for lesser offenses. Just like "terrorism is terrorism" no matter who does it, they haven't figured out that censorship is censorship, no matter who does it.

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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND

America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, March 17, 2019 5:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Hey SIX:Dissenter was just banned in NZ. NZ also criminalized the possession of any of the live=stream of the mass shooting.

This doesn't surprise me in the least. This is along the lines of why I asked Rue if she was kidding in the other thread about Europeans having a right to privacy. (I realize that NZ is not in Europe, but outside of the US there hardly are any rights at all).

Personally, I would never watch the video, but I just don't have the stomach for that sort of thing. I won't even watch any movies that are considered "ultra-violent". I actually turned off the second Silence of the Lambs movie with the brain scene in disgust.

But at the same time, I think it should be out there for people to dissect.

Quote:
WTH, do they think that hiding the truth from people will make things better? How can anyone figure out what happened and why unless they have access to first-hand data? Are we supposed to just trust government to tell us what happened, and what's real?

That's what they're trying to do here. Remember when CNN told us that it was their job to tell us what to believe? (Stay classy, Mika)

Quote:
I suppose, tho, that the liberaloids in this forum will find some way to excuse THIS form of censorship (bc it was done by the Kiwi government, and Kiwis are cool and socialist) even as they criticize Trump for lesser offenses. Just like "terrorism is terrorism" no matter who does it, they haven't figured out that censorship is censorship, no matter who does it.

Of course they will celebrate it.

If RF was at all serious about sticking it to the man, he would be a huge supporter of Gab and Dissenter. Why do I doubt that's the case though?

Do Right, Be Right. :)