> what fries my ass about this is how most people don't care!
The criminals will just do what they've done in the UK (land of surveillance gone mad): buy baseball caps and hoodies.
And dozens of bored young male camera operators will get paid for zooming in on unsuspecting young women. To be fair, they're far more easy to identify than hoodied hoodlums.
Still, all the terrorists and the illegal immigrants will soon have biometric ID cards. Then we won't need the cameras any more.
Well here we aee rattled and comncerned by a small minority in a very divided country re-elected a very questionable administartion with a person who does behave like "King George and his Republican nobles" and they plan to go on doing what they have been doing no matter what the results.
Even though things are evenly divided and there is no real "mandate" they keep acting like there was. I used to be pretty immune to the noises of conspiracy theorists but Bush is practicing one aspect that dictators like to practice which is repeating things until people start to believe them. This mandate thing is one of them.
I mean there are lots of us in the "Blue World" and to ignore what we think and act as if we are children who are just wrong who have to be scolded until they see the supposed light.
This is pretty sad for a democracty that supposedly is reponsive to all the people. The even sadder thing is that I don't think the current administration and the supposed inteloiigenc agencies know what is going on.
It really does make me sad. The US is a pretty sad excuse for a democracy with a clearly written out Bill of Rights and all these great princiciples. Right now it behaves like a power grabbing empire. No wonder a large portion of the world hates it and wants to see it come to no good end. Alas those people aren't the nicest of folks with clear thought either.
What is needed is a sensible group to try to figure out what is going on and what to do and somehow to accomplish this via legitinmate and legal means. This is why I only half jokingly propose the formation of the the RIA Real Intelligence Agency, to be establsihed here in Watsonville which is about as far from the beltway as you can get.;)
People have had a chance to form a reasonable and just society which was inclive, which watched out for unintended consequences of what we did in the past and tried to see both sides and this chance was blown. Let's hope that with a bit of effort we can get it back.
Have Fun, Sends Steve
> On 17 Nov 2004, at 22:03, atomic elroy wrote: > >> what fries my ass about this is how most people don't care! > > The criminals will just do what they've done in the UK (land of > surveillance gone mad): buy baseball caps and hoodies. > > And dozens of bored young male camera operators will get paid for > zooming in on unsuspecting young women. To be fair, they're far more > easy to identify than hoodied hoodlums. > > Still, all the terrorists and the illegal immigrants will soon have > biometric ID cards. Then we won't need the cameras any more. > > - Rob. > > + > -> post: [email protected] > -> questions: [email protected] > -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support > -> visit: on Fridays the Rhizome.org web site is open to non-members > + > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the > Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php >
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what fries my ass about this is how most people don't care!
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On 17 Nov 2004, at 22:03, atomic elroy wrote:
> what fries my ass about this is how most people don't care!
The criminals will just do what they've done in the UK (land of
surveillance gone mad): buy baseball caps and hoodies.
And dozens of bored young male camera operators will get paid for
zooming in on unsuspecting young women. To be fair, they're far more
easy to identify than hoodied hoodlums.
Still, all the terrorists and the illegal immigrants will soon have
biometric ID cards. Then we won't need the cameras any more.
- Rob.
Well here we aee rattled and comncerned by a small minority
in a very divided country re-elected a very questionable
administartion with a person who does behave like "King George
and his Republican nobles" and they plan to go on doing what
they have been doing no matter what the results.
Even though things are evenly divided and there is no real "mandate"
they keep acting like there was. I used to be pretty immune to
the noises of conspiracy theorists but Bush is practicing one aspect
that dictators like to practice which is repeating things until
people start to believe them. This mandate thing is one of them.
I mean there are lots of us in the "Blue World" and to ignore what
we think and act as if we are children who are just wrong who have to
be scolded until they see the supposed light.
This is pretty sad for a democracty that supposedly is reponsive to
all the people. The even sadder thing is that I don't think the current
administration and the supposed inteloiigenc agencies know what is
going on.
It really does make me sad. The US is a pretty sad excuse for a democracy
with a clearly written out Bill of Rights and all these great princiciples.
Right now it behaves like a power grabbing empire. No wonder a large portion
of the world hates it and wants to see it come to no good end. Alas those
people aren't the nicest of folks with clear thought either.
What is needed is a sensible group to try to figure out what is going on
and what to do and somehow to accomplish this via legitinmate and legal
means. This is why I only half jokingly propose the formation of the
the RIA Real Intelligence Agency, to be establsihed here in Watsonville
which is about as far from the beltway as you can get.;)
People have had a chance to form a reasonable and just society which was
inclive, which watched out for unintended consequences of what we did in
the past and tried to see both sides and this chance was blown.
Let's hope that with a bit of effort we can get it back.
Have Fun,
Sends Steve
> On 17 Nov 2004, at 22:03, atomic elroy wrote:
>
>> what fries my ass about this is how most people don't care!
>
> The criminals will just do what they've done in the UK (land of
> surveillance gone mad): buy baseball caps and hoodies.
>
> And dozens of bored young male camera operators will get paid for
> zooming in on unsuspecting young women. To be fair, they're far more
> easy to identify than hoodied hoodlums.
>
> Still, all the terrorists and the illegal immigrants will soon have
> biometric ID cards. Then we won't need the cameras any more.
>
> - Rob.
>
> +
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> +
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