Safety - Security - Encryption

I'm listening to a discussion on Fox News this morning, and they are discussing the country's need for security, versus the citizens rights to privacy.  And the obvious Democrat operative is saying that if we want security, we need to give up our right to privacy.

Uhhh no.  The US Government HAD a program that was already tracking the mosque where the husband (I won't name either of those two terrorist murderers), and it was shut down by the Obama Administration State Department under Hillary Clinton, citing that it might be interpreted as "Profiling". 

They were already keeping an eye on the members of that particular mosque, when they were shut down because of "Political Correctness".  They didn't NEED to collect all of the private communications or metadata of EVERY citizen in this nation to prevent the attack.  They just needed to follow established protocols that were already in place and have been proven to work in the past.

However, the US State Department, under Hillary Clinton, and Barrack Obama, shut the program down.

So you tell me what we need.

The ability to use existing programs that have a proven track record, or the violation of the privacy rights of EVERY CITIZEN in this nation, which allows a Government which has a proven record of the misuse and over reach of such information.

There are many people saying that Rand Paul and Ted Cruz when they voted to shut down the bulk collection of metadata made our country less safe, nope.  It's it's Obama, Clinton, Kerry, Holder, Lynch and all the rest of those bureaucrats, that have made us less safe.

And they are continuing to try to make us less safe and more open to attack, so they can have their way with our rights.

I will make a prediction.

The next attack will come within the next 90 days, it will be in the midwest, possibly Chicago, St. Louis, or Memphis, with a small possibility of Kansas City, Indianapolis, Scott Air Force Base, Whiteman Air Force Base, Fort Leonard Wood, or Detroit being hit.

How do I choose those particular targets?

Democrat controlled civil governments, problems with the police departments, high value targets, symbolic value targets, evidence of preparations already being made in those areas.

According to friends still in Law Enforcement up in the Missouri/Illinois area, there have been some unusual thefts and attempts at theft in and around the Metropolitan areas of St. Louis, Kansas City, Memphis, and Cook County Illinois.

Delivery company vehicles, uniforms from those same companies have been stolen/are missing.  Large numbers of pre-paid cell phones being purchased/stolen, large numbers of propane tanks being stolen, several attempts of theft at mining and road construction sites.  People going to gun stores and guns shows trying to purchase large quantities of firearms without going through the NICS background checks or filling out Form 4473, offering more than the firearms are worth to buy "Under the table".  Increases in home burglaries of homes that DO have firearms in them.  According to a friend who is a detective with a police department in the St. Louis area, handguns which are normally the weapon of choice for being stolen and sold on the street are being surpassed with more and more rifles being stolen, and they don't know where they are going.  They aren't showing up on the streets, at pawn shops or anywhere else.

Take all this evidence in, and something is going on.

And STILL the government is saying they need to be able to read all of our private communications.  When ordinary police work and surveillance will tell them what is going on.

So for that reason alone, I don't trust them.

France's own Patriot Act

"After a series of coordinated terrorist attacks left 129 dead in Paris Friday, Hollande immediately declared a state of emergency, based on a rarely used 1955 law that allows the state to conduct warrantless searches of private property, impose curfews, restrict public gatherings and movements of people, confiscate weapons at will and take over the press.

By law the state of emergency cannot last more than 12 days, but Hollande asked for a three-month extension Monday. He also proposed a series of constitutional amendments to increase the state’s surveillance powers and give it power to strip convicted terrorists and bi-nationals who commit hostile acts toward France of citizenship.

Hollande said the amendments are necessary so the state doesn’t have to “resort to the state of emergency” to deal with terror threats. “We must change our constitution to act against terrorism,” he said Monday."

Even though it has been mangled by later tellings, Benjamin Franklin's original still says it best.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

And France, who has strict Gun Control, now chisels away at it's Citizens remaining Freedoms. All for a a false sense of Security.

Deadly Force on the Border?

"U.S. Border Patrol will put in place new policies to restrict the use of force by agents. The new rules come amid the revelation that illegal immigrants are entering the U.S. at record rates and overwhelming federal resources." 

Should we Emulate the East German Border Guards?  However keep our weapons turned out?  Or should we do something else?

I don't have the answer, however our border is under attack, and our defenders of the border are being overwhelmed and under supported.

Something needs to change.

Smartphone users

Over at cracked there is an article you need to check out.


5 Terrifying Smartphone Hacks You Won't Believe Are Possible

Wounded Marine Hero treated like a Terrorist by TSA and California Security

TSA agents allow Muslims in burqas to sail through security, but harass a wounded Marine war veteran

Some people need to be FIRED.  There is NO reason for that type of security screening for one of our Wounded Heros.

Did he have his Military ID?  Did he have his regular State Issued ID?  Then why is he getting the FIFTH Degree in security screening?  Don't those idiots have someone in a Burka to check out?

State Department told Benghazi Consulate "Don't ask for more security"

"WOOD: We knew that was coming through the cables and the draft cables that were going back and forth. The requests were being modified to say ‘don’t even request for D.O.D. support’.


ATTKISSON: So State Dept. was telling the folks on the ground in Libya ‘don’t continue to ask for this help’?


WOOD: Correct."

The career bureaucrats in the State Department and everywhere else in the US Government NEED TO GO.  They need to be relieved of their posts and taken out of the any position where they might influence ANY US Government foriegn or domestic policy.

There are several Science Fiction Authors who have written about a future where the elected officials are nothing but a rubber stamp for the unelected unaccountable bureaucrats.

They ALL NEED TO GO

Before they destroy the remains of this nation in their own quest for authority and influence.

There's an APP for that

Actually there are two of them.  And neither is good.

Borepatch has the skinny:

"Romney app more obnoxious than Obama app

 Riddle me this, GOPman: why does Romney's app need to turn on your camera (CAMERA) or microphone (RECORD_AUDIO)?  Riddle me this, Obamabot: why does your app grab contacts (READ_CONTACTS) or your GPS location (ACCESS_*_LOCATION)?"