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Looks like Al qeada Won.
May. 20th, 2005 11:04 amThe house passed the Real ID bill through the house, and the President has vowed to sign it.
Now, every action you make with your ID in your pocket can be traced. Not by presenting the card, but just by its possession on or near your body. The fear for security is gotten to the point where life will be permanently changed, probably for all time, in the United States. Say goodbye to your driver's license, as it will soon be replaced with the national "papers", just like in Germany a mere sixty five years ago. The state is controlling the people, not the other way around, and in such a system, privacy is against the needs of the state. With this legislation, the tone of the interaction between the state and the people who supposedly control it has shifted.
Of course, there is no money being provided to implement this. But the current administration is prone to that anyway. And there is little hope for any change, as the Democratic party is barely functional on the national level, and totally out of the game in several southern states. Unless something drastic changes, we'll be down to a single party system soon, and since that party's former plank of fiscal responsibility is apparently so far out the window that it's gone into another building and hidden in a closet, the Republicans only have the Religious Wrong as their guiding principle.
And the most insidious part of this little rider is the prohibition against judicial review of Homeland Securitat, which gives the branch the impunity to act seen previously by the Gestapo and KGB to investigate and administrate with an utter lack of oversight.
So, we have a situation where the government is going to drain state resources even further without any concern for the hardships incurred while cranking down the noose on the citezenry to avoid "Terrorists" and establish security. Robert Anton Wilson spoke over thirty years ago on the cycle of security, and we're seeing it in action. in a very clear illustration, with the potential of no recourse very soon by our failing political process.
Happy fucking Friday. We have lost the war on terrorism. It was like a game of Chicken, and we blinked first. America has been destroyed, and in it place, we will live in fear with an omnipresent state watching our every move. We can strut around with our technologically superior military all wa want in foreign soil, but our freedom at home will now be controlled and curtailed by the fearful and security minded. Hear that hum? It's the founding fathers turning over in their graves so fast they could be hooked to motors and used to power detroit.
I believe that we live in he end of their dream.Let the nightmare begin.
Now, every action you make with your ID in your pocket can be traced. Not by presenting the card, but just by its possession on or near your body. The fear for security is gotten to the point where life will be permanently changed, probably for all time, in the United States. Say goodbye to your driver's license, as it will soon be replaced with the national "papers", just like in Germany a mere sixty five years ago. The state is controlling the people, not the other way around, and in such a system, privacy is against the needs of the state. With this legislation, the tone of the interaction between the state and the people who supposedly control it has shifted.
Of course, there is no money being provided to implement this. But the current administration is prone to that anyway. And there is little hope for any change, as the Democratic party is barely functional on the national level, and totally out of the game in several southern states. Unless something drastic changes, we'll be down to a single party system soon, and since that party's former plank of fiscal responsibility is apparently so far out the window that it's gone into another building and hidden in a closet, the Republicans only have the Religious Wrong as their guiding principle.
And the most insidious part of this little rider is the prohibition against judicial review of Homeland Securitat, which gives the branch the impunity to act seen previously by the Gestapo and KGB to investigate and administrate with an utter lack of oversight.
So, we have a situation where the government is going to drain state resources even further without any concern for the hardships incurred while cranking down the noose on the citezenry to avoid "Terrorists" and establish security. Robert Anton Wilson spoke over thirty years ago on the cycle of security, and we're seeing it in action. in a very clear illustration, with the potential of no recourse very soon by our failing political process.
Happy fucking Friday. We have lost the war on terrorism. It was like a game of Chicken, and we blinked first. America has been destroyed, and in it place, we will live in fear with an omnipresent state watching our every move. We can strut around with our technologically superior military all wa want in foreign soil, but our freedom at home will now be controlled and curtailed by the fearful and security minded. Hear that hum? It's the founding fathers turning over in their graves so fast they could be hooked to motors and used to power detroit.
I believe that we live in he end of their dream.Let the nightmare begin.
