Real police state or really paranoid?

A post at one of my daily visit sites caught my eye, labeled AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates 'Infrastructure for a Police State'. Reading further, it caught and peaked my attention and curiosity. A police state? The poster, Mark Klein is a retired AT&T engineer who came out in the open with the technical documents at the heart of the anti-wiretapping case against AT&T is very upset at the Senate's vote to hold a vote on a bill intended to put an end to that lawsuit and more than 30 others as well.

Now that might not sound too ominous, but stop and think about this...what would stop the government from choosing your family members as a target to start using wire taps on their phones or use specialized software installed without their knowing (all thanks to Microsoft's remote desktop app, or any number of remote desktop apps used by ISPs to help customers who aren't computer savvy) to monitor their computer activity etc., because let's say that family member(s) might have raised red flags at homeland security because they felt those member(s) might be transferring money to people outside the U.S. to fund terrorists activities even though those family members were actually helping out a college going son/daughter who was travelling through Europe or wherever, to make sure that person has enough money to live on and so forth. Or maybe the flags were raised because HS felt that those family members were suspect because those members were avid firearms collectors and have a large collection of various vintage/newer guns and what-not, and therefor are now being looked at as arms suppliers to some terrorist cell here in the U.S. or abroad.

Old arguments, I know, but drives the point home. And one important point is...why should any United States citizen feel the need to slowly sacrifice our constitutional rights in order to ensure a greater degree of protection by the U.S. government from all those really bad people in the world who want to see us all dead because those bad people think we have too much freedom? Like the old saying goes, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." So let's not forget all those promises made by a distinct, power consumed dictator from the early 20th century in nazi germany. His promises were to ensure greater freedoms, better way of life and so on. But it all came at a terrible price.

Here's a couple of excerpts from the post at Wired...
The vote by Congress effectively gives retroactive immunity to the telecom companies and endorses an all-powerful president. It’s a Congressional coup against the Constitution.

The Democratic leadership is touting the deal as a "compromise," but in fact they have endorsed the infamous Nuremberg defense: "Just following orders." The judge can only check their paperwork. This cynical deal is a Democratic exercise in deceit and cowardice.

You can read it in it's entiraty at the Wired site.

And this should give you a warm fuzzy feeling all over: Klein saw a network monitoring room being built in AT&T's internet switching center that only NSA-approved techs had access to. He squirreled away documents and then presented them to the press and the Electronic Frontier Foundation after news of the government's warrantless wiretapping program broke.

Make no mistakes about it, the technology is available to monitor your every move in ways that'll give you cold sweats. Just Google R.F.I.D. for example...a cool technology, but the uses can be pretty freightning! Take a look at all of the states and countries that have cameras atop light poles etc., to make sure that "your safety" is always the top concern of the respective law enforcement agancies of those country and states where all the cameras can be found.

Then again, if you're still sceptical, go and Google the terms "Police state, new world order" and related search terms. Sure there's alot of bunk and junk that you'll find, but there's also credible information you'll find as well. But again, in another year or two when you suddenly relise that more than half of your constitutional rights have been stripped away and you find yourself in a situation where you desperatly need to use those rights, and those rights are no longer available to you, you will know without a doubt that this country is in trouble!