Let me interject in *&-*marked *BOLD ITALICS* lines into the texts of the posts below John M
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2013, at 21:03, meekerdb wrote: > > There's still a free version of PGP available as GnuGP. But people > generally don't want the inconvenience of dealing with encryption. > > On 6/12/2013 3:16 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > > How to protect your computer from spying by the IRS and Eric H. Holder, > Jr. > > These days it seems that you need to protect yourself from more than > commercial vendors, namely spying by the IRS and Eric H. Holder, Jr. > Snowden, the man who recently exposed the NSA activities, says he can > from his desktop listen to your telephone and read your email. > > > But it would have been illegal for him to do so. People are always able > to do illegal things. The question is what preventive measures should be > taken. Snowden was an IT tech who was just supposed to keep the system > running, so of course he had the ability to tap data flows. But there > should have been some administrative oversight to keep him from doing that > beyond what was necessary for his work (and maybe there was). > > The question is should it be legal for the government to collect this > data. The Supreme Court has said it's Constitutional and polls say it's > favor 62% to 34% by the public, so... > > *&- The overall collection of DATA is a hoax: only the addresses are > collected without court order. The Hoopla is only political. The "majority" > in the poll voted for security: to eliminate potential violent acts by > 'enemies'. The Copnstitution is a 300yo thinking in medieval terms, usable > for human principles, not the FACTS in our 21st c. life. I am a sharp > critique of the government(s), in this case they work in our behalf.* > > The US government is doing the dictator trick (NDAA 12, NDAA 13). Those > are not just non-constitutional they are anti-constitutional. > > The human rights applies to all humans, or they lost their meaning. > > The private life has to be respected for all humans. > > It seems clear to me that prohibition has succeeded in putting bandits > into power, which makes legal or illegal things only for special interest. > > Health should be separated from the state, like religion. Free competition > has to be allowed among all art of helping others, and nobody can pretend > for you what is good to you. > *&- Except if YOU require the community to PAY for the curing of YOUR sicknesses (maybe caused by YOUR own negligence) e.g. emphysema etc. by smoking. * > > Some people do money on fears and catastrophes. The war on drug is a > golden mine for bandits and terrorists. > After the NDAA 12 I am afraid that the war on terror begins to look to me > suspiciously like the war on drug. > > The notion legal/illegal must be relativized when the evidences add that > the government don't play with the rules. > *&- There is no "WAR ON TERROR" - nor ON DRUGS. There are 'efforts' and 'lies'. Against CERTAIN aspects. * *Others are accepted as 'money making' endeavours. The governments play by their own rules, not with rules of anybody else. Governments ar exploitative ensembles. * > > Bruno > *&- John M* > > > > > > > Brent > > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
