Republican Party embraces Big Brother

Big Brother Imperialist Government.
50,000 Americans died or were wounded fighting for our freedom.  Our Federalist
Founding Fathers gave us a Bill of Rights and a Constitution.  The so-called "leaders"
of America today could not give a damn about our hard won freedoms.

Republicans vote to abolish the 4th Amendment of the Bill of Rights


Just when I thing I cannot get more angry, the professional political liars in the Beltway lash out yet again.

Republican political trash, masquerading as patriotic Congressmen, voted to abolish the 4th Amendment to the Bill of Rights that requires the government to get a search warrant from an independent court in order to search through your private papers and information. 

Instead the GOP voted to FORCE private companies to collect that information for the government . . . . just in case it is needed . . . . it is for your own good.

Our Federalist Founding Fathers are once again rolling over in their graves.

Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers' activities for one year--in case police want to review them in the future--under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today.

The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology initiative after last fall's elections, and the Justice Department officials who have quietly lobbied for the sweeping new requirements, a development first reported by CNET.

A last-minute rewrite of the bill expands the information that commercial Internet providers are required to store to include customers' names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and temporarily-assigned IP addresses, some committee members suggested. By a 7-16 vote, the panel rejected an amendment that would have clarified that only IP addresses must be stored.


Nathan Hale, hanged by Redcoated Imperialists.
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Today the Republicans spit on the Bill of Rights and danced
on Nathan Hale's grave.


It represents "a data bank of every digital act by every American" that would "let us find out where every single American visited Web sites," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, who led Democratic opposition to the bill.

To make it politically difficult to oppose, proponents of the data retention requirements dubbed the bill the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, (HR 1981) even though the mandatory logs would be accessible to police investigating any crime and perhaps attorneys litigating civil disputes in divorce, insurance fraud, and other cases as well.

"The bill is mislabeled," said Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the senior Democrat on the panel. "This is not protecting children from Internet pornography. It's creating a database for everybody in this country for a lot of other purposes."

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BIG BROTHER:   The UK town where EVERY car is tracked by the police

"It's very sinister and quite creepy."

A sleepy Home Counties market town has become the first in Britain to have every car passing through it tracked by police cameras.

Royston, in Hertfordshire, has had a set of police cameras installed on every road leading in and out of it, recording the numberplate of every vehicle that passes them.

The automatic number-plate recognition system will check the plates against a variety of databases, studying them for links to crimes, and insurance and tax records, and alerting police accordingly.

There were just seven incidents of vehicle crime in the town last month, and residents believe the unmarked cameras are an invasion of their privacy.

The system, due to be switched on in the next few days, also allows police to compile 'hotlists' of vehicles that they are interested in and which will be flagged up when the ANPR system.

 Details of the cars movements will stay on police records for two years, or five if the car is connected to a crime, the Guardian reported.

 The system, which is operated regionally, has sparked fears that the data could be abused and has led to claims that it is a big brother network that the public are completely oblivious of.

Guy Herbert, general secretary from NO2ID, which campaigns against databases storing the public's details, said: 'It's very sinister and quite creepy.

'They can approach anyone they like, but there's no legal basis for them doing so.

'There's no way to regulate how they use ANPR, they are the authority on it and they have their own rules.
'So there's no way to protect people's privacy.'

Mr Herbert also takes issue with the fact that the cameras are not advertised to the motorist, so many are unaware they have even been caught on the camera.     (UK Mail)

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