Are you geeky enough to be on the NSA's "Extremist" list?

[dequire]

...Many people here and in any Linux forum probably are.

Are you a Linux Journal reader or use software such as Tor and Tails Linux? If so, you've probably been flagged as an "extremist" by the NSA. Leaked documents related to the XKeyscore snooping program reveal that the agency is targeting anyone who is interested in online privacy, specifically those who use the aforementioned software and visit the Linux user community website.*

So anyone concerned about "privacy" for things such as online banking or using Tor to gain access to a streaming feed that is stupidly "geo-blocked" in their country would be considered an "extremest". So are you?

*NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as "extremists"

[GreyGeek]

...Many people here and in any Linux forum probably are.



So anyone concerned about "privacy" for things such as online banking or using Tor to gain access to a streaming feed that is stupidly "geo-blocked" in their country would be considered an "extremest". So are you?

*NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as "extremists"

NSA stated

Meanwhile, reacting to the new revelations, the NSA released an official statement saying, "In carrying out its mission, NSA collects only what it is authorized by law to collect for valid foreign intelligence purposes". The statement also said that tools like XKeyscore "have stringent oversight and compliance mechanisms built in at several levels".

Uh huh. I'm sure. Just like Hillary kept "stringent oversight" of her email servers and "complied with all State Department security directives". Oh well, the people will get what they vote for, in spades.

[dequire]

In deed we do apparently get the government we deserve. Apparently we've been asleep at the wheel a while now. I blame reality TV shows and extreme voter apathy.

[Qqmike]

Apathy is the killer. I have many intellectual friends who enjoy talking: whining, complaining, philosophizing, and --Oh Gawd--analyzing the sh*t out of every existential issue you can imaging plus a few issues you never imagined. But no interest/motivation to sign a petition, call their Congressperson, make a donation to some good cause, or take any action whatsoever. Petitions, for example, do work in many ways, at many levels to get things going, or to bring focus to an issue. But, "no, nothing matters, nothing works, anyway, so why try." Many people don't even want to know what's going on, as it may be so depressing and they wish not to be burdened by more bad news or by things they don't feel they can affect or control. Meanwhile, the bad guys, creeps, criminals, and sleazy (sociopathic) politicians move forward with their agendas.

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

[mbohets]

In the same wording as Trump defining Brussels as a hellhole because of the terrorist attacks,
I think this definition fits more on the US, where government officials kill black people,
security services classify users of certain services and linux distro's as extremists and massively listen to telephone and datacommunications
and the law allows everyone to buy assault weapons.

[Snowhog]

...and the law allows everyone to buy assault weapons.

No, that isn't true. An 'assault weapon' is one designed for and used by the Military and specilized law enforcement personel. An 'assualt weapon' is capable of full-automatic fire via a selector switch (Safe, Semi, Full). These weapons are illegal for sale to the public at large. A Colt AR-15 'rifle', which is a legal firearm for sale to civilians, while it looks like the Military M-16 'assualt rifle', isn't the same thing. The former is a semi-automatic fire rifle; you have to pull and release the trigger for each round to be fired; the latter is a full-automatic capable rifle, which, when switched to full-auto mode, allows continuous firing with a single trigger pull (squeezing and holding the trigger). Firing stops when the trigger is released or the magazine is empty.

[GreyGeek]

In the same wording as Trump defining Brussels as a hellhole because of the terrorist attacks,
I think this definition fits more on the US, where government officials kill black people,
security services classify users of certain services and linux distro's as extremists and massively listen to telephone and datacommunications
and the law allows everyone to buy assault weapons.

Except for FEMA and the TSA most police in America are very civil and very aware of civil rights of ALL citizens. More on that later.

In the United State for the last 200+ years we've been governed by the Rule of Law under the Constitution, the foundation of which was established in the Declaration of Independence from England:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The law in the US doesn't "allow" the people to own firearms, the Constitution guarantees it. The Constitution reiterates the belief of the Founding Fathers that equality of rights is an entitlement from God. Those beliefs were encoded in the Bill Of Rights which, without the 2nd Amendment to back them up, aren't worth the paper they are written on. It is only because of the apathy mentioned by others in this thread that people elected to office lied when they took their oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution from all enemies, both foreign and domestic, without reservations or purposes of evasion". I took that oath when I became a town marshal. Every elected official from the President on down to local enforcement and members of governing bodies who grant or hold powers of arrest have to take that oath.

Government officials don't kill Black people. So far, in 2016, there have been 571 people who lost their lives while in police contact or custody. Of those, 138 were Black and 281 were White. About 15% of the US population is Black so if the deaths were random only 86 would have died. The difference, 52, doesn't mean that the police around the country have instituted a wholesale slaughter of Blacks, as the media and BLM is want to portray.

The FBI Expanded Homicide Data for 2013 shows that there were 14,132 murders in the US in 2013. Of those, Whites committed 4,396 and Blacks committed 5,375. Were murders random based on population only one would expect that Blacks should account for only 2,120 murders. They committed more than twice as many. Whites are 67% of the population. Based on randomness they should have murdered 9,468 of the total of 14,132 murders, but they committed only about half that expected number.

For all crimes reported by the FBI in 2013 there were 9,014,635. Of those 6,214,192 (68.9%) were by Whites, 2,549,655 (28.3%) were by Blacks. The White percentage is about equal to their population percentages, the Black percentage is twice their population percentage. The police will come in contact with Black offenders more than twice what they should if contact were merely based on population percentages, which assumes that all races have an equal propensity to commit crimes. Asians, on the other hand, make up 5.3% of the US population but contribute only 1.2% to the crime statistic.

On the other hand, the FBI reports that the rate of officer assaults in 2013 was 9.3 per 100 sworn officers, or a total of 49,851, with 29.2% sustaining injuries and 27 killed, which is half of the number of "excess" Blacks killed during police contact or custody.

The media's reporting has done much to whip up frenzy among Blacks, and its for a political purpose, IMO. Consider that the 12 biggest metropolitan centers which are the centers of BLM protests, riots, burnings and civil disobedience are ALL controlled by Democrat politicians, and half have been under Democrat control for decades. Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, etc... Why is there still "racism and injustice", as the BLM claims, in those cities if Democrats are in control?

IF America is as racist as the BLM, the media, and other Left Wing extremists groups claim then how did Obama get elected, TWICE, with less than 15% of the population being Black?

MOST, IF NOT ALL, of the attacks against American's Constitutional Rights, and the Constitution itself, comes from the Left: Democrats, RINOs and other Marxist extremists. Who is calling the Constitution "that little book" and claiming it is outmoded and outdated? Who are proposing and voting for laws that infringe the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 8th, and other parts of the Bill Of Rights? You thought that GW Bush was a "conservative" but during his 8 year presidency the NSA and CIA became abusive and FEMA was created. You would think that a Democrat president would reverse those infringements, but Obama strengthened them. I've been stating for years that there isn't a dimes worth of difference between the Republican and Democrat leadership, just like there isn't a dimes worth of difference between FoxNews, which the Left often ridicules by calling it FauxNews, and the other major media: CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and PBS, which act and report as the propaganda arms of the Democrats. For example, Major Garrett, the CBS White House reporter, was at FoxNews for years. The Saturday Morning co-host bimbo on Fox switched to the same job on CNN. And it goes on and on. That's why I borrowed an old Soviet Union proverb that originated with the people There were two newspapers in the defunct USSR, Pravda (Truth) and Izvestia (News). The Russian people had a saying "There is no Izvestia in the truth and no Pravda in the News."

The FEMA restrictions enforced by the TSA at International Points of Entry (mainly air port terminals) place a 100 mile radius of restrictions on the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Amendments. This means that within 100 miles of the coast of surrounding ALL of America and the International airports within the country, full constitutional rights are suspended. The ACLU calls this area the "Constitution Free Zone". DuckDuckGo it. If you are stopped in these areas by TSA VIPR teams, or other LEO's, especially at "checkpoints", you do not have 4th Amendment rights to your person or property. If you try to exercise your 1A rights and complain about the unconstitutional treatment you are being subjected to you are charge with "resisting" and are immediately yanked out of your car, taken down to the ground and brutalized. Many VIPR checkpoints are protected by positioned snipers and cobra gunships overhead, and a SWAT team is in reserve. There are YouTube videos of some of these stops. "Where did you come from? Where are you going? Where do you work? Show us your papers!" The dogs sniff your car and if you've been belligerent or protesting the illegal stop the dog makes a drug "hit" and "justification for a search" is automatic. The Gestapo would be proud.

My prediction about America's future is grim. America is not even half as free now was it was when I was a teenager, 60 years ago. When the 2nd Amendment is repealed (to protect the children, of course) and current PC speech limits applied socially (Facebook and Google are leading the charge, which is why I canceled my Google account) under the rubric of "hate speech", become enacted as law, canceling all five clauses of the 1st Amendment, America will become like Venezuela. When the other people's money runs out and they realize that food doesn't actually grow on grocery market shelves they might wake up, but it won't matter. 13603.

[MoonRise]

I've been stating for years that there isn't a dimes worth of difference between the Republican and Democrat leadership

That is the truth. I've been saying they are all the same. They just hide it behind different platforms but the goal is absolutely the same.