US Spying On Its Citizens 2213

Are you a paid propagandist, or just an idiot? Scroll down to receive your education.

I left all of your idiotic spew just to prove that you are clueless (or willfully ignorant - take your pick.) No wonder Bush got a second turn at destroying America: His minions have no idea what is happening to them.

Do you know what data mining is? Do you realize how easy it is to log website hits, downloads, p2p, email and chat conversations at your ISP's server? Do you know the provisions granted by USA PATRIOT for Internet spying? In essence, there are no longer any limits to Internet spying. Any ISP can be tapped at any time without a warrant.

There's no need for secret cameras and "bug" microphones. The textual information being sent through unsecured and unencrypted channels over the Internet is easily sniffed, logged, archived, text analyzed and data mined, possibly in real time. Under the provisions of USA PATRIOT, a federal agent can walk into an ISP's offices, flash their FBI badge, and demand that the ISP let them log everything going into or out of the ISP's servers. The ISP has no right to refuse. The agents do not need to produce a warrant. The ISP must comply fully, and cannot tell anyone about it, under pain of imprisonment. It is impossible to know how many servers are being logged and analyzed, since that information is now a matter of national security under USA PATRIOT.

As a result of this unlimited Internet spying, every email you write, every website you visit, every pr0n image that you receive via email spam, every IM message you write could be logged right now, and may have been for years. There's no way for you to tell, so you must buttume that you are being tracked, as are millions of Americans.

Sounds crazy, right? Black helicopters and tinfoil hats? 1984? Wrong, Bucko. This is Bush's police state. Are you feeling safe and secure yet? Yeah, I thought so.

Let freedom ring