Posts Tagged ‘Big Brother’

«nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.» (Amendment #5 of the US Constitution)



The US Constitution is supposed to be the highest law of the land. Blogs are considered personal property, and personal property cannot be taken under the Constitution without due process of law. This does not mean a judicial order. This does not mean «except when the government grows weary of public dissent to its criminal policies». This means that property rights are held sacred by the highest law of our land. Due process means the right to be heard in front of a jury of your peers, in a very public trial.

Which is why this latest «jack-booted thug-like» action is intolerable and grounds for the biggest public outcry in our Nations History.

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Inside the control room at a US nuclear power station. US security chiefs fear key infrastructure could be at risk from cyber-attack

Inside the control room

The US plans to install a Big Brother-style monitoring system on the computer systems of private companies and government agencies to prevent cyber-attacks from abroad.

The program, named Perfect Citizen, will rely on sensors that will be deployed in networks running critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants.

It will be able to detect any attempt by foreign saboteurs to launch a cyber-attack .

But privacy campaigners have reacted furiously, saying that ‘mission creep’ will make it easy for security forces to effectively spy on normal citizens.

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