tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post116258675243760677..comments2024-03-28T14:32:19.334+00:00Comments on Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: A Great DividePastoriushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1162663236498566262006-11-04T18:00:00.000+00:002006-11-04T18:00:00.000+00:00I have no Republican friends, and, going by the pr...I have no Republican friends, and, going by the progress of this exchange, I judge that I am the brighter of the two of us. I'm a radical for capitalism, not some crypto-socialist posing as a Republican. Haven't you noticed that the Republicans have adopted the whole socialist manifesto? Please, don't add insult to injury by associating me with clueless traitors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1162630383652487052006-11-04T08:53:00.000+00:002006-11-04T08:53:00.000+00:00According to Lar, the federal government has the f...According to Lar, the federal government has the freedom to view electronic transmition (patriot act) and it is capable of monitoring cell phone discussions without the need of a court order, and I have seen this sent out to other cell phone providors, that is fact.<BR/><BR/>If you want to believe that the US does not engage in the imprisionment of individuals, and link that only to China, you are as dim as the rest of your republican friends.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1162608835192681962006-11-04T02:53:00.000+00:002006-11-04T02:53:00.000+00:00Dear Anonymous: All I can say is that you're naiv...Dear Anonymous: <BR/><BR/>All I can say is that you're naive if you think the feds aren't monitoring email, or that one wouldn't be investigated if one sent a "threatening" email to some government official. Even if one sent what you call a "well reasoned" criticism of, say, Condi's policies, it would be enough to put one on a watch list of some kind, depending on the intelligence of the watcher and what side of the bed he got up on that morning. Friends of mine in the intelligence community assure me of that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19209018.post-1162602451391546582006-11-04T01:07:00.000+00:002006-11-04T01:07:00.000+00:00"We are approaching that level of censorship; that..."We are approaching that level of censorship; that is, some officials and bureaucrats have proposed that the government have the power to make such an edict. Neither party, however, has the brazenness yet to move in that direction; they know they would not yet get away with it. Rand could not have predicted it, of course, but the Internet, which did not exist in 1962, is certainly scrutinized by the CIA, NSA and other federal agencies, not exclusively on the track of Islamist terrorists residing in this country.<BR/><BR/>Certainly if one sent an email letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calling her (justifiably) delusional, anti-Semitic, and an appeasing enabler of Islamic terrorism, one could expect a knock on one’s door, or at least strange things begin to happen to one’s bank account or employment status. One cannot count on the demonstrable incompetence of the “security” agencies charged with defending this country, and be certain that nothing would happen."<BR/><BR/>This is utter paranoid nonsense. That the New York Times routinely publishes classified information and doesn't see any of its editors brought up on treason charges is reason enough to discount this. That 9/11 Truthers routinely get away with saying Bush ordered the deaths of thousands of Americans and see no consequences for this slander further disproves this. Typical Randian nutters.<BR/><BR/>The only form of censorship in this country is coming from the MSM, not from the government. Bloggers don't have hits put on them here like they do in Russia, or get shipped to re-education centers like they do in China.<BR/><BR/>As for Condi, people have pretty much called her all sorts of names (deserved, no doubt), and I haven't heard that they're voices are being stifled. If someone sent an email directly to her, sure, I'd expect, depending on the tone and contents of the letter, they might get a visit from the Secret Service. Then again, a well reasoned email which disagreed with her, I'm pretty sure she's received, and not done a thing about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com