Re: [TSCM-L] {1932} Re: [Fwd: Air rights]

From: kondrak <kon..._at_phreaker.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:03:07 -0400

TSCM/SO Group wrote:
>
>
> Yes and Glugle will sell this service for the agencies.
>
> It will be called Glugle Earth Dark Version for Law Enforcement/Spyshops
>
> You will need a name and password to access the front end,it comes with
> a CD that will be pre packaged in a Black Pelican Case,the new feature
> will include driving directions to every police dept in the US ,
>
> Federal Funding will cover the cost of the package after initial testing.
>
>
>
> I love it when crap like this surfaces, the companies that mfg aluminum
> foil will see an increase in their stock as sales of foil for headwear
> increases................
>
>
>
> Sorry,I couldn't resist <g>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Mitch Davis
> TSCM/Special Operations Group
> 20 Music Square West,Suite 208
> Nashville , TN 37203 USA
> 615 251 0441
> Fax 615 523 0300
> mit..._at_tscmusa.com
> www.tscmusa.com <http://www.tscmusa.com>
>
> / " // maintaining a higher degree of excellence" //
> / ******************************
> Tools for investigators at www.covertworx.com <http://www.covertworx.com/>
>
> * From: * TSCM-..._at_googlegroups.com [mailto:
> TSCM-..._at_googlegroups.com ] *On Behalf Of *kondrak
> *Sent:* Monday, September 03, 2007 2:54 AM
> *To:* TSCM-..._at_googlegroups.com
> *Subject:* [TSCM-L] {1922} [Fwd: Air rights]
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/story/676165.html
>
>
> * Air rights *
>
>
> * In the latest government surveillance twist, spy satellites will
> be used for domestic law enforcement. Is this still America ? *
>
>
>
> Most Americans have accepted the Bush administration's view that after
> 9/11 it's a new and more restrictive world out there. Additional
> security procedures at airports, less privacy for phone calls -- we go
> along with all sorts of measures aimed at thwarting another terror attack.
>
> Is the sky the limit?
>
> A new program ordered up by Michael McConnell, director of National
> Intelligence, will give police and others access to some information
> from the spy satellites that pass above the U.S. along their paths over
> the globe. The images and data will be employed initially for border
> security and emergency preparedness; law enforcement uses ("covering
> both criminal and civil law," according to The Wall Street Journal,
> which broke the story) are to follow. These spy satellites are able to
> "see" through cloud cover and even obtain data from inside buildings and
> bunkers.
>
> They can't, we're assured, tell whether that gent in the street needs a
> haircut. Not yet, anyway.
>
> Up to now, with a few exceptions for scientific purposes, spy satellites
> have been used for spying on bad actors abroad. Now they'll focus on us
> too.
>
> It's hard to swallow, if you think freedom means more than national
> independence. But it fits a pattern that's not easy to break.
>
> * Keeping close tabs *
>
> Americans' expectations of personal privacy have been pushed and prodded
> plenty in recent years, until we hardly know what rights we have. We're
> videotaped on the streets, radar-timed on the roads, monitored in our
> calls to companies, told to wear security badges and asked for a phone
> number even when we pay cash. We're followed by "cookies" in our
> wanderings around the Web, and when we e-mail or call someone abroad,
> our words may be intercepted by the government and sorted through by a
> supercomputer for a revealing word.
>
> Not to mention the trade-offs we make oh-so voluntarily as we trade
> privacy for convenience -- in the supermarket checkout lane (store cards
> track personal purchases); in a turnpike's electronic transponder lane
> (E-ZPass records are being used in divorce cases); and when we sign up
> for car-tracking services such as OnStar that know if we made the right
> turn back there.
>
> Now the Feds and local law enforcement will also be looking in on
> America from low-Earth orbit. As for civil libertarians' concerns,
> Homeland Security says it will have its lawyers review law enforcement
> agencies' requests for satellite data before granting them. Does that
> include review by a court too? The stories are silent.
>
> And even with a nod to civil liberties, the bottom line is that police
> are winning access to satellites run by the defense and intelligence
> establishments, satellites intended for quite different purposes than
> domestic law enforcement ("criminal and civil").
>
> * When the eyes have it *
>
> At times in our past we've allowed the authorities to curtail liberty at
> home. It's always been justified on the basis of national security, and
> always will be. Looking back -- at the Alien and Sedition Acts of the
> early 1800s and the internments of World War II, for example -- these
> have not been proud moments. Americans, however, have always pulled back
> from the brink, back toward liberty.
>
> Now the matter of the spy satellites offers another chance. This program
> blurs too many civilian-military lines, and sets precedents for ever
> more acute technological intrusions. Implicitly, it gives officials
> sweeping new powers (think of life under the satellite "eyes" of some
> future president you don't think much of). It unbalances the equation
> between security and liberty. It goes too far.
>
> Are we still Americans that the men who drafted and ratified the Bill of
> Rights would recognize? Pushed, prodded and spied on from space, we have
> to wonder.
>
>
>
> >
>
Received on Sat Mar 02 2024 - 00:57:28 CST