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Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Estimates of the current size of the body of federal criminal law vary. It has been reported that the Congressional Research Service cannot even count the current number of federal crimes. These laws are scattered in over 50 titles of the United States Code, encompassing roughly 27,000 pages. Worse yet, the statutory code sections often incorporate, by reference, the provisions and sanctions of administrative regulations promulgated by various regulatory agencies under congressional authorization. Estimates of how many such regulations exist are even less well settled, but the ABA thinks there are ”nearly 10,000.”
If the federal government can’t even count how many laws there are, what chance does an individual have of being certain that they are not acting in violation of one of them?
Privacy is part of liberty. You should have the right to live without anyone looking into everything you do, unless your actions start to threaten others. This can’t be a made up probable cause, it has to be action that would cause a reasonable person/authority concern.
Franklin said, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Reblogged from very little thought
Robert Reich: The Two Centers of Unaccountable Power in America, and Their Consequences
There are two great centers of unaccountable power in the American political-economic system today — places where decisions that significantly affect large numbers of Americans are made in secret, and are unchecked either by effective democratic oversight or by market competition.
One goes by the…
Reblogged from Robert Reich
If the government is doing nothing wrong, it has nothing to fear.
Assange, Manning, Snowden - true heroes.
What’s good for the goose, is good for… No, that’s not right.
Reblogged from Jack Dogstar
Further Exploration of the Middle D
Friend of mine called and wanted to fish this weekend so I took him to the spot I fished a week ago on the middle Deschutes. Thought the Salmonflies would be in full swing and tied a few more patterns to tempt the fish. Big flies were still around, and Golden Stones were also present, but the fish were over them. Didn’t even get refusals.
Hiked downstream of where I’d fished last week and found a huge riffle and started catching fish on nymphs and dry flies. Smaller fish, mostly, but there were some bigger ones in there that I didn’t land. Tough nymphing unless you like undoing snags on the gritty boulders, branches, grass and even a sock!
Took a few more photos, had fun, and am only about 25% as sore as last Monday.
Further Exploration of the Middle Deschutes.
Via roots action
Hope & change gone wrong!
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Professional advertising photographer based in Portland Oregon, Juan Calvillo shoots people, lifestyle, product, still life, interiors, architectural and stock photography. In studio or on location, very few commercial photographers create photographs that captivate viewers and bring your brand to life so forcefully.
