How about adding the power of 10 to the number and it will be more like the actual number!!

Wow! Only 400,000? Considering the fact that they must do millions of illegal wiretapings, snooping, raids, etc. that is a considerable low number. Did they do their own inquiry/investigation and subsequent report like their Israeli friends from whom they seem to be learning so much?

BTW, they raided Georgia Tech in Atlanta Friday on an alleged Anonymous connection:

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/26655787/index.html

Out of these corporations, Google is the most notorious FBI dog. Not only do they roll over and give everything the FBI asks for but they have set up an entire department, headed by a ‘General Counsel” (a/k/a shyster lawyer), to actually canvas their data looking for suspicious information (they even follow their own definition of “suspicious information” which is for them to know and for everybody else to find out). When they find said information, they contact the FBI themselves and turn it over. The GC glows whenever he has to appear in court and testify on behalf of the FBI.

Coincidentally, I just found out that Google is doing business inside of Cuba. For some reason, they seem to have a beef with the Cuban government too. I couldn’t possibly phanthom why since Cuba is such a beacon of truth and democracy. ~sniker, sniker~

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tip of the iceberg. hardly ever hear about the FBI carnivore surveillance program any more, eh? or how it taps into the NSA echelon surveillance program… now old j. edgar hoover was an early nazi sympathizer and went on to become a criminal who constantly subverted the bill of rights and became notorious for his spying on powerful US citizens… he was a criminal at the head of a criminal organization. FBI as a massive criminal organization under DoJ? that’s US all over.

Freedom isn’t free; you have to buy it from Wall Street on the neverending installment plan

We have freedom of speech in America, as long as we remain silent.

If one exercises that right, then the permits will be denied. Next, the FBI will infiltrate and sabotage your activist or protest group.

Or appreciably worse, they will preemptively arrest all those who chose to exercise their “right” to freedom of speech.

How many were arrested prior to the repub-CON and dem conventions?

Over 900 arrest in Copenhagen at the World Climate Summit.

Over 1,000 arrested in Cairo at their pro-democracy protests the last several days.

Bradley Birkenfeld comes to America to turn in American tax evaders, and is promptly arrested by the Bush Administration, then tried and convicted and jailed by the Obama Administration.

Bradley Manning fufills his legal duty under the Uniform Code of Military Justice by exposing war criminals and is now being unlawfully detained in a Quantico brig, where he undergoes daily sleep deprivation by the Obama administration.

Thomas Drake, Sibel Edmonds have been continuously legally harrassed by the FBI and Justice Department. Under the Bush administration, whistleblowers in the intelligence community were silently convicted and jail, although some even more unfortunate ones were thrown off the tops of buildings to their deaths.

China, Russia, America, Egypt, Syria have shut down public Internet sites, in clear violation of international laws and have knowingly committed acts of international piracy.

Truly, any fool or idiot who dares declare America a “democracy” is in dire need of sanity testing.

One set of laws for “our” government another for the people, same as it ever was.

It’s not just “Big Brother”, its Corporate owned, Corporate controlled and Corporate legislated “Big Brother” that is the enemy…get the damned money (by “the people’s” force, if need be) out of our politics and politicians… reclaim “the people’s” Government to work for the people…thats what the original intent (of the Founding Fathers) and the Constitution was all about….

We increasing live in a police state here in the U.S. and our rights are violated by our government daily. Obama should use the same advice he’s giving to the Egyptian President and call for dismantling of the Patriot act and DHS.

Each time a request was made that violated the consttitution I think we should have jail time. Now think about this scary prospect? How many violations were there that we don’t know about because there was no request made? I wonder how many times they hooked themselves to my computer to check me out?

ha, and the right, tea baggers, are worried about socialism, social security, medicare. Can you spell the word f-a-s-c-i-s-m-o?

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.” -Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshall

Corporation are buying our government and allowed to write the (laws) legislation…returning the “favor”…not that tough to figure out whats going on…follow the money…which politician got the money, which Corporation “donated” to that politician, which bill is that politician “writing” or filibustering (what future Corporate stock shares or Exec. positions, have been offered)..and how will it benefit his/her (political) benefactor (Corporation)….in Corporate tax cuts, subsidies, outsourcing, labor disputes, over-seas secret bank accounts, profits, etc…..

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When a state lives in fear, as we do, there is no “law” per se. The law is what they say it is because all they are doing is “protecting millions of American lives from those scary Muslim terrorists”.

Is torture legal?
Is indefinite detention of mere suspects legal?
Is search and seizure without a warrant legal?
Is feeling the privates of your children, by strangers, legal?

The PATRIOT Act is nothing less than The US’s Surrender To Terrorism Act.

Low estimate – very low! These are the ones they’re willing to admit so the masses will think it’s all been taken care of by tomorrow at noon.

FBI = American Gestapo.

i’m sure this will result in one or two very strong slaps on their collective wrists with a powder-puff…

Truly, when the Nazis assumed power and installed the Third Reich one of their very first acts was to outlaw unions.

Sounds like the Obama-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Reagan Administration is right on track.

But seriously, how can anyone believe, after the release of the detailed $9 trillion payouts by the Federal Reserve to US banks and corporations, and foreign banks and corporations, and super wealthy individuals (many still don’t even know that), that the US gov’t is anything other than bankster-owned and controlled, as it has been for quite sometime?

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/48892
http://www.tucradio.org/new.html

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… and the home of the scared. Suggested ending to the national athem.

People tend to be ignorant of even of the most obvious because all that they know, all their “information” (actually disinformation and outright lies) comes from our corporate-owned, corporate advertisement dependent, for-profit news outlets.

Our government looks and sounds more and more like Germany in the 1920′s and 30′s each day.

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Goddamn, I knew it was bad but 40,000?!

Surely you mean ONLY 40,000?

My brother & I were talking about this at Christmas. The law breaking increases by the DOJ and the response from them continues to be, “Who me”????
I really don’t want to know what is next. Other than which cave I’ll be homesteading in.

Now you see why I was posting those links about gangstalking?

I was hoping that the stories about targeted individuals and gang stalking were exaggerated.

Now the next question to ask, how many sociopaths are there in the FBI?

Government + Companies + “Organizations” = Fascism

That’s what?
A dozen violations a day, every day for 9 and 1/2 years….
With no time off for Sundays, sick leave or good behavior.

Isn’t it time you Yanks took your country back?

Good grief. 40K?!? That is mind-boggling. Will anyone be held accountable? http://republicconstitution.blogspot.com/

who’s policing the police?

40,000..give or take 6 or 8 thousand……If this was the “NFL”, every news source would be on these numbers.

Yes, BMan. You know I knew about them. In fact I know someone right now who is being victimized.

Do you think it’s being reported will reduce it? I don’t, I think it will increase.

To what purpose? Will they be purged? Highly doubtful as they’re the new standard.

We might as well be Egypt. Except they’ve got the guts to do something about it.

If the FBI is staffed by sociopaths then is it better to know or not to know?

Generally speaking, it doesn’t seem to matter who is in the FBI because the laws remain the same anyway. The laws are designed to make every American who isn’t working with or for law enforcement into a criminal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJaDLhuNxi8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS-20GnIXik&feature=related

But if the intelligence agencies are above the law and above accountability, then anybody can be tortured for even the most asinine reasons.

“40,000 violations”

. . . picky, picky, picky

I am not arguing they should stay. I think the law is the law. But the govt is no longer lawful, doesn’t even pretend anymore. What chance is there they’ll go. I think this exposure is really meant to sedate the masses who if they even hear about it will assume it’s been taken care of.

Handouts to corporations are nothing new. In the 1800s the Fed surveyed all the Western lands. In order to “encourage” railroad buiding, they handed over every other “township” along the line (36 square miles) at no cost, including water and mineral rights. But this was the Gilded Age, right? The wealth discrepancy between the Elites (the top 1%) and the Commoners (The bottom 95%) is at the same level…perhaps worse. Given the chance I refer to these times as the New Gilded Age (yes not clever, neither is Gilded Age II). I think I read where actually the bottom 40% of the US population has no or negative wealth. We are in for “interesting” times ahead as these people retire…

I can tell you for sure the women’s movement was infiltrated. I was there. The original intent was quite different from the Steinem and the money that flowed in with her.

You know Bman I think some on this blog do the same – shepherd the ideas in a direction.
Haven’t seen it much lately, but late last year I did.

They act above the law because they can get away with it. The masses don’t care – it’s all football and porn when they’re not overwhelmed by just getting through a day in the life.

Yes, I fear you are correct and things will get worse. Maybe never get better, not for a very long time.

well no shit .Bush was in charge.we knew it all along.so much for the FBI.Idiots !

There’s a couple dozen other criminal houses too .
Status quo force control.

Thanks for the head-up on GooG. They can read my email for all I care, but to just hand it over to yet someone else, for whatever reason, just wasn’t part of the bargain – from my perspective. Shame on me.

So which dictatorship like organization does the FBI really belong to when it violates the Bill of Rights with these blatant disregards for it, aimed against we who were born in America, raised here and not meaning that any harm come to her(the government is a different matter as it wants to bring its violence on its own people for too many reasons).

I have to shake my head when I read what these people want to do to us.

So which dictatorship like organization does the FBI really belong to when it violates the Bill of Rights with these blatant disregards for it, aimed against we who were born in America, raised here and not meaning that any harm come to her(the government is a different matter as it wants to bring its violence on its own people for too many reasons).

I have to shake my head when I read what these people want to do to us.

If a NSL is not lawfully issued, does the institution providing the information have culpability for failure to due diligence by not ensuring the NSL is lawful?

If a NSL is not lawfully issued, does the institution providing the information have culpability for failure to due diligence by not ensuring the NSL is lawful?

Who polices the police? Nobody.
Whaddya got then? Police state.
When did this start? 90 years ago.
(Look up the FBI’s long history.)
When will it stop? Sadly, it won’t.
You’re in USA. Bend over & smile.

Who polices the police? Nobody.
Whaddya got then? Police state.
When did this start? 90 years ago.
(Look up the FBI’s long history.)
When will it stop? Sadly, it won’t.
You’re in USA. Bend over & smile.

Gee, I wonder what J Edgar would think of his law and order assholes now? Oh, that’s right, he was the Queen of Law and Order Assholes! Nothing he wouldn’t have done.

Gee, I wonder what J Edgar would think of his law and order assholes now? Oh, that’s right, he was the Queen of Law and Order Assholes! Nothing he wouldn’t have done.

Do you cuddle up with your gun at night Jaimie11?

Do you cuddle up with your gun at night Jaimie11?

You’re beginning to remind me of someone called by a number of different names.
Yes you must be old SocialismNOWorBust. Your foolishness is revealing you. See, your rigid ideology makes you an identifiable idiot.

If you imagine that is what adults do with guns at night you are a quite ill little bear.
See ya later Jason, when you’ve grown up some.

You’re beginning to remind me of someone called by a number of different names.
Yes you must be old SocialismNOWorBust. Your foolishness is revealing you. See, your rigid ideology makes you an identifiable idiot.

If you imagine that is what adults do with guns at night you are a quite ill little bear.
See ya later Jason, when you’ve grown up some.

bu$h turned the FBI into the KGB, and Obama lets it go on. Yet the Koch Brothers are meeting to plot impeaching him for being…bu$h’s third term. Imagine how they’ll rape the country when they get an actual reslugliCON back in the White House.

Civil War II is brewing. You’d better start getting ready for it yesterday.

bu$h turned the FBI into the KGB, and Obama lets it go on. Yet the Koch Brothers are meeting to plot impeaching him for being…bu$h’s third term. Imagine how they’ll rape the country when they get an actual reslugliCON back in the White House.

Civil War II is brewing. You’d better start getting ready for it yesterday.

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“What was most “startling” to the EFF about the use of security letters was the apparent willingness of companies and organizations to acquiesce to FBI demands, even when legal justifications for the request were absent.” (ie no oversight…)

Okay all you FBIers out there who want to make a REAL difference in the world. “Security letter” something on someone high up in Goldman Sachs, The Carlyle Group, or Blackstone Group, and then give it to Wikileaks! Let the world see what the puppet-masters do “for a living,” and watch some serious dominos of complete and total corruption and graft fall off a cliff!

“What was most “startling” to the EFF about the use of security letters was the apparent willingness of companies and organizations to acquiesce to FBI demands, even when legal justifications for the request were absent.” (ie no oversight…)

Okay all you FBIers out there who want to make a REAL difference in the world. “Security letter” something on someone high up in Goldman Sachs, The Carlyle Group, or Blackstone Group, and then give it to Wikileaks! Let the world see what the puppet-masters do “for a living,” and watch some serious dominos of complete and total corruption and graft fall off a cliff!

I posted this above, and your comment enforces it:

“What was most “startling” to the EFF about the use of security letters was the apparent willingness of companies and organizations to acquiesce to FBI demands, even when legal justifications for the request were absent.” (ie no oversight…)

Okay all you FBIers out there who want to make a REAL difference in the world. “Security letter” something on someone high up in Goldman Sachs, The Carlyle Group, or Blackstone Group, and then give it to Wikileaks! Let the world see what the puppet-masters do “for a living,” and watch some serious dominos of complete and total corruption and graft fall off a cliff!

I posted this above, and your comment enforces it:

“What was most “startling” to the EFF about the use of security letters was the apparent willingness of companies and organizations to acquiesce to FBI demands, even when legal justifications for the request were absent.” (ie no oversight…)

Okay all you FBIers out there who want to make a REAL difference in the world. “Security letter” something on someone high up in Goldman Sachs, The Carlyle Group, or Blackstone Group, and then give it to Wikileaks! Let the world see what the puppet-masters do “for a living,” and watch some serious dominos of complete and total corruption and graft fall off a cliff!

He was too busy cross-dressing and sucking dick.

Of course! They’re worried that Egypt could happen here. People are fed up.

As I’ve said from the beginning, these measures aren’t for terrorists. They’re for us.

However, this is not the symptom of an overbearing government. This is a symptom of a government controlled by special interests who have a lot to protect.

We need to take our government back and turn it on the real criminals, not dismantle it like the libertarian-tards recommend — that only gives the criminals free reign.

Last time I checked, the only ones who don’t want a cop on the beat are the criminals, namely, America’s wealthy corporate interests… but following the counsel of the libtardtarian would just hand everything over to the “free market” — code words for “you are officially fucked” because at that point, power will solely be derived by one’s net worth with no checks and balances codified in enforceable law.

Yes. those would be called “regulations,” which are universally despised by the money worshippers because they make them do things they wouldn’t otherwise do, like drill that extra ventilation shaft in a coal mine so it doesn’t explode, or put that acoustic valve on that well head a mile under the Gulf to ward off any ptential disaster. You know, those onerous, terrible regulations that get in the way of a libertariantard’s ideal of unfettered capitalism.

So now we see that when we fail to use the government to regulate the corporations, the corporations use the government to regulate us. Corporations are already treated as people with all of the rights and none of the responsibilities, but that’s not enough for them, because the handwriting is on the wall, writ large in nations like ours whose citizenry has fucking had it with a corrupt government and fully intend on taking their goverment back.

The more you run on the more you reveal your own ossified perspective. Socialism is an ECONOMIC system. It has nothing to do with your love of violence and guns. One can embrace the free market and hate guns and violence…they are unrelated. DUH!

All sane people understand the necessity for a certain level of security and “law and order” in any society. But the Patriot Act has always seemed to me to be incompatible with the Constitution, and we see from articles like this one that it is dangerous to expect such power will not be abused. I want security, but I do not think the citizens of this country wish to be treated like criminals! Especially when those doing the treating break the laws themselves.

All sane people understand the necessity for a certain level of security and “law and order” in any society. But the Patriot Act has always seemed to me to be incompatible with the Constitution, and we see from articles like this one that it is dangerous to expect such power will not be abused. I want security, but I do not think the citizens of this country wish to be treated like criminals! Especially when those doing the treating break the laws themselves.

Ossified – you need a good mirror my dear.

This government is corrupt, it is operated by a corrupt money system for the benefit of the ultra wealthy, and you kowtow to it so it will take better care of you. You are a dreamer not a realist, little friend. If philosophy is not your thing, read a few dystopian novels and then look around with new eyes.

Yep. They’re quite lethal. Don’t use them, that’s the best way to neutralize them. Not only that but they keep on their servers every single search that was done thru their engine since Google was founded and they were in a college dorm. They’re pretty proud of that fact as well and boast about it.

I am shocked. Did anyone really believe they would respect our rights after passing the Patriot Act?

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This is only the FBI, and only 40,000. One alphabet soup agency, and some of its misdeeds. What about the DEA? NSA? CIA? JTTF? BATF? I would be willing to wager that their crimes dwarf those of the FBI. Unauthorized surveillance? How about torturing someone to death, literally? Or deliberately firing incendiary rounds into a compound where children are held captive? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not making light of this, it is indeed shocking to see it in print for once.

The sad truth is…for all of the crimes (not violations, crimes) committed by our friends in the FBI, they’re actually eclipsed by the crimes against humanity that have been committed by US agencies that generally don’t make headlines.

What’s worse is that the people who did these things are, in fact, above the law. They will not be punished or even exposed. Just like your local cop can electrocute you, beat you to a pulp, and then charge you with various crimes for the privilege of being violated, all consequence-free (or maybe a paid vacation for the great “hero” that beat you), our local Feds can essentially do whatever they want. As long as they have their rubberstamp of approval from the judicial branch, if that’s even needed, there really is no limit to the suffering they can bring upon you. Innocence is completely irrelevant. The real crime is giving them a reason, however petty or arbitrary, to target you. Once you’re in their crosshairs, that’s you good and well fucked.

Maybe it’s time to stop importing poisoned Chinese baby formula and to start importing a little of that testicular fortitude the people of Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen apparently have an ample supply of.

Another thing, the only difference between the way these agencies operate now and before 9/11, is that since 9/11, legislators have been making a super-special best effort to make sure that these abuses are codified into law. They weren’t unleashed by legislation like the Patriot Act. They were only given an “official” greenlight to keep on doing what they already did. Anyone who believes that these agencies exist to protect us and put away the “bad” people needs to get their head checked. At least the Grimm brothers made their fairytales pleasant to read.

'40000 violations of the law' in FBI snooping: report | Raw Story…

Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……

I agree with you, except on one point. The Grimm Brothers fair tales weren’t really very pleasant.

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I used to work for a hospital in The Medical Center in Houston, Texas. One day, my boss got a phone call from “Rebecca”. “Rebecca” claimed to be an FBI agent. “Rebecca” had some “information” about an ex-employee of the hospital, named “Ishmael”. “Ishmael” was returning to the United States after having been “overseas” visiting his family, and “Rebecca” wanted to “put him on ICE”. “Rebecca” wanted to know, if my boss would be willing to “bypass all the red tape”, and provide her with the information that she needed? Such as, a social-security number, and some names and phone numbers from Ishmael’s emergency-contact file. I asked “Rebecca”, if she had any other information regarding “Ishmael”, such as a date-of-birth? Or, even better, a LAST NAME? “Rebecca” said, no, unfortunately, she didn’t have either of those things, and furthermore, was not even sure of the spelling of “Ishmael”. In other words, it might be “Ismail”, “Ishmail”, “Ismael”, “Ishmael”…… or even other variations. She really wasn’t sure. “So lemme get this straight”, I said to “Rebecca”, “You want to put “on ICE”, some guy who used to work here, you don’t have his last name, you don’t have a date of birth, you’re NOT EVEN SURE of the spelling of the first name you DO have, and you want us to, do what? “BYPASS”, the red-tape that you would normally have to observe, such as “Ishmael”‘s civil rights? His RIGHT TO PRIVACY? Is that right?” “Uh, well, basically yes”, Rebecca said. True story, I swear to God. And what’s even worse? My boss, an ex-Special Forces hot-shot, was more than willing to do it. Let me tell you people something: They don’t know WHAT they’re doing, and they don’t know TO WHOM they are doing it. They don’t have a freakin’ clue. This is A TRUE STORY.

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