cartoon below from Tom Tomorrow at his
website. There you'll find his explanation of what has served as the impetus for his latest work--good, quick read, if not dispiriting to see what our current government is trying to do to its citizens. Get the word out--talk about it, pass info along; get better informed. Whether it's drones or something else, we all need to better informed and more engaged regardless of who is in the WH and whatever party we identify w/ personally--it's the only way to hold our government accountable.
Some good content out there on the US usage of drones, which certainly still feels like an under-covered story by the MSM (mainstream media). I'll be updating this posting throughout the day--feel free to join the conversation in the comments below.
Work in progress
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Trevor Timm at The Electronic Frontier Foundation--Defending Your Rights in the Digital World--has an important piece that is definitely worth reading if you're concerned about the use of drones w/in the United States and abroad (and if you're not, you should be). There's even a map to find out if your local police have been keeping their drones on the down-low from you and your neighbors:
Local Governments Have the Power to Restrict Drone Surveillance in the US
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Release the drones! #NATO
signs $1.7 Bill Deal w/Northrup Grumman 4 Global Surveillance. (via Occupy
Chicago)
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Follow @Drones
for all news on surveillance & military drones in US & internationally
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Pakistani filmmaker denied visa to travel to US
to accept his film festival award for his short film about drone deaths http://is.gd/Mk9pdj
30,000 drones flying over head watching everything we do; what's the big deal? The NDAA did give the president the power to indefinately detain American citizens simply on the basis of suspision of terrorism, but President Obama promised not to use that power. And I'm sure the next elected president will be just as kind. So, come on, stop worrying about such stuff. Hey aren't they picking the new American Idol soon?
ReplyDelete“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin
Regarding striking down the ban of domestic dissemination of government propaganda, Homer Simpson (as he so often has) proves to be a prophet.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyWvb4Ty6A8
repeal of Glass Steagall . . . NDAA . . . "striking down the ban of domestic dissemination of government propaganda" . . . boy, I sure am glad I vote for Democrats and not those low-down, dirty-rotten Republicans!
ReplyDeleteIf we could get all the Supreme Court Justices to promise not to die in the next four years, I could almost be persuaded to vote for Mitt (heck, maybe even Ron Paul)--at least then the Liberals would squawk when our civil liberties were being quashed.
PS--love Ben Franklin and Homer in the same comment section--very cool