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2013-07-23 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2013-07-23 12:45|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 it is my opinion that the behavior of the administration and the media, in plain disregard of the fact, means that the goal is not combating actual racism (per the old definition, not the new, tailored one), but continuing a program of dhimmification. Compare the verbal behavior of an abuser attempting to maintain control over a victim showing signs of "having had enough" with the verbal behavior we are hearing from the White House and the media. I think there is fear that, having failed so far in their attempts to judicially lynch Zimmerman, "people will get uppity", increasing the difficulty of maintaining and extending an attitude of "I can't win against these people." The NSA monitoring program CANNOT possibly monitor everyone because it is designed to search for linkages (connections) between people (nodes). The possible number of connections between nodes grows to the factorial of the number of nodes, which makes the problem of universal scanning computationally unfeasable. They best they can hope is get clues as to who to monitor and monitor a subset of suspicious nodes. The power the NSA program holds over ALL the people is actually miniscule, though it is immense over a few. The intimidation factor is that EVERYONE believes that THEY are the FEW the NSA is monitoring. It is THAT intimidation factor that is the major portion of the value that the NSA monitoring program gives to "The Man", since most people will keep their heads down and not show up as false positives in the system, requiring the expenditure of resources to positively eliminate. "Keeping your head down" ==> Not "getting uppity".

(An aside: Given this, the best way to gut the value of the monitoring program is for more people to "get uppity". We already know the IRS targets the tea party, and there is no indication to believe that the NSA is not doing so as well. "Getting Uppity" means more potential threats that the NSA has to monitor. Toss in a few weakly encrypted passages from the declaration of independence or the Bill of Rights, and there will be so many distractors that the combinatorial explosion would bring the system to its knees. The only alternative is trimming the search space, which means leaving out suspects, which should give the professional paranoids in charge of the program stomach ulcers.)

Posted by Ptah 2013-07-23 15:27|| 2013-07-23 15:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Toss in a few weakly encrypted passages from the declaration of independence or the Bill of Rights, and there will be so many distractors that the combinatorial explosion would bring the system to its knees.

I'm awfully glad you are on our side, Ptah. Isn't "overwhelm 'em by their rules" one of the Alinsky tactics?

Posted by trailing wife 2013-07-23 18:58|| 2013-07-23 18:58|| Front Page Top

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