- The poor WaPost is worried about the “growing insurrection.” So very, very much the poor WaPost fails to understand.
- Just how bad is the growing growing student loan mess?
- More info on why the DoJ is so desperate to conceal info about its stingray searches and interceptions. Oh, there’s so much to hide!
- What? You didn’t already know this?
- And this, too: “When everything is a crime.”
UPDATE on Joel’s siding bleg. He’s getting there, but could really, really use another $400. Just that much more. Yeah, I know it’s tax time and the fedgov thinks you should give your extra $400 (or $10 or $25) to them, instead. But hey, which is a better cause? Keeping walls around Joel’s computer so he can provide years more of his great blogitude? Or buying … oh, one weld on a CIA drone so you can help kill peasants in Nowhereistan?
The Williamson article was very good, but I have a couple of nits to pick with it:
1) The bad guys in the article was “progressives”, but of course people of all political stripes are equally prone to hysteria. Look at all the fuss among traditional conservatives around the war on drugs, or “invasion” by Mexicans, or “terrism”.
2) He concludes, “It is for this reason that we protect ourselves with laws — laws that we write down, so as to be able to refer to the text with some precision — and with separation of powers, due process, standards of evidence, presumptions of innocence, and, ideally, with a press that uses its First Amendment protections more honestly and more intelligently than does Rolling Stone.” If we are dependent on things like laws, we are truly screwed. One has only to look at statutes of any state to understand this, or to look at how much money and how many careers are dependent on pushing victims of the state through the “Criminal Justice” meat grinder.
The human world is 90% bullshit. Mostly that can be avoided or gotten around, but when people are directly attacked by a prosecutorial apparatus fueled by a load of bullshit, the real problem is the hope of its victims, their trust that these state institutions (mentioned by Williamson) will get them out of trouble. With 2.3 million Americans (almost all political prisoners) in jail, it’s clear that is a vain hope. At some point people must come to understand that the only real remedy left, when one is attacked, is to take up arms and fight.
The comments at the Post article are priceless, including one breathless revolutionary calling for the 99% to get ready to rise now, and don’t ever let those wicked GOP fascists take their guns away! I swear, it inspires awe to see somebody so deep in the bubble that they can’t distinguish their own fingerpainting on the walls for windows.
I think the student loans were about providing another predatory avenue for the banking cartels to increase their electronic balance sheets which would allow them to secure mor investment money by bundling and selling the debt like they do with mortgages etc. I sould guess the Federal Government is tracking the “guarenteed” student loans as positive income if they actually did any kind of accounting. It’s not 1 trillion of money the govt has tied up, but 1 trillion plus interest of monies to come in. The fact that none of the money exists is truly laughable, in an insane, hysterical way.
If I was a cynical pessimist, then I would suggest the student loan program was designed to transfer more money from the poor to the wealthy and help destroy the U.S. Economy even faster than predicted. Even though it can’t be discharged by bankruptcy for now, if nobody pays the bills what happens to the organizations holding the bag?
Interesting how WaPo managed to confuse supporting the Constitution with insurrection, and trampling the Bill of Rights with legitimate Chief Executive actions. The mistake is so bad it must be intentional. Damned commies.
DOJ is clearly trying to hide something are afraid will be declared illegal. I wonder if someone couldn’t develop cell phone software to identify bogus cell towers and just drop the call whenever one is encountered. The service providers ‘hand off’ calls from one tower to another as you drive along, so there must be some kind of ‘tower ID’ involved that could be used to do that. Besides, if you stick a spoof tower out there and there isn’t any tower ID involved, then every call by any cell phone would get picked up. That’s a lot of damned ‘incidental’ spying.
I have to wonder about the ‘college rape crisis’ thing. Why don’t most of these crimes get reported? Why don’t the schools get sued for not calling police and letting them handle the allegations? Why don’t some of ‘the girls’ give those perverts a blanket party and leave them for dead – or sodomized with a Louisville Slugger? Are we really so infused with authoritarianism that we can’t do anything for ourselves any more?
When everything is a crime, citizens are completely subdued by fedgov. Anything you do to attract attention will give them a reason to dig thru your life for punishable crimes. The video “Don’t Talk to Police” says there are 20k laws on the books and if they want to ‘get you’, they can. And now they grab all your assets too so you can’t afford to hire an attorney. It sucks.