Monday, April 23, 2012

What Are These People Smoking?

And what are the rest of us smoking to sit by and let them get away with it?  I know we're a nation of hypocrites, but this is Twilight Zone.  First, Hillary, now this.
US President Barack Obama will issue an executive order Monday allowing sanctions to be imposed against foreigners who use technologies to carry out human rights abuses, The Washington Post said.

The order would target those found to have used technologies including cellphone tracking or the Internet to carry out violations.

Citing unnamed officials, the newspaper said the governments of Syria and Iran have used social media and cellphone technology to crack down on dissent and conduct surveillance.

  Raw Story
What, technologies like the internet surveillance the Bush administration instigated and the Obama administration is expanding? Technologies like the data gathering he's about to increase to hitherto unimagined volumes?  Technologies like tracking cell phones of protesters?  Technologies like drone surveillance over America?
The executive order, which Obama will announce during a Monday speech at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, will also target companies and individuals assisting the governments of Iran and Syria, the paper said.
What, like AT&T in the US?

Justice isn't blind in this country, it's dead. 

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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