Is The Government Tracking Your (Cell Phone's) Movements?

By talkleft

Our thanks are due to the ACLU and the EFF for their tireless efforts to safeguard our privacy in the age of electronic information. As technology changes, the government finds new ways to circumvent the Fourth Amendment. These organizations do their best to stay on top of the government's intrusion into our electronic lives.

The ACLU made a Freedom of Information Act request (pdf) to the Justice Department seeking information about the government's warrantless tracking of cell phone locations.

The ACLU filed the FOIA request in November following media reports that federal officials were using Americans' cellular phones to pinpoint their locations without a warrant or any court oversight, the groups said. Some government officials at the time said they did not need probable cause to obtain tracking information from mobile phones. In addition, the reports said some federal law enforcement agents had obtained tracking data from wireless carriers without any court oversight.

The Justice Department declined the request. The ACLU and the EFF responded by filing suit (pdf) to compel the disclosure.

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Police State USA - Big Brother's Most Cool Tool

In June, 2005, George Bush placed a portion of the FBI under his personal control, creating the National Security Service. This secret police apparatus, to be operated by the White House, will have no congressional oversight.(18) In October, 2005, Bush created by executive order the National Clandestine Service, a new sticky arm of the CIA empowered to carry out covert operations and dirty tricks within the United States.(19) How many Gestapo units does a Fuhrer need?

Keep in mind this article was written over 2 years ago ...

Senate Minority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) calls this Congress the "most corrupt" in history.(1) U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) often uses the term "police state" to describe our national state of affairs. George Bush is making the most expansive claims to unbridled power since America's War for Independence, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT).(2) Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who proved Bush/Cheney lied to launch us into war with Iraq, says "fascist forces have seized control of the levers of power."(3)

Americans are being told that their Republic has become a fascist police state-they just need ears to hear. In a fascist police state, the dictator secures his power with support from private corporations which are given special privileges and thus benefit from doing business with dictators.

Continuously bribed by 28,000 corporate lobbyists (4) in D.C., Congress is doing its part to build a fascist system in America. During President Bush's recent State of the Union speech, these tainted legislators perpetually rose to their feet to applaud the spewing of what a New York Times editorial called "misleading analogies, propaganda slogans and false choices."(5) Their bootlicking recalls a by-gone Soviet era when endless rows of robotic Central Party members applauded the likes of Stalin to ensure their next breath of oxygen.

After passage of the Patriot Act of 2001, Rep. Paul told Insight Magazine that the 2,200-page bill was not made available to Congress to read before the vote.(6) So the most corrupt Congress in history rubber-stamped the most fascist legislation they had never read. Our constitution enumerates inalienable rights that are emphatically restated in the first 10 amendments known as "The Bill of Rights." Under the Patriot Act, the "right" to free speech, peaceable assembly and security in one's person, papers and effects have been relegated to "privileges" that government can take away at whim. Patriot Act authority has suspended the right to due process and a prompt and public trial; it even cancels protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Agents serving the fascist state can freely wire-tap our phones, enter our homes/offices, search and seize without warrant and detain us indefinitely without charges-ostensibly to keep America safe.

The ink had barely dried on the Patriot Act when Congress passed the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Rep. Paul stated that Congress also did not read the 500-page bill that gave birth to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).(7) DHS, a creepy intelligence gathering apparatus reminiscent of the Nazi SS, has merged 22 federal agencies and their databases, employing nearly a quarter million workers. The New York Times columnist William Safire told the American people that, under DHS, "You are a suspect."(8) Rep. Paul confirms that "the Department represents a huge new increase in the size and scope of the federal government that will mostly serve to spy on the American people."(9)

Yale's powerful Skull and Bones network also has a predilection for fascism ... This telling article by Amy Worthington is CONTINUED HERE

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There's a really easy way around this, you know

Turn the GPS function of your phone OFF.

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool

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Police State USA - Big Brother's Most Cool Tool Continued ...

As millions of Americans now know-the official 9/11 fable violates the laws of natural science.

· A jet liner can't disappear into a hole less than half its size without leaving wreckage (Pentagon).

· Hijackers can't be killed in plane crashes and later be found alive and living lawfully in various locations throughout the world.

· Smoldering fires too cool to bend, let alone melt steel girders can't collapse two skyscrapers simultaneously at the speed of gravity (Twin Towers).

Brigham Young University physics professor Steven Jones has demonstrated mathematically that pre-positioned explosives, detonated in precise sequence, were necessary to bring the Trade Center buildings down.(49) Former German Minister Andreas von Buelow has explained to the entire world why the complex 9/11 attack was impossible without U.S. government and corporate backing.(50) Russian General Leonid Ivashov said recently that the 9/11 attack was faked by government and corporate officials who have invented the war on terror as a tool for global political and economic manipulation.(51)

Hundreds of 9/11 families know this and in May 2002, they filed suit against the feds for the sacrificial death of their loved ones.(52) Their attorney, Stanley Hilton, has stated that he went to school years ago with Paul Wolfowitz and other Bush advisors who even then were planning a fake Pearl Harbor-like attack to grease the skids for a presidential dictatorship.(53) Because these sociopaths got away with 9/11, the door remains wide open for them to unleash future fake attacks to leap frog their fascist plans forward.

The most corrupt Congress in history has collaborated with 9/11 perpetrators in a shameful cover-up of this horrible genocide project. Perhaps they tolerate treason because they are afraid to end up like the late Senator Paul Wellstone, who died in a suspicious plane crash after leading opposition to the Bush gang's war in Iraq.(54) Or they are afraid of getting an anthrax message as did the staffs of Tom Daschle and Pat Leahy after those two senators sassed the president back in 2001.(55) According to research of Dr. Len Horowitz and others, the anthrax strain mailed to enemies of the state originated in a CIA research program. It is apparent that even the anthrax scare was an inside job.(56) If America gets the flu, will it be from "the birds"-or from "the boys?"

This VERY telling article by Amy Worthington is CONTINUED HERE

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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith

If You Question Th Official Account Of 9/11 AT ALL Vote For ...

In this country, we have a problem. One of many. Our election process is tainted. We are forced to choose between heads or tails of the same exact coin. Because of electronic voting, it is not guaranteed that who you vote for will actually get your vote. Because the media is controlled, we never hear from candidates that do not represent the 1% of this country. Because campaign reform doesn't exist, the candidates of the 1% get as much money as they need, making it impossible for anyone to compete. Third Party candidates are not allowed to enter Presidential debates. Very simply, the process that allegedly gives the people the responsibility of choosing who is best to lead this country, does not work.

We belong to the 9/11 Truth Movement. To us, there is no issue more important than 9/11 Truth. In the coming election, there is only one candidate that represents our interests. That person is former Representative Cynthia McKinney.

Over the years, Cynthia has championed this cause moreso than any other elected official. She has held public and Congressional hearings on this very topic in the hopes of educating Americans about what is really going on. She has confronted people like Donald Rumsfeld, and General Richard Myers about this issue. Since trying to get the Green Party nomination for President, she has made sure to mention 9/11 Truth in every interview I have seen her in.

As I said, our election process is tainted. There is no hope that Cynthia McKinney will win the 2008 Presidential Election. None at all. If you vote for Cynthia, it will be a wasted vote. However, if you question the official account of 9/11 AT ALL, then Cynthia McKinney is your candidate. To me, I would rather vote with my mind, and with my heart, than ever consider giving my vote to someone that does not deserve it. Because of this, my vote is going to Cynthia McKinney.

My suggestion to everyone that belongs to this movement or questions the official account of 9/11 AT ALL is as follows:

Vote for Cynthia McKinney, or don't vote at all. We want truth and accountability for the 9/11 attacks, we are not going away, and we are NOT giving our vote to anyone that refuses to do the right thing.

http://www.runcynthiarun.org/

To learn more about Cynthia McKinney, click here.

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Escaping the Wonder Years

Once a nation of self-starters we now look to the government to supply us everything we want from health to education and a forgiveness for our own folly in managing our finances. We prefer to blame others, rather than change ourselves and then we wonder why this delegation of accountability results in increasing chaos, hardship and malaise. When our collective self-esteem is bruised because others refuse to put up with our self-centeredness, we resort to brute force and kill, like the bully on the block. We choose violence to force our will rather than the tools of civilized nations and then pat ourselves on the back for succeeding in brutality. 'Do it our way or no way' we say to the world and within our self-righteous narrative, we think we've won. We haven't. Like that same bully we continue to isolate ourselves from others and the rest of the world watches. They fear us, but only for the moment. They've seen this before and know they don't need to destroy us; we'll destroy ourselves in good time for a house divided always falls.

We as a nation are divided. The tougher times get, the scarcer necessities, the more divided we will become. We have the power as Americans to reverse this if only we'd stop judging each other and listen. Once we listened. Today, rather than listen to opinions and ponder ideas, we segregate:

'That is liberal, I'm a conservative so I won't listen'.

'That is fundamentalism, as a liberal I shall not listen'.

'What you say doesn't match the narrative I've created so you cannot be right.'

This closing off of the free exchange and debate of ideas by categorizing serves only those profiting from ignorance; yet we as a people allow it and embrace it. Why think when others can think for us and tell us what is proper to think? After all, this was the foundation of empires and monarchies up until 237 years ago on July 4, 1776. It took thinking coupled with action to break from that then. It will take the same today. Are we Americans today a lesser people? The game is the same. Only the technology has changed.

The fact is America we've digressed as a nation. We live by labels and therefore excise ourselves from the primary responsibility of being free: accountability. Accountability requires vigilance. It requires work. It mandates we become involved and educate ourselves beyond what we are told. Accountability necessitates we seek out opinions different from our own, test them, ponder them and consider. It means we have the capacity to question, theorize and when necessary, admit our misconceptions, misinterpretations and folly. Accountability means we become involved, we become one of the 15%-ers who make things happen. This is the mark of mature person and a mature nation.

Given our conduct of late, America seems stuck in the wonder years, those years of childhood where a person is too young to be held accountable and decisions originate with adults, yet the child remains old enough for self-awareness and guarded responsibility. It is during this time his character is shaped and he learns from his mistakes by accepting accountability for his actions.

The full article by by Laura Dawn Lewis can be found here

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