Van de Patriot Act naar de National Defense Authorization Act

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Amerika uitroepen als Nazii-Hitlerstaat is een dringende noodzakelijkheid en zal politici dwingen alle niet zakelijke contacten te negeren.

Eveneens - gezien de wetgeving - moet de VS uit de VN worden gezet. Het land moet beschouwd worden als vijand no 1 van de wereld.

Wil de VN dat wel ? Ik veronderstel dat die mensen weldegelijk op de hoogte zijn van deze ontwikkelingen.

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Hoe ging het Amerikaanse volkslied ook al weer... 'Land of the free, home of the brave'?

Beetje zoals het belgische; ze zullen hem niet temmen, zolang hij tanden heeft..
Wel ze hebben de tanden al goed uitgeklopt, nu vijlen ze de klauwen ook nog wel af.
Probleem is dat de meesten het niet willen geloven of simpelweg niet zien maar daar zijn we stilletjes aan meer en meer aan naar het toegroeien; een wereldwijde politiestaat die geen enkel verzet meer duld tegen zijn beleid. En de zogezegde vrijheden die we nu nog hebben gaan ook verdwijnen en er zal een doorgedreven censuur komen op alles wat nog maar riekt naar protest of ontevredenheid.

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Beetje zoals het belgische; ze zullen hem niet temmen, zolang hij tanden heeft..

Is dit nu wat ze noemen een Letermeke doen ?

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Nu Mr. Obama, ondanks zijn zinloze persoonlijke verklaring dat hij nooit Amerikaanse burgers zou laten arresteren zonder recht op recht, het NDAA heeft goedgekeurd via zijn betekenisvolle persoonlijke handtekening volgt de volgende zet...

Het eindspel voor het internet SOPA & PIPA, een dubbele aanval op de cyberwereld om free speech en de steeds groeiende alternatieve media de das om te doen.

SOPA's most frightening flaw is the future it predicts


In late October of this year, Republican Senator Lamar Smith entered a bill called the Stop Online Piracy Act into the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill, which is still at the committee stage but may pass as early as next year, is the latest attempt to tackle the issue of copyright infringement in the digital age, and has the blessing of many of the major American content producers and industry associations, such as the Motion Picture Association of America.

SOPA also has opposition – massive, unprecedented opposition. The reasons for this opposition are varied, but basically boil down to this: within the bill’s 78 pages is a blueprint for ruining the Internet. In that sense, SOPA is a remarkable achievement. Rarely does a proposed law manage to be so bad in so many different ways.

Like the Clear Skies Act or the Ministry of Love, the Stop Online Piracy Act is somewhat confusingly named. Even though it is primarily a piece of anti-piracy legislation, SOPA is broad. The proposed bill gives the U.S. government, through the office of the Attorney General, the power to pursue court orders against any site believed to be engaging in copyright infringement. (There’s nothing adversarial about the court proceedings that lead to those orders: the defendant doesn’t even have to be present).

Armed with that power, the Attorney General can then order search engines to remove the site from their listings. The AG can likewise order Internet Service Providers to block users from accessing the site. The AG can also order advertising networks and payment providers to stop doing business with the site. And all those entities are compelled to comply. Indeed, the bill imposes stiff penalties on anyone who doesn’t, and offers immunity to ad networks and payment processors that follow orders. As such, SOPA is chock-full of incentives for ISPs, content-hosting sites and other such entities to go along with the government’s demands.

SOPA combines these iron-fist powers with a series of broad definitions. Whereas some previous incarnations of anti-piracy bills in the U.S. at least focused on sites that were primarily dedicated to copyright infringement – those virtual hangouts where nobody does anything but trade bootleg copies of the new Transformers movie – SOPA sets its sights on any infringement, no matter how small. That means the Attorney General can pursue court orders against and demand the blocking of any Web site with a tiny amount of infringing content. Somebody used an unauthorized Maroon 5 song in that summer vacation video they posted on your social network? The entire site now falls under SOPA’s penalty clauses.

The bill also covers more than just infringement (the act of streaming copyrighted content, a felony under SOPA, carries a five-year prison sentence). It also covers “facilitating” such content. That term is so poorly defined, however, it could well apply to a hyperlink on an entirely unrelated Web site, or a single Tweet. The potential for self-censorship is glaring, as is the potential for false positives – how many sites will nuke non-infringing content, or links to such content, just to be safe?

And because SOPA also prohibits tools that could be used to get around the Attorney General’s blockade, it may also mean that the same anonymity and address-spoofing software used by activists and protesters will become illegal to U.S. Internet users (many of these tools, incidentally, are funded by the U.S. government, which has no problem with protesters in Iran or China using them). That’s in part why a number of human rights organizations have come out against the bill.

There are plenty of other SOPA spillover effects. Because the proposed law would give the U.S. government the ability to demand that American domain-name registrars block certain sites, many of those registrars will have to implement complex new technical measures. Indeed, the process of blocking those sites will go a long way toward screwing up the technical fabric of the Internet by throwing a U.S. government blacklist onto the global domain-name system.

The most immediate impact of SOPA, it seems, will be to force American users to learn the same tricks their counterparts in Iran, Saudi Arabia and China already know.

If it is designed to do anything other than placate the largest U.S. copyright-holders, then SOPA is a failure. But the most frightening aspect of the bill isn’t its contents, it’s the future it predicts.

For years, opposition to heavy-handed anti-online-piracy bills has been somewhat subdued, at least in part because there’s a perception in some corners that the only people who really have anything to fear under such laws are the digital thieves who would rather download music and movies illegally than pay for them – the punks keeping food off Vin Diesel’s table. Whether there’s any merit to that perception is, at best, debatable. But SOPA makes no distinction. A person who hasn’t so much as heard of BitTorrent can wake up one day to find their entire account on a video-hosting site inaccessible, all because somebody else used the same service to upload a copy of the Fast and the Furious.

And because the U.S. is still where much of the Internet’s infrastructure lives, SOPA isn’t just going to effect Americans.

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Firefox heeft reeds een add-on die deze restricties gedeeltelijk kunnen omzeilen. Zoals oa. de SOPA add-on..

Lees ook meer : HIER - endoftheamericandream - why-we-must-stop-sopa

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Wikipedia in het Engels gaat een dag staken.

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Wikipedia in het Engels gaat een dag staken.

Mooi zo, maar deze actie is praktisch nutteloos. Vijgen na Pasen...

Het protest vanuit de cyberwereld/alternatieve media/freespeachers was de laatste twee weken zodanig indrukwekkend dat deze plannen reeds werden opgeborgen.

SOPA was sowieso een NO GO !

De protesten zouden grootse proporties aangenomen hebben en daar de elite toch graag positief overkomt voor de gewone burger hebben ze vlug afgezien van het invoeren van deze wetgeving. Het is duidelijk dat een groots wereldwijd protest, dat sowieso succesvol zou zijn, de positie van de elite op een bijzonder onaantrekkelijke wijze zou verzwakken. Het zou maar al te desastreus zijn voor de machtspositie van de elite moest de globale (cyber)bevolking een overwinning bekomen en zich realiseren dat ze de elite kunnen verslagen. BTW, het welles/niet spelletje alvorens men de NDAA-wetgeving juist op nieuwjaar goedkeurde heeft velen 'plots' wakker geschud...
De weerstand tegen SOPA was dan ook enorm.

Vandaar, deze actie van de jongens van Wikipedia(controlled pedia) en kan U daarover nu lezen in eender welk dagblad. De strijd is reeds gestreden... SOPA is DEAD !
Nu mag SOPA in het dagblad...

Dead On Arrival: SOPA Shelved Indefinitely, Obama Succumbs to Pressure, Issues Official Veto Threat

Amid significant pressure from tens of thousands of internet users and major web behemoths like Google, Facebook, and Reddit, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is, in its current form, Dead on Arrival:

Misguided efforts to combat online privacy have been threatening to stifle innovation, suppress free speech, and even, in some cases, undermine national security. As of yesterday, though, there’s a lot less to worry about.

The first sign that the bills’ prospects were dwindling came Friday, when SOPA sponsors agreed to drop a key provision that would have required service providers to block access to international sites accused of piracy.

The legislation ran into an even more significant problem yesterday when the White House announced its opposition to the bills. Though the administration’s chief technology officials officials acknowledged the problem of online privacy, the White House statement presented a fairly detailed critique of the measures and concluded, “We will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.” It added that any proposed legislation “must not tamper with the technical architecture of the Internet.”

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Though the administration did issue a formal veto threat, the White House’s opposition signaled the end of these bills, at least in their current form.

A few hours later, Congress shelved SOPA, putting off action on the bill indefinitely.

Sourced From Washington Monthly via The Daily Sheeple

Sponsored primarily by purported free speech advocates that include democrats and republicans alike, the SOPA would have fundamentally transformed the internet as we know it today. As Daisy Luther writes at Inalienably Yours, the bill was nothing short of a direct attack against the first Amendment and the right to free speech:

On closer inspection, the legalese in the bill has the potential to eviscerate free speech….and like NDAA, without proof…only with suspicion of “wrong-doing”. It’s all about copyright infringement. If you tick off the powers that be, and you’ve quoted someone, somewhere, saying something, you may have infringed on their copyright. As a defendant, you are not even present at the legal proceeding allowing “them” to shut you down until you prove yourself innocent.

How do they shut you down? Search engines are required to remove you from their listings. Internet Service Providers can be ordered to block access to your site. Advertising networks and payment providers can also be forced to cease doing business with you. This continues until you are proven INNOCENT. Wait – I thought it was innocent until proven guilty….oh….that was “before” the NDAA.

Source: The Internet: The Last Bastion of Free Speech

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In de VS is er meer vrijheid dan in de rest van de wereld.

De National Defense Authorization Act is gewoon een fiscale wet die de budgetten van het ministerie van Defensie bepaald.

"The National Defense Authorization Act greatly expands the power and scope of the federal government to fight the War on Terror, including codifying into law the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects without trial. Under the new law the US military has the power to carry out domestic anti-terrorism operations on US soil."

Zo heel veel verschillen met het oude nazi-duitsland zijn er niet echt meer, niet ginder en niet hier.
En het is al langer bezig dan vandaag, de agenda nog donkerder dan die van in 39-45 en meer verdoken dan openlijk. Uiteraard want iets dat je kan verweven in het geheel is veel moeilijker uit te roeien nadien en geeft u meer controle of minstens toch de illusie.

PS: Amerika is nooit het land geweest van de vrije en de dappere maar van de onderdrukten, slaven en de gewetenloze meesters en de volgzame dommeriken. En men wil dat in de EU net zo. Vrijheid en democratie zijn altijd van in het begin illusies geweest waar zij en wij ons aan vastklampen, blind zoals elke religie nodig heeft.

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Is dit nu wat ze noemen een Letermeke doen ?

Inderdaad, ik heb een letermeke gedaan. shame, shame on me.
Ik had Belgische in Vlaamse moeten veranderen maar te vlug op de send knop gedrukt en niet nagelezen..
Bij deze mijn excuses en hoop hiermee mijn post rechtgezet te hebben.

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PIPA leeft nog... en om te voorkomen dat een afgezwakte SOPA wordt goedgekeurd...


PIPA
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s112-968

Druk hier op de OPPOSE knop: https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s968

SOPA
www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-3261

Druk hier op de OPPOSE knop: https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr3261

Teken hier tegen SOPA & PIPA: http://americancensorship.org/
On Wednesday Jan. 18th thousands of sites will go dark to protest SOPA & PIPA, two US bills racing through Congress that threaten prosperity, online security, and freedom of expression.

I am writing to you as a voter in your district. I urge you to vote "no" on cloture for S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act, on Jan. 24th. The PROTECT IP Act is dangerous, ineffective, and short-sighted. It does not deserve floor consideration. I urge my representative to vote "no" on SOPA, the corresponding House bill.

Over coming days you'll be hearing from the many businesses, advocacy organizations, and ordinary Americans who oppose this legislation because of the myriad ways in which it will stifle free speech and innovation. We hope you'll take our concerns to heart and oppose this legislation by voting "no" on cloture.

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Ron Paul laat zijn campagne even voor wat het is en gaat NU in de aanval tegen NDAA !!!

Ron Paul Moves To Repeal NDAA Police State Provisions!
*** Zij die tegen Alex Jones zijn, klik AUB NIET op de video

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Ron Paul Explains NDAA An Unconstitutional Law

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RP tegen PATRIOT ACT,SOPA,PIPA & NDAA !!!

Liberty: PATRIOT ACT,SOPA,PIPA & NDAA
The Daily Trumpet officially endorses Ron Paul for President in 2012!
This guy Rocks! He get's it. Repeal the Patriot Act, Stop the wars for oil, reverse NDAA, and Stop SOPA. He's my choice for President in 2012. I hope and pray that the Americans don't let Main Stream Media pick their candidate for them. We the People.

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UPDATE: ook PIPA werd vandaag tot een nog niet bepaalde datum 'opgeborgen' (Harry Reid) !!

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HB 2759, een wetsvoorstel tegen de NDAA

http://apps.leg.wa.gov - bill=2759

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Souvereine Amerikaan = Terrorist ! Minstens 100.000 terroristen in de V.S. ('Homebrew')

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'Sovereign citizen' movement now on FBI's radar

The Homeland Security Department has ranked the movement as a major threat. Its members reject the law, and some kill police.


Reporting from Washington—
With the FBI pounding on his door, and his wife and two children barely awake, Shawn Rice allegedly strapped on a bulletproof vest, grabbed a semiautomatic pistol and stepped out his back door on Dec. 22.

But dozens of FBI agents and local police had surrounded the ranch house in Seligman, Ariz., about 80 miles west of Flagstaff, and the only nearby cover was knee-high sagebrush. Rice ducked back inside, and warned the FBI to keep away.

After a tense 10-hour standoff, Rice, 49, was arrested. He now sits in a Las Vegas jail awaiting trial on federal money-laundering charges.

But it wasn't Rice's alleged offense alone that prompted the FBI's interest.

According to court papers, Rice was involved in the "sovereign citizen" movement, a group that has attracted little national media attention but which the FBI classifies as an "extremist antigovernment group." So-called sovereign citizens argue that they are not subject to local, state or federal laws, and some refuse to recognize the authority of courts or police.

Since 2000, members of the movement have killed six police officers, and clashes with law enforcement are on the rise, according to the FBI. The deadliest incident came in 2010, when a shootout with a member left four people dead, including two police officers, during what began as a routine traffic stop in West Memphis, Ark.

Since then, in a notable shift in policy, federal officials have stepped up their attention on sovereign citizens.

"We are focusing our efforts because of the threat of violence," said Stuart R. McArthur, a deputy assistant director in the FBI's Counterterrorism Division.

In two recent unpublished studies, the Homeland Security Department and the National Counterterrorism Center ranked the sovereign citizen movement as a major threat, along with Islamic extremists and white supremacists. The FBI assigned a supervisor to coordinate investigations of the movement last year.

"This is a movement that has absolutely exploded," said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit organization based in Montgomery, Ala., that tracks domestic terrorists and hate groups. More than 100,000 Americans have aligned themselves with the sovereign citizens, the center said.

Adherents cite a patchwork of beliefs, including that the U.S. is essentially under martial law, that some U.S. constitutional amendments are invalid, and that dollars have been illegitimate since the U.S. Treasury went off the gold standard during the Great Depression.

Most important, some followers believe they are entitled to use armed force to resist arrest and fight police.

The FBI also is investigating followers for alleged mail fraud and harassment of federal officials through nuisance lawsuits and property liens. Such cases are clogging courts in every state, said Casey Carty, who heads the FBI's sovereign citizen unit.

Until recently, federal officials had steered clear of any extensive focus on right-wing extremist groups. In 2009, some members of Congress complained after a Homeland Security Department report warned that such groups might seek to recruit disaffected military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as others. The report highlighted several groups, including the sovereign citizen movement.

Bowing to the criticism, Homeland Security officials gutted the office that had focused on right-wing extremism. They also canceled planned presentations and shelved a reference guide that the office had produced to inform local police about the movement.

"The topic had become too politically charged," said Daryl Johnson, who headed the team that wrote the 2009 report.

That changed after the West Memphis shootout with Jerry Kane Jr., a sovereign citizen proponent who had traveled the country offering $100-a-head seminars that taught spurious ways to avoid paying taxes, among other movement tactics.

Kane and his 16-year-old son, Joseph, were killed in the shootout. Also killed was Police Sgt. Brandon Paudert, son of the local police chief, Bob Paudert.

Paudert had never heard of the sovereign citizen movement until that day. Now retired, he has spoken to more than 75 law enforcement groups around the country warning of its danger.

Paudert remains angry that Kane wasn't identified as potentially armed and dangerous in the FBI-run database that local police normally access for warrants and other data when they stop a vehicle. He wants the FBI to change the database to flag known sovereign citizen adherents.

"If we had that, [my son] would have immediately called for backup," Paudert said. "He would be alive today."

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Martial law in de V.S. ?

In plaats van enkel gedurende ernstige bedreigingen (oa. kernwapens), kan men nu ook 'Martial law' invoeren zoals bvb. bij een grote economische crisis.

Martial Law + NDAA = fun

Video : Obama Implementing Martial Law Coup!

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
March 16, 2012
Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness

EXECUTIVE ORDER

NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

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Obama’s Latest Executive Order: Martial Law, Confiscation of Private Property and Forced Labor



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