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March 17, 2004
First they came for Howard Stern....
....and if we're not careful, we'll all find ourselves in the same bureaucratic soup! Here's an appalling development: Anyone who doesn't think the FCC wants power over the Internet should read the above carefully. And weep. Particularly appalling is the statement that "the introduction of new services that did not support a back door for police would be outlawed." The word "services" is not defined, but I am assuming they include ISPs. Which means an end to independent operators of ISPs, an end to confidentiality, and ultimately, an end to the freedom we have enjoyed on the Internet. Of course, there'd be nothing to stop offshore ISPs, unless that too becomes a crime. "The DEA is behind this," says Glenn Reynolds. Yeah, and the FBI, and now the FCC. This is the latest incarnation of Admiral Poindexter's Total Information Awareness program. Americans have fought and died in battle for hundreds of years to preserve our freedom. And now the current generation can watch it dissolve gradually in a sickening brew of bureaucratic alphabet soup, the letters of which are ever-closer to spelling the word "F-A-S-C-I-S-M." But who wants to read the soup we're in? posted by Eric on 03.17.04 at 07:43 PM |
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This effort, and the failure of intelligence to uncover any "chatter" preceding Madrid -- suggests that the feds have failed badly in the REAL war against terror -- the offline one.
News reports periodically remind us that Al Qaeda does not communicate openly via Internet or phone; they communicate via personal contact, courier, and possibly coded public declarations. Even if they did communicate electronically, as you note, the plan would have no effect on foreign ISPs and web sites.
What action is being taken offline in the war against terror?
There has been little talk of how little progress is being made in translating millions of handwritten and printed pages of terrorist documents from Arabic into English. Almost nothing is being done to secure the nation's railways. Only select shipping ports have been secured. The borders and shorelines remain wide open. Homeland Security is receiving only token funding.
Meanwhile, we are as friendly as ever with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia -- source of most of the terrorists. And Iraq has degenerated from a tightly controlled dictatorship into a nest of countless terrorists and militias operating in a lawless land where security and surveillance have become exceedingly difficult.