As the government implements it's new declared power to enter into the
private lives of everyday Americans in almost every form, Google fights a
lone battle against the government. The government contends that the
information sought is to prove children access pornography in spite of site
and software controls.

The matter revolves around the supposed need by the government to access
the search engine data bases for information to investigate and/or prosecute
supposed porno sites and users. Supposedly, the government can't do as any
internet user could do, and search for these sites on it's own. It appears,
however, the government actually wants the user's addresses rather than the
sites.
For seven months Google has attempted to thwart this intrusion into it's
privately own data base.

U.S. District Judge James Ware (sitting judge on the case) prepares to
issue orders to Google for random government access to Google's data base of
search requests.
This judge should be extremely careful in the wording of this Order.
Inroads into the privacy of onliners, claimed for the most part by
government as non-existent, should be the highest concern.

Gidari (one of Google's attorneys) said the content of certain queries
often contains sensitive information about finances, Social Security numbers
and sexual preferences. That would, of course, be true for adults which may
pay for access to certain sites. If they are adults then what they access
should be the concern, not the user.

The judge asked whether Google wished to turn over site addresses or search
requests, as if either would not, in some form, give the government
information which it could not obtain on it's own.

All the other major search engines have already turned over some of the
information sought by the government, though they claim they have not
compromised their users security.

Here we find one more piece of the"train of circumstances" in this on going
change in America, from the land of the free, to the land of the monitored
and controlled.

- posted by Maurice @ Wednesday, March 15, 2006 0 comments

The countdown continues for presentation of the questions to the Supreme
Court.
There are 56 days (as of 03-09-06) left to post them to the court.

RECENT EVENTS

While the nation was directed to the Dubai Ports World deal and it's
ramifications, Congress managed to pass the Patriot Act provisions
questioned as intrusions into the private lives of Americans, making them
permanent Law.

As of this signing, Americans have massively limited rights due to
supposed security concerns, while the government has massively extended
authority in this nation.

Regretfully, these "Patriot Laws" will likely NOT be challenged for a
number of years.

During this time, Americans WILL become accustomed to these restricted
rights, and forget what they lost, supposedly for "national security", while
PROTECTING the peoples' rights. What rights would those be? Travel has been
restricted, communications restricted, property rights removed, free speech
muzzled, ...

We already have armed guards at our airports, bus terminals, subways, and
other transportation areas. We also have scanning, screening, and bodily
searches. Newer versions, supposedly less intrusive, are being developed, to
replace the "physical searches". All this sounds "reasonable" in this
supposed "terrorist environment". Yet we may have failed to realize the
prison which has essentially been created.

Moreover, if one has been keeping track, in the background, the
governments have been modifying or destroying government materials which are
claimed as "potential security risks". The actual effect, is that these are
the modified/false documents historians will use as the supposed ACTUAL
documents of this nation. Though we may "think" we know what the government
is doing presently, future investigations and history will use these
documents as the supposed "evidence". Adding in the "missing/destroyed"
documents, and no one will ever be able to factually review American
history.

Based upon this, it is not a stretch of imagination or a "conspiracy
theory", that Americans will never know the actual truth of this time
period. There have been nations which have done this before, but never this
completely. Most of those that did were overthrown and the actual history
taken from other nations historical documents. That will NOT be available to
America or it's history.

- posted by Maurice @ Thursday, March 09, 2006 0 comments