national security

US No-Fly List Doubles in One Year

by on February 3, 2012 @ 2:18 pm · 0 comments

in Imperialism, Police Statism, War

According to this AP report.

Before long we will all be grounded except for privileged members of the Republicrat National Socialist Party, who will also have special Party stores that carry Eastern goods not available to mundanes.

Is this the change we were told we hoped for? Do you really expect the next Republican president to cut back on the warfare-police state?

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Rothbard’s Button

by on February 10, 2011 @ 7:47 am · 1 comment

in Anti-Statism, Humor, Technology

All this recent talk of legislating and implementing an internet “kill switch” is being hyped by statists in the name of national security. Oh, just imagine the horrors if some if some malicious internet terrorists hax0r open the Hoover Dam floodgates, possibly killing thousands!

I readily agree with this FUD; but I disagree with the implementation. In order to protect the “national security interest,” the correct solution is to put not private, but all government, resources behind an internet kill switch! This way when some script kiddies start launching NORAD missiles, Obama can blister his thumb pressing the government kill switch that Murray Rothbard could only dream about.

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Close the Washington Monument?

by on December 3, 2010 @ 1:56 pm · 1 comment

in Police Statism

Bruce Schneier talks sensibly about how US politicians and others are over-reacting to “the terrorists.”  Countries with real terrorism problems haven’t had to adopt absurd “security measures” that trample civil rights.  Americans need to get a grip.

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Aphoristic Observation: The Internet Kill Switch

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché June 27, 2010

Clearly, in times of emergency, the internet, in order to be protected, must be destroyed. Cross-posted at Is-Ought GAP.

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