Well, if you THOUGHT your electronic mail was safe from the prying eyes of the guvmint….think again. Here comes the “Email Police”.
So here’s the basics (full article here):
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has drafted a substitute bill for the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which was originally written in 1986 long before things like electronic archiving and cloud storage. The update, which will be under review next Thursday, modernizes rules for police seeking to obtain private email for investigative purposes — rules that had been surprisingly lax.
And in a nutshell, here’s what they’ll be able to do:
“Leahy’s rewritten bill would allow more than 22 agencies — including the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications Commission — to access Americans’ e-mail, Google Docs files, Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct message without a search warrant,” wrote CNET’s Declan McCullagh.
Oh yeah, that little Constitutional RIGHT called “due process” as well as “no illegal search and seizure” well we’re from the government and we don’t have to obey those pesky things that we don’t like. That’s EXACTLY the attitude that Leahy and his PROGRESSIVE co-conspirators are seemingly taking with this bill re-write. Folks, if you cannot (or worse, will not) see what this band of carpet baggers is doing to our country then personally IMHO you don’t deserve to be a citizen of this country. Now that they’ve got another four years to trash the Constitution, overthrow “We The People” and put the economy on a one-way trip to Hell….the America I grew up knowing AND DEFENDING has become something of an anathema.
Want to fight this?
Welcome to the world of encrypted email. Darth, Vicar, anyone else, just contact the Southern Command HQ and we can get the Cybersecurity team to assist in getting you set up. We have a tested, proven package that we can put in place that will thwart any prying eyes. Personally, your General uses this setup for his communiques and given that my email is protected with an encryption algorithm that is somewhere in the neighborhood of FOUR TIMES that of current Military Strength™ specs, I’m confident that the guvmint eggheads would be pounding away for quite some time trying to read my emails. Can you say millennia? Yeah, that sort of stuff.
But, you might want to get on board quick. This is a limited time offer.
ThatIsAll™
UPDATE:
This just in.
Out of the fire…back into the frying pan.
Wylie East 70, Sulphur Springs 33
#12 Oklahoma 50, at West Virginia 49
at #14 Nebraska 38, UMinnesota 14
at Wisconsin 14, Ohio State 21
Liberty 33, at VMI 14
at Dallas 23, Cleveland 20 (OT)
And Sulphur Springs is banished to high school football purgatory for another year.
(Y’all realize, of course, that they’re on my shit list only until Skip starts playing for teh varsity, right?  Then they’re a permanent fixture in the PFW.  Hell – they’ll prolly take Heights’ place, if the bozos at the FWISD keep Todd Whitten around.)
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Great.  Now  West Virginia decides to show up.
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Bucky:  What’d I Tell Ya?
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Husker-Gopher:  Yawn.
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Second place in the Big South.  Good job at Liberty, Turner Gill.
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If the Cowgirlz suck like this against Cleveland, for Cthulhu’s sake, what’s gonna happen tomorrow?
This week:  5-1.  Overall:  49-26.
Quick turnaround, as we’ll come back tomorrow and do this all again.
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