San Diego Sheriff keeping drone use top-secret?

U.S. law enforcement is greatly expanding its use of domestic drones for surveillance. Routine aerial surveillance would profoundly change the character of public life in America. Rules must be put in place to ensure that we can enjoy the benefits of this new technology without bringing us closer to a “surveillance society” in which our every move is monitored, tracked, recorded, and scrutinized by the government. Drone manufacturers are also considering offering police the option of arming these remote-controlled aircraft with (nonlethal for now) weapons like rubber bullets, Tasers, and tear gas. Read the ACLU’s full report on domestic drones here.

Congress has ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to change airspace rules to make it much easier for police nationwide to use domestic drones, but the law does not include badly needed privacy protections. The ACLU recommends the following safeguards:

USAGE LIMITS: Drones should be deployed by law enforcement only with a warrant, in an emergency, or when there are specific and articulable grounds to believe that the drone will collect evidence relating to a specific criminal act.

DATA RETENTION: Images should be retained only when there is reasonable suspicion that they contain evidence of a crime or are relevant to an ongoing investigation or trial.

POLICY: Usage policy on domestic drones should be decided by the public’s representatives, not by police departments, and the policies should be clear, written, and open to the public.

ABUSE PREVENTION & ACCOUNTABILITY: Use of domestic drones should be subject to open audits and proper oversight to prevent misuse.

WEAPONS: Domestic drones should not be equipped with lethal or non-lethal weapons.

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Dealt a bad hand - Oh Zee

I've been told that you'll neva be shit.
Cause what we already know,
is you ain't willing to do shows.
Your too busy runnin around
chasin twaff's and nasty hoes.
Compared to ya'll, I look like a pro
My Swagg is an aura that glows.
Halfstackin, Actin like you Mackin
with a Shotgun, thats loaded,
Ski Mask and you still ain't blastin
Today there is no time for relaxin'
My capital Returns over double
all while ya'll still askin
"how you doin it,"
If you really wanna know, I'm taxin
Because Time is our only Asset,
jus look at how fast its passin'
Limit the list, Cut off those
tellin lies and laughin,
but unable to take a simple
concept and try graspin.
They'll keep talkin trash
until they are handcuffed
and locked inside of a trash bin.

Oh Zee 10/8/2012

The truth is out there, we just need to look for it!

Dear Gregory,

As Ben Franklin stated, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Sadly, the statists in Washington, D.C. keep choosing to take away more and more of our liberties for some bureaucrat's vision of so-called "safety."

In today's world, "security" really means handing over the last bits of freedom to Big Government's prying eyes.

Just recently, the Senate Armed Services Committee called for drones returning from Afghanistan to be used "freely and routinely" in U.S. airspace.

Government agencies are training drones by tracking civilian cars over American cities.

Law enforcement agencies are buying them up by the dozen – happy to let the spying begin.

The Congressional Research Service states domestic drones could be equipped "with facial recognition or soft biometric recognition, which can recognize and track individuals based on attributes such as height, age, gender, and skin color."

More than 30,000 are expected to be flying across the United States in the near future.

This isn't something out of George Orwell's 1984. It's America in 2012.

And it's all designed so politicians can line the pockets of their crony capitalist pals – while you and I pay the price with our tax dollars and our freedom.

I'm not telling you all this to dishearten you – although I understand it may be discouraging to look the facts straight in the face.

I'm telling you this because these are the battles you and I can't ignore if we are going to maintain our last vestiges of freedom as Americans – and regain what we've lost.

After all, in recent years, we've witnessed the passage of the so-called "Patriot" Act, which allows the government to wiretap and spy on American citizens.

We've seen the passage of the NDAA - allowing the government to lock up and detain American citizens indefinitely without so much as a warrant.

And we see the TSA routinely groping elderly women and children at airports.

Ten years after its creation, a congressional report was issued saying the TSA was "bloated and ineffective."

More than 25,000 security breaches have occurred under its watch.

Our liberties are being stolen from us daily – and for NOTHING.

So what's next? What else will the security statists demand of us in order to finally make us "safe and secure"?

"Black boxes" in every car?

Cameras on every street corner? In every house?

RFID tracking chips implanted in every man, woman, and child – all designed to ensure we're "safe"?

So government bureaucrats can ensure we don't smoke the wrong thing?

To ensure our sodas aren't too big or our cheeseburgers too greasy?

How much liberty will politicians steal before the American people wake up and say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!"?

I believe you and I are at a tipping point.

More and more Americans ARE getting fed up.

Senator Rand Paul has already introduced legislation to get the out-of-control TSA screeners out of our airports.

And he recently introduced a bill that would stop the government from arbitrarily using drones to spy on Americans by forcing it to obey the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

But more attacks on our Fourth Amendment rights are coming at the American people full-speed ahead.

It's up to you and me to stop them.

You and I must be prepared to take on the statists and defend our freedoms.

That's exactly what Campaign for Liberty has been doing - and will continue to do - in the coming weeks and months.

Our goal is to reawaken men and women from coast to coast and rally them to defend liberty before it's too late.

Because it's not too late.

Not yet.

The free soul of America still exists.

But it's up to you and me to create a grassroots fire that no politician in his or her right mind would dare ignore.

In Liberty,


John Tate
President

P.S. The Big Government statists are wasting no time further eroding our Fourth Amendment rights.

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Mitt Romney Campaign Questioned By GOP Activists

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Mitt Romney Campaign Questioned By GOP Activists

By KASIE HUNT 09/15/12 05:03 PM ET

WASHINGTON -- Republican activists are incredulous: Why can't Republican Mitt Romney seem to break open a tight race with President Barack Obama given the nation's sluggish economy and conservative enthusiasm to beat the Democrat?

"He ought to be killing Obama, and he's clearly not doing that," said 32-year-old R.J. Robinson, one of the thousands of activists attending the annual Values Voters Summit this weekend. "He should be doing better."

Added Mike Garner, a 27-year-old hawking "Reagan was right" buttons at the meeting: "If Romney loses this election, the party really needs to do some soul-searching."

Their sentiments were echoed in interviews with more than a dozen GOP activists and social conservative leaders who attended the annual gathering focused on social and cultural issues and sponsored by the Family Research Council. The summit was filled with rhetoric meant to fire up the party's base voters.

Romney needs them to turn out in force at the polls in November and, between now and then, to convince others to do the same through extensive get-out-the-vote grassroots canvassing in swing-voting states. To energize them, dozens of high-profile conservatives – including former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor – used their speeches to paint the 2012 race as a transformational moment in the country's history and insist that the president is turning the nation into a place its founders wouldn't recognize.

Energy was high inside the hotel ballroom where the luminaries spoke.

But frustration with Romney coursed through the hallways, where groups like the National Organization for Marriage and Americans United for Life promoted their policy positions and conservative pundits hawked their books.



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Governments asking Google to remove more content

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. authorities are leading the charge as governments around the world pepper Google with more demands to remove online content and turn over information about people using its Internet search engine, YouTube video site and other services.

Google Inc. provided a glimpse at the onslaught of government requests in a summary posted on its website late Sunday. The breakdown covers the final six months of last year. It's the fifth time that Google has released a six-month snapshot of government requests since the company engaged in a high-profile battle over online censorship with China's communist leadership in 2010.

The country-by-country capsule illustrates the pressure Google faces as it tries to obey the disparate laws in various countries while trying to uphold its commitment to free expression and protect the sanctity its more than 1 billion users' personal information.

Governments zero in on Google because its services have become staples of our digital-driven lives. Besides running the Internet's most dominant search engine, Google owns the most watched video site in YouTube, operates widely used blogging and email services and distributes Android, the top operating system on mobile phones. During the past year, Google has focused on expanding Plus, a social networking service, that boasts more than 170 million users.

Many of the requests are legitimate attempts to enforce laws governing hot-button issues ranging from personal privacy to hate speech.

But Google says it increasingly fields requests from government agencies trying to use their power to suppress political opinions and other material they don't like.

"It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect — Western democracies not typically associated with censorship," Dorothy Chou, Google's senior policy analyst, wrote in a Sunday blog post.

That comment may have been aimed at the U.S., where police prosecutors, courts and other government agencies submitted 187 requests to remove content from July through December last year, more than doubling from 92 requests from January through June.

Only Brazil's government agencies submitted more content removal requests with a total of 194 during the final half of last year. But that figure was down from 224 requests in Brazil during the first half of the year.

Brazil's requests covered a more narrow range of content than the U.S. demands. The submissions from Brazil covered 554 different pieces of content while the U.S. requests sought to censor nearly 6,200 items.

Google usually gets a lot of removal requests from Brazil because it runs a 8-year-old social network called Orkut that is a popular forum in that country. Orkut gets so little usage in most other countries that Google took another stab at social networking by creating Plus last year.

The U.S. requests included 117 court orders, including one that instructed Google to remove 218 search results linking to websites containing content alleged to be defamatory. Google said it censored about 25 percent of the search results covered in that court order.

This report marks the first time that Google has quantified how many of the removal requests came through court orders.

Google wound up at least partially complying with 42 percent of the content removal requests in the U.S. and 54 percent in the Brazil.

Other governments frequently reaching out to Google included Germany (103 content-removal requests, down 18 percent from the previous six-month period), and India (101 requests, a 49 percent increase).



At least four countries — Bolivia, the Czech Republic, Jordan and Ukraine — asked Google to remove content for the first time during the final six months of last year.

Google's censorship report doesn't include China and Iran because those countries deploy filters to block content that their governments have deemed objectionable.

Governments also are leaning Google more frequently for information about people suspected of breaking the law or engaging in other mischief.

The U.S. government filed 6,321 requests with Google for user data during the final six months of the year. That was far more than any other country, according to Google, and a 6 percent increase from the previous six months. Google complied with 93 percent of the U.S. requests for user data, encompassing more than 12,200 accounts.

U.S. authorities lodge some of the user data requests on behalf of other countries covered by legal assistance agreements and other rules of cooperation.

India accounted for the second highest volume of user data requests with 2,207, a 27 percent increase from the previous six-month period. Google complied with two-thirds of India's requests, which targeted more than 3,400 Google users.

All told, Google received a more than 18,250 requests for user data during the final six months of last year, a 16 percent increase from the first half of the year.
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