The Minuteman
Statue.
The head-line in
USA Today reads-
Americans rising up against government
[Excerpts of Battles
we've won so far.]
1.
First, in response to widespread
protests last week, the Department of Homeland Security canceled
plans to build a nationwide license plate database. Many local
police departments already use license-plate readers that track every car as
it passes traffic signals or pole-mounted cameras. Specially equipped police
cars even track cars parked on the street or even in driveways.
The DHS put
out a bid request for a system that would have gone national, letting the
federal government track millions of people's comings and goings just as it
tracks data about every phone call we make. But the proposal was
suddenly withdrawn
last week, with the unconvincing explanation that it was all a mistake.
I'm inclined to agree with TechDirt's Tim Cushing, who wrote:
"The most plausible explanation is that someone up top at the DHS or ICE
suddenly realized that publicly calling for bids on a nationwide surveillance
system while nationwide surveillance systems are being hotly debated was ... a
horrible idea."
2.
On Friday, after more public outrage,
the Federal
Communications Commission withdrew a plan to "monitor" news coverage at not
only broadcast stations, but also at print publications that the FCC has no
authority to regulate... Many folks
in and out of the media found it Orwellian.
How this program appeared was, like
the DHS program, a bit of a mystery: FCC Commissioner Ajit
Pai said: "This has never been put to an FCC vote; it was just announced."
But the blowback was sufficient to stop it for
now.
3. Meanwhile, in Connecticut a
massive new gun-registration scheme is also facing civil disobedience. As J.D.
Tuccille reports:
"Three years ago, the Connecticut legislature estimated there were
372,000 rifles in the state of the sort that might be classified as 'assault
weapons,' and 2 million plus high-capacity magazines. ... But by the
close of registration at the end of 2013, state officials received around 50,000
applications for 'assault weapon' registrations, and 38,000 applications for
magazines."
Patriots, when we
fight back using the tools we have HERE we WIN!
KEEP USING THE TOOLS
AND
KEEP FIGHTING
BACK!
"Disobedience to tyrants is Obedience
to God." -Benjamin Franklin.
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