and you thought that the Patriot Act was a threat?

[melm00se]

Walmart and DHS join forces:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmDjc24jYw&feature=related

There's an app for that
http://www.examiner.com/blogosphere-buzz-in-national/patriotapp-creates-a-high-tech-snitch-network

Do I really need to list TSA issues?

The 1st 2 are encouraging a culture of "watch your fellow citizens" and/or "report your fellow citizens"...starting to sound familiar?

The Patriot Act - Republicans
the above 2 - Democrats

Starting to think that both parties would absolutely revel in it if the USA went from a representative republic to a totalitarian state.

[wtmusic]

1. "Ms. Napolitano, I saw Wal-Mart managers locking employees in the store!

Is they terrorists?"

:patriot:

[melm00se]

3. I can't wait

until I buy:

- ammo (sorry but no one is even close when it comes to availability of my ammo of choice)
- fertilizer (can make a bomb you know)
- Coleman camp stove fuel or small propane tanks
or
- Godforbid a *gasp* firearm.

Helicopters overhead, SWAT teams in the parking lot backed up with armored vehicles.

[IDemo]

2. As I posted on the Raw Story coverage of this story

Soon, we'll all be wearing green jumpsuits and doing mandatory morning calisthenics.

[sarcasmo]

5. Yep and just like when I was in the military if you can't make the run they will make you run again.

This country has morphed into one scary place to live.

[ixion]

4. Actually, the unPATRIOTic Act was passed under a Dem majority,

and sponsored (and authored, I believe) by then Dem Joe LIEberman.

And was, in fact, the enabling document for DHS, TSA, etc.

[jotsy]

6. That's not all this committee is up to...

The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010.

<http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-3480>

Not real crazy about the timing and how it ironically coincides with the FCC coming forward with a policy proposal on net neutrality, which appears to have been designed to net some profits for familiar an unpopular corporate faces.

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V3Rjqv1R4>