Now, this really makes me feel secure.

So the FBI wants to know my surfing habits... Hmmm. What shall I pack for GITMO.

Stevem D at Booman:
They want your ISP provider to keep records of your internet activities and make them available to the FBI whenever it wishes. FBI Director Mueller said as much yesterday:

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service providers to record their customers' online activities, a move that anticipates a fierce debate over privacy and law enforcement in Washington next year. "Terrorists coordinate their plans cloaked in the anonymity of the Internet, as do violent sexual predators prowling chat rooms," Mueller said in a speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Boston. [...]

The trouble with keeping long term records of our internet activity ready and available for FBI inspection is that we know it won't stop at "terrorists" or "child pornographers" or "drug dealers/users" or any other category of bad people we believe we need our government to keep our eye on. Because it is oh so easy to decide that your political opponents or those who publicly protest current government policies are "terrorists" or "terrorist sympathizers" who bear watching by Big Brother:[...]

You can see where this is going, can't you? Police state, anyone? [...]

Under the Patriot Act, the US Government already require Libraries to disclose records pertaining to the books you check out. Will our cable companies and satellite TV providers be next, asked to keep tabs on what TV shows we watch? How about Netflix or Blockbuster? Will they be asked to retain customer records on what movies we rent? Will our local merchants be asked to keep tabs on the groceries we buy, the prescriptions we use, and the home improvement supplies we purchase? Don't bet against it.

And "Terrorism" will be the universal excuse for the further diminution of our few remaining rights and civil liberties. Just as it was the excuse to eliminate the writ of habeas corpus and permit torture on anyone the President or his delegated lackeys deem to be an "enemy combatant" under the recently signed Military Commissions Act.

We are headed for very bad times people. They have been bad enough the last 6 years, but they are about to get much, much worse. Don't believe me? Then try believing your own eyes. What powers haven't Bush administration officials attempted to abrogate solely to themselves whenever the opportunity presented itself? Can't think of any? What a Big Effing Surprise, eh?

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