Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Thursday, June 13, 2013

"We All Laughed When He Sat Down" - Shia LaBeouf, Government Surveillance Whistleblower?

We suspected there was overly intrusive surveillance of suspected terrorists and some criminals, but not everyone. It was just kind of a humorous anecdote a few years ago, but the reality is now exposed. m/r

Shia LaBeouf, Government Surveillance Whistleblower? | Threat Level | Wired.com

  • Who needs NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden when we had Shia LaBeouf telling us what’s up five years ago?
    If you believe the actor’s tale to Jay Leno during an interview to promote his surveillance film Eagle Eye in 2008, the FBI records one in five of all our calls.
    Let me repeat that – one in five of all of our calls.
    In the interview, the actor told the Tonight Show host that the FBI consultant on the film leaked the intelligence to him in a casual conversation.
    “He told me that one in five phone calls that you make are recorded and logged, and I laughed at him and then he played back a phone conversation I’d had two years prior,” LaBeouf told Leno.
    The story has been picked up by news outlets, including the Huffington Post and others as if true.
    But former counter-terrorism FBI agent Thomas Knowles says the revelation is just a tall tale told by an actor trying to promote his movie.
    “I like Shia, he’s a good kid,” Knowles told Wired. “I don’t want to speak for him, but he was just trying to promote his movie. He was what, 21, 22 [years old] back then?”
    Knowles, a former supervisor of the Joint Terrorism Taskforce in Fresno, says on the face of it the claim doesn’t even make sense.
    “Put it this way… you couldn’t take that many conversations. You don’t want that many conversations. You want numbers. So the whole thing about conversations in Shia’s comment just doesn’t make sense if somebody looks at it closely.”
    BUT -go to the link-
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