Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror
Not content with going through your phone records illegally it appears that Bush is also going through American's bank details as well, under a secret programme initiated after 9-11.
Of course the usual caveats have been added claiming that this programme is only being used to trace Al Qaeda money, but if you believe that - after the same lies were told about the illegal wiretapping scheme that turned out to be far more invasive than admitted- then I can sell you London Bridge.
The right to privacy in the United States appears to have completely vanished. And worse than that, there appears to be a large part of the population who have willingly sacrificed their rights.The program, however, is a significant departure from typical practice in how the government acquires Americans' financial records. Treasury officials did not seek individual court-approved warrants or subpoenas to examine specific transactions, instead relying on broad administrative subpoenas for millions of records from the cooperative, known as Swift.
That access to large amounts of confidential data was highly unusual, several officials said, and stirred concerns inside the administration about legal and privacy issues.
This is, of course, no real surprise as the Bush administration has encouraged a climate of fear for the populace to live under, by constantly moving the levels up and down on their terror alert scale literally telling you how fearful you should feel today.
Of course there are historical precedents for this type of behaviour.
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Hermann Goering.
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