How Dumb Is Your Government?
From The Smoking Gun, a blogger derails a year-long Department of Homeland Security undercover operation targeting prospective "sex tourists," and notes that she should have known it was a government operation:
The computer programmer also noticed that the "Precious Treasure Holiday Company" site appeared to have been designed using a 2003 version of Microsoft's FrontPage. In retrospect, she remarked, the use of such outdated software should have tipped her to the fact that the site was a U.S. government production.
Those here who think government protects us, raise your hand. No, your hand.
Well, yeah, but I'd be bitching if they'd spent tax money for the latest and greatest web development tools, too.
"Homeland Security" is really blossoming into a full service nightmare.
(I won't mention Orwell. I won't mention Orwell. I won't mention Orwell.)
My generation and the next are going to be very ashamed that this Orwellian monstrosity took root on our watch... As if America were about "land" rather than ideas.
(Fuck. Couldn't help myself.)
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at September 30, 2011 12:06 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/09/30/how_dumb_is_you.html#comment-2523101">comment from Crid [CridComment at gmail]Crid: Don't mention Orwell.
We have to stop this. The sick thing is, what's not secure is our civil liberties. I'm working my connections like mad to try to get this op-ed that makes that point, and others, into some venue where it'll get to a lot of eyeballs.
Amy Alkon
at September 30, 2011 12:26 AM
Why is the Department of Homeland Security running this operation?
This is the purview of the FBI. Sexual tourism is not terrorizing for anyone but the poor child being abused.
Jim P. at September 30, 2011 5:30 AM
I despise TSA agents and pedophiles.
BarSinister at September 30, 2011 6:29 AM
> what's not secure is our civil liberties.
Yes, and this is so obviously true. (And why I stole the G.O. thing from Hitch.)
These people, like Napolitano, are so obviously reprehensible, that I just can't understand how they aren't laughed out of public life.
Maybe Orwell is adored because people have always known, in the back of their minds, even during the best parts of the 20th century, that his literary branch would soon be growing much more fruit.
I tried to find a book about audacity once, an overview. Failed.
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at September 30, 2011 10:38 AM
Why did you repeat yourself BarSinister?
Abersouth at September 30, 2011 1:55 PM
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