Rosenzweig Now Chairman of DHS Privacy Board 214
An anonymous reader writes "Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer and prominent proponent of the Pentagon's controversial Total Information Awareness project, has been
appointed the first chairman of the Department of Homeland Security's privacy board. This follows the appointment of an executive of Gator to the board. Lee Tien, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that, rather than viewing protection of privacy as priority, Rosenzweig 'tends to view privacy as something to be circumvented.' Are the foxes guarding the henhouse when it comes to government and privacy?"
Paul Rosenzweig for beginners (Score:4, Informative)
On the Patriot Act:
The 9/11 Commission has emphasized the importance of the Patriot Act and considers it to be an essential weapon in the global war on terrorism. Prior to September 11, there was a wall of legal and regulatory policies that prevented effective sharing of information between the intelligence and law enforcement communities. Read More [mithuro.com]
Paul Rosenzweig On Transparency:
After all, why do we seek transparency in the first instance? Not for its own sake. Without need, transparency is little more than voyeurism. Rather, the reason for transparency is oversight - Read More [mithuro.com]
if you don't like it, do something about it. (Score:5, Informative)
Might be a good idea to contact your senators [senate.gov] and representatives [house.gov] too.
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huh? (Score:2, Informative)
Oh really? Cause that is a complete bull-shit statement. We've mainly operated at a deficit since 1960 - but not always. Either way, trade deficit isn't the only way to measure the economy.
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Additionally, the Bush administration is not trying to shut the borders
Sure, the Canadian border.
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Pop-quiz: who was Germany's top trading partner in 1938?
Prescott Bush?
Re:I am really worried (Score:2, Informative)
The current administration has no respect for laws and the constitution. They've said as much.
When have they said as much? They seem to have tremendous respect for the law . . . they simply interpret it different than many other people. If they didn't respect it, they would even bother use try to interpret it.
We are going to see Americans having as much trouble getting back into the States as foreigners do. (ie. you won't be able to get back in from Canada without a passport.)
I hardly think that they need for a passport in hand is equivalent to what foreigners go through when coming to the US. An a US citizen, you don't need a visa (most foreigners do), and you don't need to fingerprinted and photographed like all non-resident foreign nationals do when entering the USA.
American trade is going to dry up because nobody will want to do business with us.
Again, paranoid delusions . . . the US economy is approximately 1/3 the world economy. I don't think that any country can ignore that. If countries don't want to do business with us, then why are Indonesia, Jordan, Australia, and others pursuing free trade agreements with the US? Why are we running the biggest trade defecit in history? Surely the record trade defecit is indicative that other countries want to do more, not less business with the USA.
Basically, this paranoia and disrespect for the law isn't much different than the death of Roman democracy.
Uhh, Roman generals marched on Rome multiple times. In the later years of the Roman Empire, Roman soldiers swore alliegance to their generals, not to Rome. Eventually, Roman generals were responsible for soldiers' pensions (instead of Rome). I don't see any of this happening. The US military still swears to uphold the constitution, pensions are paid for by the state, and the military still answers to Congressional oversight. In the US, the people are still in control.Prescott Bush! (Score:2, Informative)
and?
Prescott Bush!!!
Whenever I post and that name is included I get labeled a troll! Must be a filter or something? A perl script?
Re:if you don't like it, do something about it. (Score:4, Informative)
One word: ACLU [aclu.org]
Proud dues-paying member since 2003.
One of the few organizations with the clout to truly (and positively) influence policy when it comes to these matters. You can be a member for less than $50/year. The min membership might even be half that much, IIRC.
Something has been wrong, for a very long time... (Score:4, Informative)
"more privacy in the form of total surveillance" --> HUAC, McCarthy et al.?
"government transparency in the form of increased classification of documents, and high moral standards in the form of flagrant House ethics rule violations" --> Nixon?
"smaller government in the form of increased federal spending" AND "isolationist foreign policy in the form of overseas force projection" --> Reagan?
American conservatives have this wonderful way of completely ignoring their own philosophy.
Americans Funded Nazi War Machine (Score:4, Informative)
Good point. Indeed, it's worse than that -- much worse.
Who funded the Nazi war machine? Prescott Bush [wikipedia.org], among others. Prescott and his partners made a ton of money banking for the Nazis -- investing in the Wermacht -- throughout the 1930s. Not illegal at the time. A brutal demonstration of man's inhumanity to man, perhaps; but not illegal at the time.
Herr Bush, of course, is father and grandfather, respectively, to two generations of American Presidents (and one generation of CIA Director [google.com]).
See also From Hitler to MX [google.com], documenting other examples of 1930's American investment in the Nazi war machine (and how, after the war, American-back ventures survived unbombed, while their competitors where destroyed). Companies involved include General Electric (sold advanced submarine tech for U-boats), and one or more (I forget which) of the big oil firms.
War is -- dammit -- good for business.
-kgj
Re:Are the foxes guarding the henhouse? (Score:4, Informative)