The answer to the corruption of the Dept of Justice is extreme federalism.
My proposal is the US Attorney General and dept heads are appointed by the Attorneys General of the states, serve at their will and can be summarily fired. No Senior Executive Service, no 'civil service'. Independent from Congress and the Executive branch and granted authority to prosecute anyone in the federal government as well as enforcement of federal laws.
It is a mistake to have all of the prosecutorial powers of the US government subject to the whim of the next presidential popularity poll. Breaking agencies away from the shadow of the God-King will provide stability to the government. It will also increase the likelihood that the USAG will prosecute clear violations of laws in face of political opposition because the games DoJ has played for decades do not help the States.
And note that this change does not require a Constitutional change. The office of US attorney general and the Dept of [In]Justice were created by act of Congress. What Congress maketh, Congress can changeth and taketh away.
It'll end like the Stasi and all the rest of these precocious Panopticons: drowning in information, no way to handle it all. When people start playing the system against them, and filing "frivolous" reports on each other en masse, it's all over. (No, "AI" won't help at all.)
I don't think the Feds are smart enough to feign Mark's disdain for Libertarians. And as far as the electronic surveillance state, going to be interesting supporting a worldwide internet on green energy. Can you say single point of failure. FIB better hope the power doesn't go out.
Just think of all the "manufactured events" (per a comment in the previous post by Shy Boy) that can be ginned up with so much raw material being collected. At a bare minimum, it will make for a very detailed database on who plays for Team Reset and, more importantly, who does not. (No moral hazard there, right?!) It's the stuff of any good surveillance-stater's wet dreams.
Someone, somewhere along the way, convinced someone else that they could capture all of this information and write a query that would help them piece this all together "timely" -- or, as you are aware, someone had a bunch of money left over in their government budget and said, wow!, I've really got to spend this on something, any ideas?! What did happen with those trillions of dollars that Congress so willing gave Obama?!?!?!
Queries, as we recognize, are only as good as the person writing the query and their understanding of what the information is and what is actually available -- and then there is the whole causation/correlation issue. Even with quantum computing, there is no guarantee of the results -- garbage in, garbage out.
Figuring out that someone is going to commit a mass shooting 40 years after the fact is hardly actionable intelligence.
Efficiency is not the point. Intimidation is. And a few spee killings is, in their view, a small price to pay. Just as a year of violent riots by groups that Chris Wray denied the existence of, and with all the after effects we're still experiencing--that was also a small price to pay. In their view.
So I am intimidated. As a result they can expect zero cooperation from me and most of us. As for them taking action against me, GeckoCowboy got it right. With so much information, much of it garbage, piecing it together with their limited intelligence and resources and being obliged to concentrate where there could be some impact means us nonentities can probably skate. The biggest impact is adding to our general distrust of our government, which is growing, and they would have to lock up the majority of American citizens if they want to take action against that.
I misspelled sheer first, so I take the hit on that one.
I don't disagree with you. My point was to show that their "intel" is essentially worthless and they have had to refer now to public available information or snitches.
No doubt it is all meant as a threat or to intimidate us into compliance. Another great product we have now imported from the Chinese -- shades of the Cultural Revolution. Mao would be so proud!
It's far more sophisticated than that I'm afraid, and unless you are taking pains to obscure the hardware address of the computer you are connecting to the internet, which few of us are, they have been collecting and validating and associating all of your online identities, email addresses, login names, pseudonyms on substack, SSN, drivers license,every home address ,, drivers license ,,. Everything they can collect and resolving them all to a single person - you. They have been working on this for over 10 years +, taking data AS IT IS STREAMING through your ISP 's routers or mine and correlating to you and storing it. They know exactly who Hemsley Hawes is and every place I've lived and where I'm sitting right now. They have my texts, my comments my happy birthday emails at work.
Or at least they have data available to them that would tell them any of that.
The only consolation at this time is that the shear magnitude of the information being captured is overwhelming their resources. In that way, that seem to be going after the low hanging fruit -- at least for now. Maybe, at some point, they will just round us all up for convenience sake -- like the Nazis did with the Jews. Is that what all of those FEMA camps are for?
My evidence to their incompetence would be that they have stopped few school shootings or mass shooting events. I suspect if they were more successful, they would be crowing about it. But, maybe they are being quiet because celebrating a success would give away their trade secrets. I would guess, though, that if they are searching literally everywhere for information, they are not able to piece events together as well as they like. And, likely, increasing video evidence shows they were/are a part of some of these events -- sometimes as instigators, sometimes as just observers surveilling the crowd.
It is nice though to see one of our intelligence collection agencies moving back to HUMINT, instead of relying so much on SIGINT. Just the wrong targets!
It goes sour pretty quick when you have unfriendly sources who know what you're up to and are feeding you noise. This is how East Germany ended up, something like 20% of the people were informers but everybody knew it was all garbage.
About 10 years ago I was an IT Director going through an audit by a third party. The auditor was this amiable older gentleman with years and years of IT experience and a thorough knowledge of every domain. At any rate during the course of his engagement reviewing my IT department he let me know he was going to be gone for a few days because he had to travel to DC for a conference. Oh I said. He said yeah, it's really cool stuff , looking at analyzing data IN MOTION, and trying to find ways to associate disparate bits of information like if you have three different email accounts and different logins to Facebook, and Twitter, they're figuring out how to put those all together as the data is streaming in." I don't remember his exact words, and didn't think much of it at the time, just some cool tech engineering, but as the years have passed I have come to believe my guy was helping to advise NSA or some agency with their data processing challenges. That was 10 years ago.
This will only stop when the time comes that people pay a personal cost for this behavior. As long has they can participate in tyranny without fear they will.
The answer to the corruption of the Dept of Justice is extreme federalism.
My proposal is the US Attorney General and dept heads are appointed by the Attorneys General of the states, serve at their will and can be summarily fired. No Senior Executive Service, no 'civil service'. Independent from Congress and the Executive branch and granted authority to prosecute anyone in the federal government as well as enforcement of federal laws.
It is a mistake to have all of the prosecutorial powers of the US government subject to the whim of the next presidential popularity poll. Breaking agencies away from the shadow of the God-King will provide stability to the government. It will also increase the likelihood that the USAG will prosecute clear violations of laws in face of political opposition because the games DoJ has played for decades do not help the States.
And note that this change does not require a Constitutional change. The office of US attorney general and the Dept of [In]Justice were created by act of Congress. What Congress maketh, Congress can changeth and taketh away.
It'll end like the Stasi and all the rest of these precocious Panopticons: drowning in information, no way to handle it all. When people start playing the system against them, and filing "frivolous" reports on each other en masse, it's all over. (No, "AI" won't help at all.)
The 'ol security through obscurity model. Like it. I also like just letting them run out of electricity.
Imagine a link analysis of articles at "Meaning In History"-- the topics, the noms de plume, the comments, and relevant metadata (IP addies, etc).
MIH could almost be thought of as a front for a FBI cyber-citizen honey-trap 😆
I denounce myself.
I don't think the Feds are smart enough to feign Mark's disdain for Libertarians. And as far as the electronic surveillance state, going to be interesting supporting a worldwide internet on green energy. Can you say single point of failure. FIB better hope the power doesn't go out.
Just think of all the "manufactured events" (per a comment in the previous post by Shy Boy) that can be ginned up with so much raw material being collected. At a bare minimum, it will make for a very detailed database on who plays for Team Reset and, more importantly, who does not. (No moral hazard there, right?!) It's the stuff of any good surveillance-stater's wet dreams.
Resistance is Futile.
"the shear magnitude of the information being captured is overwhelming their resources."
I can't imagine why you would say that.
Freudian slip of some kind or just a brain fart? = "sheer"
Someone, somewhere along the way, convinced someone else that they could capture all of this information and write a query that would help them piece this all together "timely" -- or, as you are aware, someone had a bunch of money left over in their government budget and said, wow!, I've really got to spend this on something, any ideas?! What did happen with those trillions of dollars that Congress so willing gave Obama?!?!?!
Queries, as we recognize, are only as good as the person writing the query and their understanding of what the information is and what is actually available -- and then there is the whole causation/correlation issue. Even with quantum computing, there is no guarantee of the results -- garbage in, garbage out.
Figuring out that someone is going to commit a mass shooting 40 years after the fact is hardly actionable intelligence.
Love sarcasm mode, by the way!
Efficiency is not the point. Intimidation is. And a few spee killings is, in their view, a small price to pay. Just as a year of violent riots by groups that Chris Wray denied the existence of, and with all the after effects we're still experiencing--that was also a small price to pay. In their view.
So I am intimidated. As a result they can expect zero cooperation from me and most of us. As for them taking action against me, GeckoCowboy got it right. With so much information, much of it garbage, piecing it together with their limited intelligence and resources and being obliged to concentrate where there could be some impact means us nonentities can probably skate. The biggest impact is adding to our general distrust of our government, which is growing, and they would have to lock up the majority of American citizens if they want to take action against that.
I misspelled sheer first, so I take the hit on that one.
I don't disagree with you. My point was to show that their "intel" is essentially worthless and they have had to refer now to public available information or snitches.
No doubt it is all meant as a threat or to intimidate us into compliance. Another great product we have now imported from the Chinese -- shades of the Cultural Revolution. Mao would be so proud!
It's far more sophisticated than that I'm afraid, and unless you are taking pains to obscure the hardware address of the computer you are connecting to the internet, which few of us are, they have been collecting and validating and associating all of your online identities, email addresses, login names, pseudonyms on substack, SSN, drivers license,every home address ,, drivers license ,,. Everything they can collect and resolving them all to a single person - you. They have been working on this for over 10 years +, taking data AS IT IS STREAMING through your ISP 's routers or mine and correlating to you and storing it. They know exactly who Hemsley Hawes is and every place I've lived and where I'm sitting right now. They have my texts, my comments my happy birthday emails at work.
Or at least they have data available to them that would tell them any of that.
The only consolation at this time is that the shear magnitude of the information being captured is overwhelming their resources. In that way, that seem to be going after the low hanging fruit -- at least for now. Maybe, at some point, they will just round us all up for convenience sake -- like the Nazis did with the Jews. Is that what all of those FEMA camps are for?
My evidence to their incompetence would be that they have stopped few school shootings or mass shooting events. I suspect if they were more successful, they would be crowing about it. But, maybe they are being quiet because celebrating a success would give away their trade secrets. I would guess, though, that if they are searching literally everywhere for information, they are not able to piece events together as well as they like. And, likely, increasing video evidence shows they were/are a part of some of these events -- sometimes as instigators, sometimes as just observers surveilling the crowd.
It is nice though to see one of our intelligence collection agencies moving back to HUMINT, instead of relying so much on SIGINT. Just the wrong targets!
As for the volume of the information captured, not really a problem to store it these days, unless you are not so good with the procurement process:
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/the-fbi-is-looking-for-a-vendor-to-manage-its-five-data-centers/?es_id=c581d997d8
But of course to your point someone needs to input, catalog, and manage associations for all that data, even with a DBMS in place.
It goes sour pretty quick when you have unfriendly sources who know what you're up to and are feeding you noise. This is how East Germany ended up, something like 20% of the people were informers but everybody knew it was all garbage.
About 10 years ago I was an IT Director going through an audit by a third party. The auditor was this amiable older gentleman with years and years of IT experience and a thorough knowledge of every domain. At any rate during the course of his engagement reviewing my IT department he let me know he was going to be gone for a few days because he had to travel to DC for a conference. Oh I said. He said yeah, it's really cool stuff , looking at analyzing data IN MOTION, and trying to find ways to associate disparate bits of information like if you have three different email accounts and different logins to Facebook, and Twitter, they're figuring out how to put those all together as the data is streaming in." I don't remember his exact words, and didn't think much of it at the time, just some cool tech engineering, but as the years have passed I have come to believe my guy was helping to advise NSA or some agency with their data processing challenges. That was 10 years ago.
This will only stop when the time comes that people pay a personal cost for this behavior. As long has they can participate in tyranny without fear they will.