"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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But now the gauntlet is really down.

Everything. They have EVERY call and EVERY Internet communication.

My newest computer has 2 GIGABYTES of RAM and a 250 GIGABYTE harddrive. I still almost faint to see those numbers, since I started on PCs in the 1980s, back when they had 625K RAM (my first Kaypro). But I'm a small fry. The government can bulk-order 1,000,000 big harddrives and just stack them up on shelves. Memory has become ridiculously cheap. They can now easily store EVERYTHING.

The United States may become the first society where every last person is officially classified as a criminal.

1. I hope somebody with the technical skills will immediately launch a www.thankyouqwest.org site.

2. I am really, really scared to have just witnessed the complete vanishing of this story from every single news service's headlines - even USA Today's, as accessed through Yahoo. (It still appears on their direct URL, but it was "updated" about an hour after it first appeared - I haven't yet checked for changes.)

3. It occurs to me that if this madness remains unchallenged by anybody outside the blogosphere, the republicans will soon realize that all they need do to retain power is feign outrage and impose benign  checks and controls. I mean, the democrats and the mainstream media aren't even doing the poses...

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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There is a wide spread of locations: New Zealand - Australia - Japan 2x - China 3x - Bahrein - Qatar - Israel - Egypt ...

One can check the page visited and find --
ISRAEL Haifa :: Google Stef Wertheimer http://www.boomantri...d=2006/5/9/628/64382
BAHREIN :: Google Letter Ahmadinejad http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2006/5/9/45640/52761
QATAR Al Dawhah Doha :: Source unknown ... perhaps U.S. CentCom?

● Scaring You Shitless - In Literature's Name

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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So I will call Salazar AGAIN, and AGAIN his office will say that he has no position.  AGAIN he will be doing research and AGAIN he will be waiting for more facts.  Until the moment he caves, that is.

And AGAIN I will hang up the phone and teach my dog some new words.

This ain't 'security', it's psy-ops.
An entire nation is intended to sit still like the three monkeys: neither hearing, seeing nor speaking 'evil', as we're entrusted to define the term for ourselves while entombed in paranoia.
Just eat your propaganda, slave away for your corporate overlords & shut up, will you?

'Right to life' indeed.

A foolish vision, nonetheless. Can't be done.

"Maybe so, but we really ought to look at our priorities in the intelligence community. Why, for instance, are the FBI's computers still incapable of conducting an embedded search, yet the NSA has a system with the sophistication, depth, and complexity to collect, analyze, and store our every phone call?

I, for one, would feel much safer if FBI agents could search for both 'bomb' and 'death to Americans' at the same time."


"Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth." -- Gore Vidal

Assholes!  Assholes!  Gutless Fucking Assholes!!!

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Verizon Telephone Company Customer Privacy

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For more than a century, customers have counted on Verizon's telephone companies to respect and protect the privacy of information we obtain in the normal course of providing service. While we are working hard to serve you in new and exciting ways, our commitment to protecting your privacy remains as strong as ever.

Your Privacy is Our Priority
Verizon has strict policies governing employee access to customer records. We access customer accounts, records or reports for authorized business purposes only. We educate our employees about their obligation to safeguard customer information and telephone calls, and we hold them accountable for their actions.

Privacy is a priority for Verizon when we develop new products and services. Verizon conducts a privacy review, which includes consumer input, as part of its product development process. We inform customers about any privacy implications of new products and services we introduce.

The Information We Obtain, and How We Use It
Verizon obtains information about customers that helps us to provide service, and we use that information for business purposes only.

For example: We need to know your name, address and the services you buy from us. When you call us, a service representative refers to your customer record to serve you better. It also may be useful for us to know about your telephone bill, your calling patterns, and whether you have special needs. We may use that kind of information to offer you the most effective services for your particular needs.

If Verizon enters into a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, a customer's personally identifiable information will, in most instances, be transferred as a part of the transaction.

Or we may use information in our records to protect customers, employees or property, for instance, to investigate fraud or harassment.

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You should know that when you speak with us at Verizon, a supervisor might listen in on that call. Supervisors listen in only to help train employees and ensure that we provide you with accurate information and high-quality customer service.

Disclosure of Information Outside Verizon
As a rule, Verizon will notify you and give you the opportunity to "opt out" when we disclose telephone customer information outside of Verizon. In fact, we generally keep our records of the services you buy and the calls you make private, and will not ordinarily disclose this information to outside parties without your permission. However, we do release customer information without involving you if disclosure is required by law or to protect the safety of customers, employees or property. This is further explained below.

Examples of your control over the disclosure of information:
You tell us the telephone listings you want to include in our directories and in directory assistance. You also may choose to have a non-published number, or a non-listed number, or to exclude your address from your listing.

We may compile lists of names, addresses, and telephone numbers from our published White Pages directories and provide the lists to qualified companies that are conducting product promotions. Non-published and non-listed numbers will not be included in these lists, and we will remove other customers from these lists by request.

All customers in areas where Caller ID services are available have the ability to block the display of their phone numbers and names. (Note that Caller ID blocking does not prevent the transmission of your phone number when you dial certain business numbers, including 911, or 800, 888, 877, and 900 numbers.)
Examples where disclosure is required by law or to protect the safety of customers, employees or property:

When you dial 911, information about your location may be transmitted automatically to a public safety agency. Certain information about your long distance calls is transmitted to your long distance company for billing purposes. Verizon also is required by law to give competitive local exchange carriers access to its customer databases for purposes of serving their customers, to exchange credit information with other carriers, and to provide listings (other than certain non-published and non-listed information) to directory publishers.

Verizon must disclose information, as necessary, to comply with court orders or subpoenas. Verizon also will share information to protect its rights or property and to protect users of its services and other carriers from fraudulent, abusive or unlawful use of services.

We may, where permitted by law, provide information to credit bureaus, or provide information and/or sell receivables to collection agencies, to obtain payment for Verizon billed products and services.

Verizon also occasionally uses contractors to do work for the company. These contractors have the same obligations as our regular employees concerning customer information.

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We may use this information, without further authorization by you, to offer you: (i) services of the type you already purchase from us, and (ii) the full range of products and services available from Verizon and other Verizon companies that may be different from the type of services you currently buy from us. In addition to local telephone services, Verizon and other Verizon company services include long distance (where authorized), wireless, and Internet services. A more complete description of our companies and service offerings is available on this Web site. Use of your information will permit us to offer you a package of services tailored to your specific needs. Without further authorization by you, we may also share your information with other Verizon companies with whom you already have an existing service relationship.

No action by you is necessary to permit us to use your information to offer you services that may be different from the type of services you currently buy from us. However, prior to using your information for the first time, we will notify you by mail or through your account executive, and you will have 30 days to tell us, using the toll free number mentioned in our notice, if you do not want us to use your information to offer services different from the type of services you currently buy from us. After the 30 days has expired, Verizon may begin using your information to offer services different from those you currently purchase from us unless you have notified us that we may not use it for this purpose. At any time after the 30 days, however, you can change your decision by using the toll free number. Your decision will remain effective until you change it.

If you have any questions regarding the notice or would like to know how to restrict the use of your information, please call the Verizon Customer Sales & Solutions Center telephone number located on your telephone bill or visit the Customer Sales & Solutions Center to locate the telephone number for your area.

Providing Services to Enhance Your Privacy
Verizon considers privacy implications as new services are planned and introduced and informs customers of the privacy implications of these services.

Non-published numbers, Caller ID and Caller ID blocking services, and Anonymous Call Rejection are among the privacy-management services Verizon offers our telephone customers. We also work to develop other services that help customers to control access to information about them. We seek customer input in developing new products and conduct comprehensive customer outreach and education efforts before and after introducing privacy-sensitive products.

Protecting your Privacy in Cyberspace and in Other Areas of Our Business
At Verizon, we are committed to expanding the world of communications and multimedia for customers, a world of wireline and wireless solutions: voice, video, and data services, as well as information and entertainment. We will investigate the privacy implications these new services may have and build safeguards into services before they are introduced. We will inform and educate you about the effect on customer privacy any new services may have.

For example, Verizon's commitment to maintaining high standards for the protection of customer privacy extends beyond telephone service to include our Web sites. Recognizing concern over privacy on the Internet, Verizon has developed an on-line privacy policy that clearly defines the corporation's data collection processes and the use of that data at all times. Visitors to Verizon's Web sites -- for example, www.verizon.com, www.superpages.com, www.verizon.net -- are apprised of the types of information obtained, how it is obtained, how it is used, and how they can restrict the use or disclosure of that data.

Verizon is committed to maintaining high standards for the protection of customer privacy. At Verizon, your privacy is our priority. For more information on how Verizon strives to protect your privacy, customers can access our World Wide Web site at www.verizon.com.

Updated November 2005

General Privacy Policy
http://www22.verizon.com/About/Privacy/genpriv/

OK,  GFN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!RFN.

Think of our constitution as a levy. Think of our democracy as New Orleans. Now, what are you prepared to do?

and lucky chris, who is cellphoneless, has a teensy bit less to worry about.  but all those 900 #s from home, sorry, can't help ya there.

--
Albert Yee
Philadelphia, PA
http://dragonballyee.com/blog

We have got a lot of work ahead of us now and we must get started right away on it.  What a horrible government we have working for us "we the ppl"!

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY