Caused and created by -- who else -- GOVERNMENTS!!!
Must we run down the list (with a Prop 102 tossed in to boot)?
Yup!
O.K., the U.S. has the the Asymmetrical Warfare Group operating in country.
It has also developed programs such as Operation Gladio, Operation Northwoods, the Salvador Option, and the Pentagon's "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group."
And what about the British agents who are the stars of the Prop 201 tutorial?
Did I also mention the FRU or not? Guess I just did!
And, of course, who can forget 9/11, the grandest inside job of all?
"West takes fight against terrorism online" by Doreen Carvajal/International Herald Tribune October 8, 2007
PARIS - In the name of counterterrorism, Western countries are moving to erect online security borders with aggressive proposals to block websites and to unleash Trojan e-mails containing spyware that would monitor jihadists.
Critics warn that the security measures could lead to censorship and privacy invasion, but governments are pressing for legislation aimed at thwarting attacks and walling off websites that espouse illegal activities or are "likely to have the effect of facilitating" crime.
In early November, Franco Frattini, the European Union justice commissioner, will introduce a package of antiterrorism proposals that includes the development of technology to block Internet sites offering bomb-making recipes and to make online recruiting of terrorists a punishable offense.
[O.K. to recruit mass-murdering Armies, though!]
Countries are already moving individually to acquire tools that would give them the ability to reach beyond national borders. In Germany, where the authorities recently foiled a planned terrorist attack, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is seeking powers to spy virtually, using e-mails that could infect recipients' computers with spy software.
Citing the threat of terrorism, the Swedish defense minister has also sought broad powers to monitor e-mail traffic without court orders, while in Australia the government introduced legislation this month to enable the federal police to block and ban websites through orders to Internet service providers.
"One way of viewing these trends is that the terrorists have won," said Richard Clayton, a computer security researcher at the University of Cambridge who is part of the OpenNet Initiative, which tracks Internet surveillance and filtering practices. "They're making us change our society to counteract, not what terrorists are doing, but what they're threatening to do," he said.
"And what's being proposed doesn't really make any difference for a terrorist, who will find a way around it."
[Not about terror, it is about CONTROLLING the POPULATION through unwarranted, government-sponsored and -generated "terror" and fear!]
Public officials like Frattini insist that governments are striking a balance between free speech and safety to ensure that "websites are not used as a vehicle for exchanging information that would threaten public security, in particular exchanging information for making bombs."
Frattini will present the precise details of his counterterrorism proposals on Nov. 6, according to his spokesman, Friso Roscam- Abbing, who said one aim was to "send a clear signal in Europe that the Internet cannot be abused."
In particular, government officials want to define clearly, according to Roscam-Abbing, what constitutes terrorist "incitement" or "glorification" and to make the act a criminal offense.
"The Internet, as we all know, is abused for terrorist propaganda and also for disseminating information on how to make bombs," Roscam-Abbing said. "What we want to achieve is to make that phenomenon punishable."
[Blah, blah, blah, gobbledey-fucking-guk!]
Critics, though, regard these ambitions warily since the nations in the European Union are already moving toward the adoption in 2009 of a "data retention directive" that will require Internet service providers to keep information about communications from six months to two years to aid in the identification of networks for terrorist activities.
"If people are looking for information and are motivated, they will find it," said Clayton. "It's naive. And in practice it's going to have all sorts of unintended effects if they try to block sites.
"We've been here before, with people blocking websites for pornography and you end up blocking breast cancer sites."
In Germany, the proposed surveillance is upsetting people. Last month, thousands participated in a demonstration in Berlin to protest computer surveillance and data retention. Data storage is an issue because the government is seeking broad powers to trace contacts by fixed lines, cellphones, text messages, and e-mail messages over a period of six months.
By championing surveillance measures, Schäuble has become the poster boy for a grass-roots campaign and mock T-shirts that features his unsmiling visage and the words, Stasi 2.0., a reference to the secret police of the former East Germany.
The system Schäuble is proposing would allow investigators to send software that secretly installs itself on specific computers, relaying data to police computers as users operate online. The program would also allow monitoring of keystrokes so that agents could track passwords.
[Oh, so they can TRACK YOUR PASSWORDS and, what, SET YOU UP, readers?!?!
Well, take your fucking Sig Heil's and SHOVE 'EM, Nazis!!!!!
FUCK OFF, ASSHOLES (with full, double-barreled, middle-finger extension salutes)!!!!!!!!
FUCK OFF!!!!!
Sooooo, when the "Al-CIA-Duh" website traces back to Texas or Maryland, am I to think of the OSI's PR office, or... ?
