06-20-2013, 12:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2013, 12:45 AM by FireIceTalon.)
(06-19-2013, 06:53 AM)cheezz Wrote:(06-12-2013, 06:36 PM)LochnarITB Wrote: I firmly believe this crap was happening before Obama, to whatever degree then current technology allowed,
I have proof of that. I moved to my present location about 9.5 years ago and got a new phone number. I decided to pay to be unlisted, since no one had my number. (I highly recommend that, by the way.)
When you're unlisted, your number shows up as 'private' on caller ID.
About 7 or 8 years ago, I called the IRS. Based on some things a coworker had said, I thought that I might be able to redo some deductions and re-file my tax return to drop me into a lower tax bracket. I asked them my questions and they confirmed my theory, even explaining how to do it. They reran the numbers and told me exactly how much less my taxable income would be.
As soon as I got off the phone, I realized two things-
1. They looked up my tax return even though I did not give them ANY information that could identify me.
2. That could only happen if Windstream, the company I was paying for privacy, sold me out to Uncle Sam.
I didn't get overly excited about it, yet to this day I don't think there are any laws on the book which allow for such blatant breach of contract.
If the law doesn't exist, that means it is legal to do - whether it is morally or ethically incorrect or not hardly matters. But even if such a rule did exist, that hardly matters either - rules can, have been, and will be bent or changed when the state sees fit to do so. The Patriot Act was a huge violation of the consitituion (now as a Marxist, I'm hardly a constitutionalist, but that is irrelevant to my point), and yet our lovely bourgeois state apparatus had no qualms in passing it. The NSA scandal is just an extension of the Patriot Act.
Pseudo-democracy looks sweet and tasty on the outside, but is in essence, rotten to the core.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)