If it is targeted at people they do not like.

If you approve of this for anyone you approve of it for everyone, including yourself.

Freedom is one thing you may not have unless you freely share it with everyone else.

You can just wait until someone blocks traffic and then easily arrest them. Mass preventive detentions, rifle-toting SWAT teams, and home invasions are repulsive.-- GlennGreenwald

Easily arrest them? I'd say that Chicago 68 and Seattle 99 demonstrate otherwise. When an organization says...

We are not Chicago in 68 or Seattle in 99. While we may draw inspiration from actions of the past, it is important that we not hold them up to be unattainable “high water marks”. Rather they are battles with some elements of victory meant to be built on and surpassed.

Isn't this conspiracy to riot writ large? Waiting to confront a large mob that has violence in mind is the height of stupidity and dangerous to all involved. Which I think is what you have in mind. Tsk.

I guess the police forgot that this is 2008 and we now have the internet. And YouTube.

Wonder when the China-style crackdowns on that will start happening (Rambling Rose 22, not when Obambi takes office, thanks)?

Well, they certainly found a whole heap of trouble when they crossed your path, Mister Glenn Greenwald, Esquire.

I'm good friends with a number of people involved with SF IndyMedia. This sort of stuff happens ALL THE TIME.

The people do not have a voice in this country, under this regime. I knew that much was true when I marched with half a million other patriots in 2003 to protest the illegal war in Iraq.

It's time to rise up and be heard. Now, and in November.

Obama/Biden 2008

You got that right!

I found this article at CNET...

CSI Stick grabs data from cell phones

Posted by CNET staff

This guest post is from Marc Weber Tobias, an attorney and physical security specialist.

If someone asks to borrow your cell phone, or you leave it unattended, beware!

Unless you actually watch them use it, they may be secretly grabbing every piece of your information on the device, even deleted messages. If you leave your phone sitting on your desk, or in the center console of your car while the valet parks it, then you and everyone in your contacts list may be at risk, to say nothing of confidential e-mails, spread sheets, or other information. And of course, if you do not want your spouse to see who you are chatting with on your phone, you might want to use extra caution.

Paraben's CSI Stick can be used to make a copy of all data on a cell phone.

There is a new electronic capture device that has been developed primarily for law enforcement, surveillance, and intelligence operations that is also available to the public. It is called the Cellular Seizure Investigation Stick, or CSI Stick as a clever acronym. It is manufactured by a company called Paraben, and is a self-contained module about the size of a BIC lighter. It plugs directly into most Motorola and Samsung cell phones to capture all data that they contain. More phones will be added to the list, including many from Nokia, RIM, LG and others, in the next generation, to be released shortly.

I recently attended and lectured at the Techno-Security conference in Myrtle Beach, Fla. About 1,500 law enforcement and security professionals participated and were briefed on the latest in cybersecurity vulnerabilities from participating federal agents, manufacturers, and cyber-consultants. The CSI Stick caught my attention because of the potential to rapidly and covertly download all of the information contained in many cell phones.

This device connects to the data/charging port and will seamlessly grab e-mails, instant messages, dialed numbers, phone books and anything else that is stored in memory. It will even retrieve deleted files that have not been overwritten. And there is no trace whatsoever that the information has been compromised, nor any risk of corruption. This may be especially troublesome for corporate employees and those that work for government agencies.

The good news: the device should find wide acceptance by parents who want to monitor what their kids are doing with their phones, who they are talking to and text messaging, and where they are surfing. It could also be valuable in secure areas where employees need to be randomly monitored to insure that sensitive information is not compromised through the use of a cell phone as a memory device.

The CSI Stick sells for $200 and requires an added piece of software to mine the data and do sophisticated processing on your computer. So now, in addition to worrying about your conversations or data being intercepted through your Bluetooth headset, there is a new threat, and it is very real.

The rule: if your phone contains sensitive data, do not leave it unattended. If you loan it to someone to use because they tell you theirs is not working, make sure you actually see them using the phone and there is nothing connected to it.

Well, just one more example of the police state we now live in...

had_enough says:

I hope those kids sue the shit out of the police, and the state, and collect some nice money, and a few people lose their jobs. That'd help.

That's why our wonderful establishment wants "tort-reform": to take away the last vestiges of recourse a citizen still has.

This is a blatant misuse of publicly funded law-enforcement to squash political dissent. Americans of all political persuasions must protest this. And the good people of Minnesota need to hold their "public servants" accountable.

Picture of large crowd not rioting.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/images/0215-12.jpg

Quote:

"Isn't this conspiracy to riot writ large? Waiting to confront a large mob that has violence in mind is the height of stupidity and dangerous to all involved. Which I think is what you have in mind. Tsk."

I'm sure the British felt that the colonists who eventually tired of their oppression considered the colonists who grouped to dissent "unruly mobs ........ common peasants incapable of understanding the sovereignty of the British Crown" ..... and their leaders ??? Traitors who should be hanged.