What Sarah Palin Experienced Was Surveillance (Hacked Emails) [Good Read]

NewsMax ^ | September 25, 2008 | Celia Farber

[2ndDivisionVet]

I rarely partake in either political discussions or mob rage, but what has transpired with the Palin “hacker,” and Gawker, is to my mind the very dead end, the very suicide, of the media cogniscenti, of anybody who touches it with a bargepole, or pretends it is anything short of a lynching of everything this country aims to stand for.

This is not “hacking.” Hacking sounds kind of cute, like surfing, like something faintly nerdy and ingenious. No — the word is “surveillance,” and the cultures that invented it and perfected it were dictatorships, most of which have crumbled and fallen into the dust of history.

This is what secret police do — most famously the Stasi of the blessedly vanquished German Democratic Republic (GDR), whose stated goal was to know everything and who elevated surveillance and the violation of citizens’ privacy to pornographic heights.

They hold up their specks of Palin’s supposed malfeasance (ranging from trivial to indecipherable, compared to the wild crime exploited to obtain it) in tweezers under censors' lamps, snorting “aha!” and expecting us to be scandalized and impressed.

I don’t care what they found.

There is a line in the sand, on one side democracy, decency, freedom; on the other, fascism, indecency, slum, and terror. Gawker, and the media that remain enslaved by the myth of their legitimacy, have crossed the line. Whether Gawker broke the law is not as important as whether they broke everything else.

These are the people who would have us believe that their contempt for the Bush administration is largely rooted in the “destruction of civil liberites” in this country, post 9/11.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Psalms 8:2: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

[machogirl]

what has happened with david kernell?

msm is silent.

[realcleanguy]

Proverbs 6:12-19
12 Here is a description of worthless and wicked people: They are constant liars,

13 signaling their true intentions to their friends by making signs with their eyes and feet and fingers.

14 Their perverted hearts plot evil. They stir up trouble constantly.

15 But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken beyond all hope of healing.

16 There are six things the LORD hates—no, seven things he detests:

17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,

18 a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong,

19 a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord among brothers.

[mojo114]

Amen brother!

[anniegetyourgun]

His Word is Truth!

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[Old Sarge]

Sarge 1:1 There is no god...

[steve-b]

But... but... if you’re not guilty then you have nothing to worry about. That’s pointed out on every Patriot Act thread here!

[NFHale]

Thanks for posting, troop.

[gop4lyf]

And will remain so.

[TASMANIANRED]

The left doesn't believe in individual liberty.

They believe in individual depravity, individual license, abjuration of responsibility but not liberty.

[Gordon Greene]

You may be Old Sarge, but that ain’t even part of the discussion... your just stirrin’ up crap.

GG

[Old Sarge]

Attack the messenger, not the message... that’s very good...

[LibertyRocks]

Does Celia really, honestly believe that Obama will come out against this? If so, then I’m afraid she will be disappointed.

It’s criminal when “conservatives” engage in this type of behavior, but lauded by the libeals when it is done “for the Left”.

With Obama trying on an almost daily basis to silence his critics through threats of pulling FCC licenses and the like, does she really believe he will come out against this?

[mojo114]

Old Sarge, I love your homepage and you. God Bless.

[Gordon Greene]

Psalm 53:1

“The fool hath said in his heart, ‘There is no God’”

Just a little quote...

[Gordon Greene]

‘Splain, please... do I misunderstand?

[realcleanguy]

Obamadon 1.1 “There is no God but me, and I am the messenger”

[Old Sarge]

Yes, you do.

[EDINVA]

the TN grand jury conveniently failed to indict him as the grand jury session ended.

Supposedly, investigation continues.

[Gordon Greene]

Gotcha... open apology.

Be glad I’m not a Democrat or I’d find some way to blame it on you.

Thanks fer yer understandin’...

[piytar]

I believe there is one (Catholic), but it’s your perogative to believe there isn’t, of course.

That said, don’t you agree that this is a good list of evil? And that it fits Obama to a T? I mean, he is/does EVERY ONE of those things!

[caveat emptor]

[Good Read]

Well, yes, on Palin's hacked emails, but keep reading.

These are the people who would have us believe that their contempt for the Bush administration is largely rooted in the “destruction of civil liberites” in this country, post 9/11.

And I agreed with them — with the liberal left — on this. If America becomes a surveillance state, it ceases to be.

The terrors began with the PC thought police, the academic purges, the media assassinations . . . they continued through the Kenneth Starr inquisitions, and then again, in a new form, with the myriad civil liberties erosions after 9/11.

Moonbat.

OTOH, her's was a good, moderate voice on AIDS - a long article with which many FReepers may disagree. She was savaged by the AIDS/homosexual lobby, and was evidently shaken by that whole experience. Here is an interview with her from September 2006.

Two out of three ain't bad, I guess.

[machogirl]

really, if this had been a repub kid, the coverage would be 24/7

[Tellurian]

Should Barack Obama scrounge up enough votes to win in November, I imagine he’ll come to be called Barack Obey-me Obama.

[machogirl]

i’m sure it will

[GOP Poet]

Wow. I am surprised it was not entitled: Proverbs 6:12-19: Obambi Lol. (sorry for joking as i love these bible quotes and respect them greatly, but it so-o reminded me of Obama) Actually it fits this as well.

[MayflowerMadam]

Reads like poster for the DNC.

[realcleanguy]

It fits. Obama is not a Christian. In fact, he is against Christianity

[GodGunsGuts]

Celia Farber is a real trooper. I met her back in the early 1990s, and boy was she a looker back then! I remember thinking to myself, if this is what all the AIDS dissident women look like, where do I sign up! But all kidding aside, it's hard to believe she has held on this long. She has taken a tremendous amount of abuse, her career has suffered greatly, and, as in the case of Duesberg, it's mostly a thankless job—GGG

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