Dems got it backwards on democracy

The survival of our democracy depends on the adherence to the Bill of Rights. Democracy never depends on banning any right guaranteed by the finest document ever put to paper.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling for more tech companies to ban more sites that he and his party disagrees with, like Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Pinterest, and Spotify have done to Infowars. Murphy says the survival of American democracy depends on it.

Murphy has it a** backwards: the survival of our democracy depends on our ability to express ourselves and defend ourselves against the tyranny of government, just like the tyranny of censoring free speech erodes democracy.

If it's Alex Jones today, who will it be tomorrow? Ben Shapiro?Sean Hannity? Robert Spencer? Pamela Geller?

Even the speech of Milo Yiannopoulos, which is as detestable as Alex Jones', should not be banned because the more these idiots talk, the more normal people can see their lies.

But Chris Murphy and his ilk are more dangerous than both Jones and Yiannopoulos.

"Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart," Murphy said. "These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it," he tweeted Monday.

Murphy never explains just who determines what are the lies. He also doesn't understand that free speech is not the speech we want to hear, but the speech we don't want to hear. It's a person's right to say whatever he wants to say and our right to not listen, to walk away, to disagree and use more speech to debate.

Speech that calls for violence or puts lives at risk is already illegal.

And no, Alex, we are not 'all Alex Jones'. Just because someone defends your First Amendment right to free speech, doesn't mean they like you or believe a word you say. You are a loathsome individual who deserves not to be taken seriously, but that's the only restriction that should be placed on your words.

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Why lunatics like Alex Jones should not be banned

How is it that Apple, YouTube and Facebook banned Infowars on the same day? Is it possible the tech giants are band together to ban people they don't agree with?

Look, Alex Jones, who heads Infowars, is a conspiracy theory moron and a disgusting human being. I dislike the way he comes across; I dislike the garbage he spouts, but I like the First Amendment a lot more than I dislike Jones.

Facebook unpublished four of Jones' pages for "repeated violations of community standards," the company said Monday, without defining with clarity what the hell they were talking about.

Then YouTube terminated his account after he continued appearing in videos despite a 90-day ban from the company. Spotify also removed all of one of his podcasts for "hate content". They didn't explain what hate content is, but apparently it's anything the left disagrees with and wants banned.

Sarah Jeong is a racist just hired by the New York Times for its editorial staff. She has said horrible, anti-white, anti-cop, and anti-white woman statements on Twitter and was never banned for her hateful rhetoric.

But when Candace Owens, a conservative black woman, substituted the word 'white' with 'black' using Jeong's own tweets, Owens was banned from the website until conservatives voiced strong complaints and she was reinstated.

To rectify the situation, Twitter claimed they made a mistake by banning Owens. That was as feeble an excuse as Jeong's was when she claimed she received racist remarks on Twitter and countered those remarks with her own racist remarks.

If you believe that, you've got to be a liberal.

Have you noticed that leftist mistakes only go in one direction? Has anyone seen The New York Times or CNN make a "mistake" in favor of President Trump?

Removing speech one doesn't like or agree with is dangerous to the freedoms of this country. If you do it with Jones, you will not stop if you know you've gotten away with it. The First Amendment wasn't made to protect speech we like--it was made to protect speech we don't like. And the best way to deal with speech we don't like is with more speech, obviously.

But like a certain religion that will go unnamed, leftism cannot tolerate good debate because it's a weak ideology.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Spotify, Apple or any tech giant, should not be the arbiters of what is considered acceptable speech.

As mentioned, Jones is a disgusting person who has even gone so far as to claim the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax and the children were all actors, to give merely one example of his conspiracy theory claims, but he should be viewed as the idiot he is and be allowed to show how big an idiot on Inforwars, as long as nobody is threatened with violence or that violence is called for by Jones.

The left is losing its collective mind and our rights are about to take a serious hit.

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WikiLeaks dumps trove of CIA hacking tools

WikiLeaks is at it again. In what they're calling the "largest ever publication of confidential documents" from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, they claim to have released thousands of files from a "high-security network" inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, VA.

This is the first in a series called "Year Zero." It will detail CIA cyber weaponry, according to their press release, and the source of the files is allegedly a former government hacker or contractor. WikiLeaks claims the source wants to create a public debate "about the security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyber weapons."

The enormous file released apparently contains millions of lines of code, referencing programs with ambiguous names such as "Medusa" and "HIVE."

According to WikiLeaks' analysis of the documents, the CIA has been targeting iPhones, smart TVs, and Androids. One program of the CIA can turn on smart TVs into "covert microphones" for spying, WikiLeaks said, and also alleged the agency is able to collect data from machines running Apple's iOS.

Another shocker is the assertion the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt, Germany, operates as a "covert CIA hacker base." The website alleges that agents get into Germany under the guise of technical consultants for the American consulate, but then are given "black" passports that allow them access to travel freely through the Shengen open border area.

Whoever the WikiLeaks source is, that person needs to be found and brought to justice. Our national security is compromised when our intelligence goes public.

Hopefully, President Trump will see this as a priority.


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Apple has a worm

Two religious kids out for a jihad

San Bernadino D.A. Mike Ramos believes the Muslim jihadist Syed Farook's iPhone may have information on it that could uncover a possible third shooter in the December jihad massacre that killed 14 infidels. 

I know this description of the event may sound harsh, but that's exactly how the gunman and gunwoman viewed their "religious" mission.

Ramos filed an amicus curiae (aka: amicus brief) stating, "At the time that the murders were being perpetrated at least two 911 calls to the San Bernadino Police Dispatch center reported the involvement of three perpetrators."

The brief went on to add: "Although the reports of three individuals were no corroborated, and may ultimately be incorrect, the fact remains that the information contained solely on the seized iPhone could provide evidence to identify as of yet unknown co-conspirators who would be prosecuted for murder and attempted murder in San Bernadino County by the District Attorney."

Although it was confirmed that Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik did the shooting, the FBI has not ruled out the possibility of a third shooter being involved. Indeed, some eyewitnesses insisted there were three. One of those eyewitnesses, Sally Abedlmageed, said, "I know what I saw."

Ms. Abedlmageed doesn't seem to have an ax to grind.

Dead jihadists who murder innocent non-Muslims have zero privacy rights, and any evidence that can help us understand the situation and gather intelligence that may prevent further harm should be made available to law enforcement immediately. His phone can provide us with evidence of the crime, at the very least, and at best, prevent another one.

In any case, there may or may not be a third shooter, but what if the iPhone can provide data of another jihadist connection? Wouldn't that be a possible gold mine of intel?

The first officer on the scene, Lt. Michael Madden said he saw no evidence pointing to a third gunman. There's no doubt that such violence can cause people to see what may not be true. 

If you Google weapon focus effect, for example, it says:

Weapon focus is a factor affecting the reliability of eyewitness testimony. Weapon focus signifies a witness to a crime diverting his or her attention to the weapon the perpetrator is holding, thus leaving less attention for other details in the scene and leading to memory impairment later for those other details.

Now the issue is how intimate to the scene, the violent action, were the witnesses? If they believed their lives were in danger, then this phenomenon would apply. But if they didn't believe their lives were in danger, than their testimony is more believable.

Ramos tried another approach to get the iPhone opened for FBI search. He said in the filing the the phone "may contain evidence that can only be found on the seized phone that it was used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernadino County's infrastructure."

Ramos is probably referring to the possible existence of a "virus" or "worm" malware that would attack government computer networks and the like.

Apple does not need to change their system or be made to build something they don't want to build--that would be a form of slavery. All they need to do is a bypass of the password that, if tried and failed ten times would delete all phone data.

But Apple seems to have its own worm.

C'mon Tim Cook--do the right thing. If you don't, I'm trading in my iPhone for an android.
(Entire post written on a PC)


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Unlocking the iPhone and Hillary lockup

The FBI now is asking  theApple Corporation to unlock another dozen or so iPhones. The agency believes unlocking the phone found in a Lexus, for example, will provide them with information that will assist in providing strategic information in combating terrorism. 

Apple CEO Tim Smith continues to thwart the FBI's efforts and has stated to Henhouse News that unlocking even one terrorist iPhone will severely hurt the good relationship Apple has with radical Islamic groups. He mentioned CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Muslim Student Association all who claim that they couldn't live without their iPhones.

GOP presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump is using this issue as part of his platform for the highest office in the land told cheering crowds in Nevada: "When I am president, I will not only make Apple unlock those phones, I will make them pay a fine and put Tim Cook in federal prison, okay?"

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders also weighed in on the issue saying, "When oi am president, there will be no damn Apple Cawparation. There will only be "The US Cell Phone Company and you bettah believe that oi will get awl the infawmashion the damn FBI needs. And then oi will go after Wall Shtreet." 

College kids living off their parents' money cheered wildly.

Hillary Clinton was unavailable for comment as she has no phone privileges this week as she was caught lying to guards after she denied that she was smoking in her Gitmo cell that she shares with Huma Abedin.




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