Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Mark Klein, Author of Wiring Up the Big Brother Machine http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:58:51 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947692 libbyliberal Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:21:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947692 <p>Mark, if you see this. Have you been on radio wnyc with Lopate or Lehrer to pitch your book? Love their shows.</p> Mark, if you see this. Have you been on radio wnyc with Lopate or Lehrer to pitch your book? Love their shows.

]]> By: Neil http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947636 Neil Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:29:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947636 <blockquote><p><em>Marcy and Glenn, laser-like truth seeing.</em></p></blockquote> <p>No question. Both the best at what they do.</p>

Marcy and Glenn, laser-like truth seeing.

No question. Both the best at what they do.

]]> By: Neil http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947635 Neil Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:22:57 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947635 <blockquote><p>Note, he’s already got the password and ID…</p> <p>;-p</p></blockquote> <p>Who wants to bet the NSA has it, too?</p>

Note, he’s already got the password and ID…

;-p

Who wants to bet the NSA has it, too?

]]> By: TheLurkingMod http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947260 TheLurkingMod Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:07:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947260 <p>Some diary! Upstairs!<br /><a href="http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/6862" rel="nofollow">I Am a Gang Member</a></p> Some diary! Upstairs!
I Am a Gang Member

]]> By: Gitcheegumee http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947259 Gitcheegumee Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:51:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947259 <p>“SHILLer”,now there’s a name that fits.</p> <p>Wonder if he ever read “Lord of the Flies”…no,that’s NOT about Shrubya, however…..</p> “SHILLer”,now there’s a name that fits.

Wonder if he ever read “Lord of the Flies”…no,that’s NOT about Shrubya, however…..

]]> By: Gitcheegumee http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947258 Gitcheegumee Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:46:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947258 <p>@205</p> <p>Pretty much sums it ALL up,doesn’t it?</p> @205

Pretty much sums it ALL up,doesn’t it?

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947257 libbyliberal Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:44:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947257 <p>Wow, Gitch. So glad I caught this. Talk about sobering.</p> Wow, Gitch. So glad I caught this. Talk about sobering.

]]> By: Gitcheegumee http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947256 Gitcheegumee Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:35:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947256 <p>@202</p> <p>“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realize we cannot eat money. ~” </p> <p>Cree Indian Proverb</p> @202

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realize we cannot eat money. ~”

Cree Indian Proverb

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947255 libbyliberal Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:30:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947255 <blockquote><p>“The first step to treating every American like they could be a criminal is to start collecting information on people who have done nothing wrong.” said Calbrese. </p></blockquote> <p>Well, look at how accurate they were putting people in Gitmo. Cheney looks at the tv camera imperiously and declares they were all the worst of the worst. Only a fraction have not been released right now. The ones released did not belong there apparently, though God forbid the press ever express that, or our leadership.</p>

“The first step to treating every American like they could be a criminal is to start collecting information on people who have done nothing wrong.” said Calbrese.

Well, look at how accurate they were putting people in Gitmo. Cheney looks at the tv camera imperiously and declares they were all the worst of the worst. Only a fraction have not been released right now. The ones released did not belong there apparently, though God forbid the press ever express that, or our leadership.

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947254 libbyliberal Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:26:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-mark-klein-author-of-wiring-up-the-big-brother-machine/#comment-1947254 <p>Also, Blue, if you never had a sense of real “privacy” to cherish how can you begin to appreciate what you are losing? What a surreal society they have been bombarded with, the young-in’s and must survive. Idealism never had time to grow, pragmatic cynical realism at best?</p> <p>I wish someone would do an benign but effective intervention on America. There is a definite imperialistic, hubristic power and control addiction going on. </p> <p>Gamesmanship, not statesmanship. Consumer society. Style not substance. Money trumps morality.</p> Also, Blue, if you never had a sense of real “privacy” to cherish how can you begin to appreciate what you are losing? What a surreal society they have been bombarded with, the young-in’s and must survive. Idealism never had time to grow, pragmatic cynical realism at best?

I wish someone would do an benign but effective intervention on America. There is a definite imperialistic, hubristic power and control addiction going on.

Gamesmanship, not statesmanship. Consumer society. Style not substance. Money trumps morality.

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