Thanks Honey
Here's an interesting story.Now, I could go on and on about how electronic voting machines cannot even calculate 36 votes correctly, and then segue into diatribe electoral fraud. But I'll save that.
But here's the thing. Read the story closely and see if you notice something funny. Go ahead and read it. I'll put my observation in a comment so I don't give it away right away.
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Rest in peace Alyssa Peterson.Rest in peace Malachi Ritscher.
Just Because It’s a Machine, Doesn’t Mean It’s Well-Oiled
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Big Brother isn’t Paying Attention
Well, my blogging pace has certainly picked up. A new entry before anyone has even noticed the last one. But this story is just too good.
Okay, so there’s an anti-war group called Answer. The Chicago chapter applied for a permit for a march on October 28th. The police rejected the permit and refused to have further communication with them. So Answer makes alternate plans for the day that don’t require permits.
What does the city do? They send hundreds of police in riot gear to location on out to where the march was supposed to take place!
In response to this non-trivial logistical mix-up, they were left with little choice but to blame Answer. They accused Answer of canceling the march that the police department canceled.
The ABC Channel 7 news played along with this charade. They interviewed someone from Answer who stated that they were denied a permit and then they showed the permit application in a context that made it appear that it was a city-issued permit.
So I don’t know what the city was trying to pull. They watch the anti-war movement closely and send undercover cops to protest planning meetings. This is all rather large waste of resources, but Daley and many of his most important cronies seem to have a very irrational attitude towards protesters. From what I gather, the city believed that there would be a secret protest and that Answer was able to covertly gather thousands of participants who were ready to march and get the jump on the city. The day of leafleting that they were promoting was really just a trick.
You know this makes me feel very good. You see I often worry that we are headed for a 1984-type society. I know the Chicago and New York police (and probably others) tape protests and keep the footage. I know the government is has a very extensive wire-tapping and data mining operation in effect. (The Total Information Awareness project that people were so scared of years ago has been not been terminated. It was just broken up into smaller pieces.) And they probably keep records on lil’ole me. This stuff all scares the bijous out of me.
But these events illustrate that our government simply is competent enough to utilize the information it gathers anyway. They are guided by bizarre perceptions of the anti-war movement and their right hand can’t even keep track of what their left hand is doing.
Imagine a boot attempting to kick a human over and over, but it keeps missing…
