Some recent developments on the National Security State front:

1) Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010

This bill transcends the proto-fascism of the Patriot Act and ventures into outright fascism. One of the reasons I am a radical is precisely because people like Joe Lieberman and John McCain are thought to be centrists/moderates and not the putrid extremists that they actually are. In the Alice-in-Wonderland newspeak world we now find ourselves in, Extremism=Centrism, where Centrism is simply the consensus of elite opinion. At this point, I would say this Bill does not reflect such opinion, but then again, it was proposed in response to a lone "lap bomber" on an international flight. In an event of another significant internal terrorist attack, the consensus would probably shift to reflect the bill. Of course, it always helps if the perpetrators are brown people and muslim.

2) Rockefeller-Snowe Cyber Security Bill

Wired makes the point that the Cyberwar Hype is mere corporatism under the guise of "National Security," the intent being to destroy the Open Internet. Wired is not far off. IPv4 grew out of a largely open, cooperative evolutionary(contrary to uninformed opinion, the US Government did not "invent" the internet) process; IPv6, the eventual 128 bit address Network Layer protocol replacement for the current 32-bit IPv4(especially in terms of the enhanced security protocols), is going to be, and has been, much more influenced by the political process. So the Rockefeller-Snowe Cyber Security Bill would go far in largely supplanting "Request for Comments" with political lobbying in terms of adoption/modification of internet protocols. Frankly, the primary result of this bill, in my opinion, will be to make the NSA an enforcement arm for digital copyright. I mean, if you want to talk about "unauthorized network traffic," piracy and copyrighted content is by far at the top of the list.

3) Schumer-Graham Immigration Reform Bill

It's getting to the point anytime "Reform" is in a piece of legislative, you can probably just go and ahead and substitute "tyranny" and get a better idea of what said legislation entails. Real ID has stalled, so let's find another way to use fear to get a national biometric identification card, this time tying it into getting permission to earn a living. Once again people like Schumer and Graham are held up to be "moderates." Well, Schumer is a crook and Graham is just to the left of Hermann Goering, so i could stand do without this type of bi-partisanship. Quoting Schumer:

"It's the nub of solving the immigration dilemma politically speaking," Mr. Schumer said in an interview. The card, he said, would directly answer concerns that after legislation is signed, another wave of illegal immigrants would arrive.

Well, with the political economy that is emerging out of Washington, I don't think you are going to have to worry about any new "waves" of "illegal immigration," Senator.

4) PreCog Crime Prevention

Minority Report was a lousy movie; real life is just sparing us the delusion of any entertainment value...