Loss of Privacy

Guilty until proven innocent. That’s how Americans now view any male that looks at a photo of a little child. Considering that, not long ago, Americans realized how cute these things were, companies created ads to play on the “aww isn’t that cute” factor, it’s kind of sad that we now see pedophiles and pedophilia everywhere we turn.

The child is a relative whom the family says Billy treated as his own child when the girl was diagnosed with cancer as her father went through boot camp. Her father told us he can’t believe the charges, especially since they’re on other family computers and on Facebook pages and no one else has been investigated.

Considering the fact that I was born naked, I suppose my mother, the doctor, and all the nurses in the delivery room should be arrested now. Sound stupid? Yeah, it is. So are prosecutions such as this one.

reddit has a pretty good discussion going on about how prudish Americans have become. The comments there sum up pretty well how far we have fallen.

Apparently, Major Hasan, the man responsible for the Ft. Hood shootings, now has links to Al Qaeda and the 9/11 terrorists. It’s funny how, looking back, so did Tim McVeigh. We are now going to forget that this man was probably insane and the military neglected its duty to help him before things got bad.

Before the G20 summit even got into full swing in Pittsburgh, military police have been busy arresting American citizens, something that is supposed to be strictly prohibited by law.  It’s also a huge over reaction to the situation at hand.

If you try to exercise your first amendment rights during the G20, you’re likely to get arrested.  Those arrests are, apparently, now being conducted by military personnel.

The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain “law and order” on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.

The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress.

Remember folks, if the government is violating the law, it’s for your own good.  George Bush repealed the Posse Comitatus Act on October 17, 2006, when he signed Public Law 109-364, more commonly known as HR5122. Review §1076 for yourself.

More photos can be found here.  Note that many of the “police” are actually wearing military fatigues.

A new gel, called d30, hardens immediately on impact and the military hopes to use it on their helmets to help dissipate the kinetic energy from bullets and shrapnel.

The d3O gel has already expanded into a range of sporting goods and is found in ski gloves, shin guards, ballet shoe pointes and horse-riding equipment. The substance relies on “intelligent molecules” that “shock lock” together to absorb energy and create a solid pad. Once the pressure has gone they return to their normal flexible state.

The gel is stitched into clothing or equipment that is supple until it stiffens into a protective barrier on impact.

If the product is taken on by defence contractors it could be used to reduce the current bulky and restrictive armour used by troops in on the frontline with gel pads inserted into key protective areas.

Most military personnel aren’t dying from head wounds.  It’s the flying shrapnel.  The military is investing £100,000, which means that they don’t fully support the idea yet or they plan to only use it with special forces.

More information on costs is needed, as well as how well the gel works, before a final decision can truly be made.