As usual folks we see the over used "terrorist" word being thrown around to scare people into doing as they are told and the latest organisation to be continuing this childish trend is unsuprisingly the FBI.
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9926899-7.html?tag=nefd.ledeThe FBI on Wednesday called for new legislation that would allow federal police to monitor the Internet for "illegal activity."
The suggestion from FBI Director Robert Mueller, which came during a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing, appears to go beyond a current plan to monitor traffic on federal-government networks. Mueller seemed to suggest that the bureau should have a broad "omnibus" authority to conduct monitoring and surveillance of private-sector networks as well.
The surveillance should include all Internet traffic, Mueller said, "whether it be .mil, .gov, .com--whichever network you're talking about." (See the transcript of the hearing.)
In response to questions from Rep. Darrell Issa, a California Republican, Mueller said his idea "balances on one hand, the privacy rights of the individual who are receiving the information, but on the other hand, given the technology, the necessity of having some omnibus search capability utilizing filters that would identify the illegal activity as it comes through and give us the ability to preempt that illegal activity where it comes through a choke point.
It seems like the curse of power is affecting their judgment once again as internet meglomania rears it sickening head, you,ll notice in this report that there is not one word about safe guarding privacy or the abuse we have seen already of existing legislation by the FBI, and when you further read talk of preemting it looks like they are ready to cross the democratic line to enforce their will rightly or wrongly, some would say this sort of people are the real threat to undermining society.
