In the wake of the failure of the U.S. Senate to move forward on the USA Freedom Act, many activists and civil liberties advocates have come to the conclusion that we can’t rely on the feds to do anything decent on the subject. One of the proposed grassroots ways to fight back has been an emphasis on increased use of encryption (recall my pre-Snowden era post, Bitcoin and Kim Dotcom: Why it’s Time to “Encrypt Everything”). Another obvious solution is for people to revolt at the local level. It appears that the citizens of Utah are doing just that.
Wired reports that:
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would shut off the water spigot to the massive data center operated by the National Security Agency in Bluffdale, Utah.
The legislation, proposed by Utah lawmaker Marc Roberts, is due to go to the floor of the Utah House of Representatives early next year, but it was debated in a Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee meeting on Wednesday. The bill, H.B. 161, directs municipalities like Bluffdale to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.”
The NSA brought its Bluffdale data center online about a year ago, taking advantage Utah’s cheap power and a cut-rate deal for millions of gallons of local water, used to cool the 1-million-square-foot building’s servers. Roberts’ bill, however, would prohibit the NSA from negotiating new water deals when its current Bluffdale agreement runs out in 2021.
“I just don’t want to subsidize what they’re doing on the back of our citizens,” Carlisle quotes Republican Representative Roger Barrus as saying during the meeting.
Utah has a long history of disputes with the federal government, but this is the first time Carlisle remembers anyone proposing to cut off water to a federal agency. “I think it’s representative of an attitude change in Utah that the bill is even being discussed,” he says.
Now if we could just get some more attitudes to change across the land we might get some freedom back.
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Michael Krieger
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Sounds good, but that’s not how things work in an Empire. What is the state going to do when the Feds shut off the money spigot and send in the troops. My guess is the state will blink. Dying empires always get desperate. And slaves/serfs do what they are told. Or else.
I generally agree with you, but I absolutely think using peaceful means to expose the thuggishness of the state is an important, necessary and healthy part of the process of change.
Hi Guys, sorry, but I agree with you Ken, and by 2021 it will be game well and truly over – and the Casino will be permanently closed, at least to the Plebs. We are fast approaching the Cull Man Nation of a long, long march… things will speed up, heat up logarithmically, like the growing mountain of debt which will plunge into the sea of humanity like wormwood.
(The next move will be for Israel to take the Temple Mount…)
The simple reason why the world is so immersed, even baptized, in debt, and therefore, death, as in our present and future is now permanently morte-gauged to an unremitable debt – oh the irony is so delicious it demands a forum! Think about it, Yeshuah, Eashoa, Jesus, Christ – call Him what you will, told the parable of a man who was released from a great and unremitable debt burden. He then demanded from his fellow servant an amount that was a mere pittance compared to the debt that he had owed, and his Master, hearing of the matter, was wrath with indignation, and handed him over to the tormentors, that he should repay every penny, having demanded one penny from his fellow servant…even every penny of an unremitable debt…
Now who are our fellow servants? Read Romans 9 to work that one out, if peradventure God grants you the grace to comprehend and grow thereby.
The scriptures speak of an hour of testing, in the Aramaic “The hour of LOSS” which is to come upon the whole world. In 2001 or so, I heard a lot of blather from Xian “Ministries” (actually mini-trees of good and evil) of a coming Great Wealth Transfer. So I asked as to this and heard, “They will lose everything.” I kept meeting powerful, wealthy people, I kept hearing “They will lose everything” – I had a word from heaven when asking about our province, currently under assault from Uncle Samhain – “Ian, when this is over, there will hardly be a heart or house left unbroken in Canterbury, and you will have to learn to deal with real loss…”
I asked a little later what this loss might entail, and was minded of the text,”You must count ALL AS LOSS, in order to gain Christ.”
Loss in this context means shit. I use the more prosaic form to reinforce the poo like point, that what has gone before has largely been loss, a pile of pooh pretending to be piety, and that only a remnant of righteousness, of the “good” leavening, has sustained mankind up to this current juncture, which is the “Cross Road” we are fast approaching, where Mankind will be given the opportunity to choose to embrace their destiny, having had their destiny draw them to Himself. Those who take the left branch line to Nowheresville will find only desert at the end of the line…funnily enough, the vision I was shown of this in 2001 looked like a Wild West “Utah” kind of scene of the end of the line to nowhere…to “no Life” there…
A little leavening leavening the whole lump goes both ways – hypocrisy is a leaven, or influence, so too is Righteousness, which like Truth, is not a “thing”, it is a Life Giving Spirit. The trouble is Michael, to try and fight the system with the tool box the system allows you to have, is in the end futile, especially now that the Law has been so disabused and has gone from being a shield to the weak to a weapon to the willful…The Law was originally given until the Promise should come…and now….like astrology…it has become as the “abandoned” Old Way that the abandoned twist to their own delight, but inevitably to their own destruction.
The weapons of our warring are not of the flesh, but they are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds – once you conquer, or have your own inner conquests conquered, your won strongholds reduced to rubble and the rebuild in progress, with the Master carpenter in control of the project, Life takes on a whole New perspective – the trouble is that by and large, the Church (aka Circe) has been peddling pooh to the parishioners and has been to perhaps the greatest extent, the very means by which the Communist conquest has been perpetrated, in that we preferred having comforts to having a Comforter…and when the shit really hits the fan, that is the only thing that will rise you above the flood of pooh which is about to baptize the world, as everyone’s shit comes back to haunt them…
Funny how Jesus came to “correct” the religion of the Jews, yet they effectively wrecked the Church with it – and even the Pope (the Poop?) is a Commie rat…my Progressive Socialist (Marxist) sister must be feeling cock-a-hoop…they think that they have won…but God, who sits in the heavens, has them in derision – he is laughing at them, and so ought you,
Beautiful…….
toss Barokeback Obola and his minions out of your state, remember what they did to your people testing Nucs in the 50-60’s? They lied then too and locals died………………
They should also deny the tumor facility electric power. Make them haul in their own water and generate their own power.
Seven years of mega surveillance… sounds downright Biblical doesn’t it? There won’t BE any water in Utah in seven years mostly likely, so this is a meaningless gesture with zero teeth. I’m glad they made the gesture though… better than nothing.
2021?!??? Pussies. Why not just VOID the deal and shut it the f u c k off right away?
Pussies.
Once again, the political machine works far too slowly for the ‘good people’ than it does for the crooks. By 2021 they won’t even need the water.
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Hmmmm, that’s interesting. I’ll look into it, thanks for pointing it out.