{"id":196901,"date":"2008-03-15T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/15\/the-stupid-mindless-security-state\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T20:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T01:11:00","slug":"the-stupid-mindless-security-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/15\/the-stupid-mindless-security-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupid, Mindless Security State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s USAF Gen. Michael Hamel, who feels the need to warn us about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/004062.html\">extential threat that Google Earth poses to the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;It could be as simple as how is it that an adversary gets an image off of Google Earth that could somehow threaten American lives or interests &#8230;.. &#8220;That is an example of a space threat that we may face in the future.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And as a commenter said, &#8220;Right&#8230; and pigs can fly. Or rather, the good General may wish a Pig Ban because <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">if<\/span> pigs <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">could<\/span> fly they might somehow hurt US interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m beginning to wonder why a disproportionate number of these mind-boggling stupid statements coming from generals seem to come from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">USAF<\/span> generals.<\/p>\n<p>Must be something in the water at Colorado Springs&#8230;Come to think of it, that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> where dog and child beater James Dobson&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Focus on the Family<\/span> is located.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case, it&#8217;s USAF Gen. Michael Hamel, who feels the need to warn us about the extential threat that Google Earth poses to the United States. &#8220;It could be as simple as how is it that an adversary gets an image off of Google Earth that could somehow threaten American lives or interests &#8230;.. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}