The fascist regime that made you a moron: Thanks dJonkey

[Katman]

Our intelligence anaylists are interested in all your reactions to this knowledge.....

I'm not wearing any pants.

[Banditbandit]

I'm not wearing any pants.

Fuck .. I really needed that image in my head before lunch !!!

[mashman]

So, certain members, and especally members of the Kiwi Biker Horticultural Society will be getting visits from our civillian counterparts in the near future.

Picking up or dropping off?

[SMOKEU]

I'm not wearing any pants.

Neither am I.

[MIXONE]

I've got a 150+kg Texan living across the road from me and he wears loud hawiian shirts.Surely this is a crime against humanity and a possible terrorist activity when he goes out in public.

[Brian d marge]

I just got this in the mail today .....

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As many of you are probably already aware, the TTB (Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau), which is the federal government agency that controls virtually all things related to alcohol, formally requested the list of sales of distillers, distillation columns, and boilers. The request encompasses all sales of these products (and these products only- supplies and other equipment are not required to be documented) for the past three years, and quarterly reports from this point on. This appears to have been an industry wide movement, as all of the major producers and distributors have received the same request. We are contacting you to let you know that, based on your purchase date and the product(s) that you purchased, your information will be included on our list to the TTB. We have fielded a very large number of phone calls and e-mails asking what the TTB intends to do with this information. This is something that we cannot answer. There are many theories being discussed on various forums, including our own (www.brewhausforum.com), however, they are not currently substantiated. Even though it should not have a significant effect to those not using the equipment to distill alcohol or those who have already obtain proper licensing, it can still prove to be an inconvenience should the government act on the information.
One possible positive side to this action is that it has energized many people who support hobby distillation (who are obviously the most concerned over the request), and there is now some movement to press for legalization of hobby distillation. If you would be interested in supporting this movement, please visit our forum.
While this is obviously beyond our control, we are sorry to be the bearer of such news.

I said no , not that it will help

Stephen

[mashman]

I guess when the Key govt said it was wanting transparency and then doing the exact opposite, what they must have meant was that it wanted our privacy to be transparent to whoever will pay for it.

[GCSB Thought Police]

I'm terribly sorry, but no-one pays us. And to suggest such would be to be completely wrong.

However, you did give up your privacy when you voted for the current Government (at least a majority of you did - and it is the majority we care about. The minority of troublemakers will get what they deserve) and when this Government passed the bill which means we get to look into all your lives.

[HenryDorsetCase]

So, given the public revelations this week about Palantir and other international surveillance activities, we decided to test the public reaction to such knowledge by revealing that we are looking into Kiwi Biker. Of course, this is completely deniable, so if this gets into the true public arena of course it wil be denied. We are quite safe. No-one woudl seriously believe the GCSB is surveilling Kiwi Biker looking for terrorist activity anyway.

Our intelligence anaylists are interested in all your reactions to this knowledge and the potential future fallout of such knowledge, especially political fallout. Your co-operation is not requiered, as we wish to observe your natural reactions, rather than the contrived ones which will be used if we asked for cooperation.

Your experiment is flawed because you have changed the outcome by observing it.

[puddytat]

So, given the public revelations this week about Palantir and other international surveillance activities, we decided to test the public reaction to such knowledge by revealing that we are looking into Kiwi Biker. Of course, this is completely deniable, so if this gets into the true public arena of course it wil be denied. We are quite safe. No-one woudl seriously believe the GCSB is surveilling Kiwi Biker looking for terrorist activity anyway.

Our intelligence anaylists are interested in all your reactions to this knowledge and the potential future fallout of such knowledge, especially political fallout. Your co-operation is not requiered, as we wish to observe your natural reactions, rather than the contrived ones which will be used if we asked for cooperation.

I'll tell you what the fallout will be.....ultimately you will be overthrown like so many who have tried this shit in the past.

Do you think that you fellas are going to somehow be immune to the events that are in motion?

[Akzle]

I'm terribly sorry, but no-one pays us. And to suggest such would be to be completely wrong.

you do it for love?

how considerate of you.

derpderp mohammad jihad wogistan IMF.

[Akzle]

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Hey f*ck you, mods. Give me embed!

[scumdog]

... immune to the events that are in motion?

[BoristheBiter]

Well it looks like you tinfoil hat wearers were right, there are fascists at work.

We were just looking at the wrong side.

http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/govt...nquiry-5466774

[mashman]

It can go in here too

Bit of a scarey read really

"Top secret US National Security Agency (NSA) documents disclosed by the Guardian have shocked the world with revelations of a comprehensive US-based surveillance system with direct access to Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants. New Zealand court records suggest that data harvested by the NSA's Prism system has been fed into the Five Eyes intelligence alliance whose members also include the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand."

"The study also warned of a possible shortfall in global oil output by 2015"

"The Pentagon knows that environmental, economic and other crises could provoke widespread public anger toward government and corporations in coming years. The revelations on the NSA's global surveillance programmes are just the latest indication that as business as usual creates instability at home and abroad, and as disillusionment with the status quo escalates, Western publics are being increasingly viewed as potential enemies that must be policed by the state."