Episode for Monday, February 13th 2012: "The Surveillance State: It's not just for sex offenders anymore."

Episode for Monday, February 13th 2012:   "The Surveillance State:  It's not just for sex offenders anymore."

Contents:

1- The Surveillance State

2- Ten Questions about our Surveillance State

3- Five areas for contrast and compare political categories

4- Five vocabulary words to know and use

5- Description of Molester Mondays program

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Welcome to Radio-Role-Play for Political Activists on TalkShoe.Com Internet Radio

The rise of the American security state has given many citizens of every greater safety from terrorists and everyday criminals like sex offenders who mingle among us.  The federally enacted laws such as the Patriot Acts 1&2, the Military Commissions Act (2006), and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, 2011) allow for extraordinary powers to help in the war on terrorism.   These three laws alone, give the President (the Executive Branch) of the United States enormous powers that nullify many of our basic legal rights with such acts as indefinite detentions, search and seizure violations, due process violations and the right to rendition, torture and murder those labeled "enemy combatants."  

Because these laws (and others related to them) are very long and detailed, we will only touch on them in our radio-role-play.  I encourage each of you to have a general understanding of them.  But our main focus is on the growing surveillance state as it regards American citizens.   Are we all criminals now?  Why are we being watched ever so increasingly closely?  Are there parallels with these various surveillance laws and the surveillance laws as they pertain to registered sex offenders?

To answer these and other questions, call into "Molester Mondays" and meet with other on-air activists who desire a return to peaceful, democratic, liberty-based society where respect for science and reason guide the direction in which our society moves.  Bring your insights into the growing number of controversial political categories that over the last thirty years have changed the face of American society away from a once democratic, constitutional, participatory and citizen-focused government into the increasingly anti-democratic, totalitarian, anti-science, anti-constitutional and pro-corporate governmental monstrosity that we have today. 

As previously mentioned, this week's topic:  " Does Our Increasing Surveillance State Provide Greater Security?" will deal with the growing security state in the United States and how the use of a growing array of surveillance technologies are attempting to prevent crime and terrorism before it happens.  But does this practice further erode the long cherished notions of democracy and freedom?   Please consider the below questions that will be covered:

1. Last week, Congress, passed an FAA re-authorization bill and President Obama is expected to sign it into law that will make it much easier for the government to put scores of unmanned spy drones into American skies.  If the law takes full effect, it is believed as many as 30,000 drones could be hovering over the U.S. by 2020.  Is our surveillance minded government taking security and safety of its citizens too far?  
2. Current surveillance programs:  Convicted sex offenders have been under federal and state surveillance for decades.  Are citizens receiving the benefits of sex offender registration, notification and civil commitment? 
3. Does police surveillance of all citizens increase public safety which has been shown to be so important to Americans since the early 1990s when the surveillance of sex offenders became a national effort?
4. Since the 911 attacks, laws such as the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act and the recently signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act all attempt to prevent a new terrorist attack.  Are there parallels between these laws and sex offender laws that are designed to prevent new sex crimes?
5. Many Americans are suspicious of Muslims who live among us.  Should our government spy on this group in similar ways such as registered sex offenders in the hopes of stopping future terrorism?
6. If war breaks out with Iran, should the US Government round up and intern American Muslims just as what was done to American Japanese in early part of World War One?
7. Is there a link between commitment of some types of sex offenders and the growing terrorism concerns regarding political activists who continually break the law?
8. The growing surveillance state in America often has the support of national news outlets.  Is there a difference between supporting public safety and doing the work of journalism?
9. Should the US Government model new security laws that could be adopted from sex offender laws that would require those activists deems dangerous to register with police and be subject to internment for the benefit of greater public safety?
10. A recent poll shows that political candidates with the most campaign money win the election 94% of the time.  Should those groups under surveillance in the United States be concerned with campaign finance laws and corporate contributions to candidates?

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Our interactive, recorded Internet radio program "Molester Mondays with Bill Blathers" is designed for activists of all types who wish to improve their on-air verbal deliveries, interview tactics, and mastering their message when dealing with America's radio and television news media.  The use of the term "molester" is used in the sense of the continuing molestation the United States Constitution, the growing perversion of truth and fact, and the seemingly reduced role for critical thinking at the expense of political correctness.

Every week's specific topic will be interwoven with a wide range of broad-based issues in which related issues can be linked and discussion at many levels considering today's potentially complex politics.  A staple of our broad topics will include the following that provide a broad backdrop to the weekly changing topics that should make for some interesting talk.

Broad-based topic staples for all future radio-role-play discussions can and should be woven into the weekly topic such as these contemporary items:      

• Journalism v. Propaganda
•  Democracy v. Totalitarianism
• Critical Thinking v. Magical Thinking
• Constitutional Law v. Dictatorship Decree
• Freedom and Liberty v. Safety and Security
• The Individual v. the Corporate-Government Power

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Vocabulary words for the week of February 13th 2012

It is highly encouraged that you learn and use the following vocabulary words in your verbal interactions with host "Bill Blathers."

a.      pernicious -  Fatal, deadly, destructive, causing great harm or injury.  "The state's Sex Offender Registry (SOR) laws tended to have unintended and pernicious consequences once the results were analyzed." 

b.      draconian - Exceedingly harsh; very severe: a draconian legal code; draconian budget cuts.  "Many politicians continue to call for draconian criminal sanctions against those who sexually abuse children."

c.      commensurate - proportionate, corresponding in amount, measure, or degree.  "His sex abuse criminal sentence was hardly commensurate with the crime."

d.      ubiquitous - existing or seeming to exist everywhere at the same time.  "Sex offenders are often thought to be ubiquitous in their various registered addresses."

e.      lugubrious - mournful, gloomy, grotesque.  "The lugubrious outlook for near term sex offender registration law reform seems a long way off."

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Program schedule for "Molester Mondays with Bill Blathers."

8:45pm Eastern:  Molester Mondays Green Room - Learn your talking points (not recorded)
9:05pm Eastern:  Molester Mondays with Bill Blathers (recorded)
10:15pm Eastern: Molester Mondays Green Room post show comments (recorded)

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Regards,

Tom Madison
Program Director for "Molester Mondays with Bill Blathers" on Www.Talkshoe.Com Internet radio show Id: 113956 every Monday night at 9:05 pm Eastern and 6:05 pm Pacific times.