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Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by Deprogrammer9 »

QuercusMax wrote: post #8
aliasxneo wrote: post #5

> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network. That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.

Scientologists being involved with intelligence agencies doesn't surprise me even a bit, it makes a lot of sense as a CIA cutout.

Those weirdos followed me around Ybor near Tampa when I said something negative about them online in public. IT WAS WEIRD! But I gave no Fs

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by joe_the_user »

QuercusMax wrote: post #8
aliasxneo wrote: post #5

> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network. That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.

Scientologists being involved with intelligence agencies doesn't surprise me even a bit, it makes a lot of sense as a CIA cutout.

It seems likely that every tightly clique is trying to infiltrate every other such clique - it's endless battle between mafias, political parties, cults (Tulsi Gabard's connections to Krishna cult), intelligence agencies and so-forth, each trying to use the other.

But naturally, there significant limits on how much and how long each of infiltration be effective. A infiltrator from X sent to gain control of Y and gaining complete control there of will often identify with Y since leading it give them more power (Stalin was likely a agent of the Czarist secret police before the revolution but he probably wasn't taking orders from them in 1935 etc).

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by sidewndr46 »

sysguest wrote: post #25
coliveira wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scientology is essentially a scheme to get private/incriminating information from very important people. Why the surprise?

damn I wonder how many scientology believers in intel actually believe in scientology... I mean, it shows how much intel agencies can "screen for high intelligence individuals" ?

people believe in scientology as much as they believe in a literature club. If you listen to someone like Tom Cruise's statements he says "I have gotten to where I am today because of Scientology". He doesn't name off specific procedures, treatments, practices, etc. Partially because they are barred from naming them.

But if you're looking for a club you can advance it, I highly suspect Scientology is as quid pro quo as anything else out there. In other words, it's more of a social function than a religion.

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by andrybak »

ensen wrote: post #2

archive that won't hijack your back button https://archive.is/Td9AR

archive.is is one of the domains of archive.today, which used its end users for a DDOS attack on a blog. This caused English Wikipedia to deprecate it with the end goal of blacklisting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by shevy-java »

Not so surprising - we kind of suspected this. Anyone remembers Snowden or Assange?

We have to accept the fact that presently all democracies are merely simulation of a democracy. At the least in the USA; other countries may be a bit better, e. g. Switzerland or the scandinavian countries are somewhat better (though also not to be trusted - see how Sweden pursued Assange).

Perhaps this is how things always end? Democracies are kind of like an obsolete model when you compare it to authoritarianism (assuming the USA would still be a democracy rather than a tech-corporate-fascist country run by a corrupt elite of superrich).

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by shevy-java »

whimsicalism wrote: post #38

Edited title to be more sensationalist - this is a Seattle local thing > The Seattle Shield website states that its mission “is to provide a collaborative and information-sharing environment between the Seattle Police Department and public/private partners in the Seattle area. Seattle Shield members assist Seattle Police Department efforts to identify, deter, defeat or mitigate potential acts of terrorism by reportin…

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Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by verdverm »

booleandilemma wrote: post #31

Having a coalition of mega corporations all allied with each other isn't any better than having a strong government. Both are dangerous to personal liberties. I think we're due for a break up of these companies. No more Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. We the people need to start taking power back.

No one is going to save us. I've recently been moved to direct action and started participating in a local indivisible.org group. It's had untold positive impacts on my personal mental state being with people trying to make things better, or at least slow the damage for now. Much of that is from going out and talking to random people on the street, handing out information and having conversations. Also quitting social media at the same time, save one exception for HN.

https://indivisible.org/get-involved/find-a-group/

Re: Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police

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Post by psychoslave »

marcosdumay wrote: post #28
giancarlostoro wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4chan validated in their protests against Scientology was not in my bingo card.

At this point I'm waiting for the aliens appearance in the Epstein files.

Such a low level of expectation of ethical level for non human beings is not fair.
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