Tag Archives: Kafkaesque

The Security State: An Ever Bigger and Dumber Dinosaur

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“If this ‘Enemy of the State’ monstrosity is good for anything at all, it’s keeping track of people the regime already knows it doesn’t like for political reasons. Imagine A. Mitchell Palmer with a facial recognition database of IWW and Socialist Party members, and you get the idea. ‘Eugene Debs spotted at the A&P — dispatch paddy wagon immediately!’ But even for this application, the actual implementation would probably be more like Information Retrieval in ‘Brazil.’ Some database error would result in Eugene Bebs being arrested instead.”

http://c4ss.org/content/12003

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‘Work’ as Low as the TSA’s

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“New York City hires the otherwise unemployable to stroll the streets peering through the clear plastic of citizens’ trash bags for infractions of the numerous and bizarre recycling rules [‘wrapping paper (remove ribbon and tape)’ is recyclable, but not ‘paper with a lot of tape or glue’ — and who decides what ‘a lot’ is?]. Fines for residences start at $25, but they zoom as high as $500 for ‘four or more Notices within a six-month period.’ You can contest your fines by hiring an attorney or waiting hours for your case to be called ‘at any ECB [Environmental Control Board] Location,’ as the ‘Notice of Violation’ advises.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/117583.html

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RomneyCare 2.0

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“79% of the newly insured are on public programs. Health costs will consume some 54% of the state budget in 2012, up from about 24% in 2001.  Now, all Massachusetts doctors, hospitals and other providers must register with a new state bureaucracy, as a condition of licensure, to track and report financial performance metrics. An 11-member board known as the Health Policy Commission will use the data to set and enforce rules to ensure that total Massachusetts health spending, grows no more than projected gross state product through 2017.  No registered provider is allowed to make ‘any material change to its operations or governance structure without the commission’s approval.'”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443687504577563000563259044.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

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