After Tucson, just watch: internet tracking's next

Regarding yesterday's horrific events in Tucson, see what the FBI says at Yahoo:

Briefing reporters Sunday, FBI Director Robert Mueller reiterated that it was still "premature" to say why Loughner targeted Giffords. But he acknowledged the vast amount of  inflammatory rhetoric on the internet had made it more difficult for law enforcement agencies to identify and track potential threats.

"The ubiquitous nature of the internet means that not only threats, but hate speech and other inciteful speech is much more readily available to individuals than quite clearly it was eight or ten or fifteen years ago," Mueller said. "That absolutely presents a challenge for us, particularly when it results in what would be lone wolves or lone offenders undertaking attacks."

  So it's the internet now that's the reason for the murders yesterday.
  And it's the rhetoric.
  It's not the diseased brain of a psychotic individual.
  Let's not let any good crisis go to waste. 
  You've heard about the internet ID that's coming from the Commerce Department.
  From this website:

In contrast to the benign concepts of Net Neutrality -- which despite right-wing claims to the contrary will not result in a government "takeover" of the Internet or the muzzling of free speech -- NSTIC in fact carries very much those actual risks.

NSTIC will never remain "voluntary" as its proponents claim. It will ultimately put the government firmly into every networked computing device that we use, and become the key mechanism to track users, control access to information, eliminate legitimate anonymity, and otherwise convert the Internet into a tool more suited for future oppression than open communication.

So to Glenn Beck, FOX News, and the various legislators who have been burning so much air time with anti-Net Neutrality rants, take a good look at NSTIC. Even by your own standards, NSTIC is a fire-breathing, city-smashing Godzilla compared with Net Neutrality's Bambi.

And to everyone else who cares about an Open Internet, free expression, and civil liberties, get ready for Internet freedom battles like you've never seen before. The war to protect our freedoms on the Internet has only just begun. 

  Remember Detroit when crack addled Malice Green was beaten with a flashlight by a cop or cops. 
  What did the authorities do? 
  Mayor Coleman convicted the cops by announcing immediately and publicly that Green had been "literally murdered by police." 
  Lawyers now write treatises on "Flashlights and Liability."  
  And police were forbidden from carrying flashlights with c or d size batteries. 
  You know, because they might be used as weapons. Or for defense, or something.
  Just watch.