A new iPhone App with the misleading name ‘PatriotApp’ attempts to draw on the power of the patriot movement, turning smartphone users into a gigantic snitch network.
You might think an app with such a patriotic name might have useful functions like a pocket constitution or quotes from our forefathers. But contrary to the services one might expect, this app allows users to report any ‘suspicious’ behavior directly linking them with top government agencies.
Much like the new DHS program ‘If you see something, say something’ this app is meant to turn average citizens into a network of spies feeding information back to the federal government.
Citizen Concepts, a company formed by insiders from DHS, defines the use of such an app on their homepage:
The goals of Citizen Concepts are to:
* Provide instruction and increase consistency in actions while decreasing variance in human behavior to mitigate risk and error
* Increase the quality, procedure compliance, and efficacy of outcomes
* Provide closed network, high-value content information for collection and action purposes
* To serve civil, government and commercial communities entities
* Provide mechanisms whereby events, processes, and performance can be reviewed retrospectivelyCitizen Concepts delivers a superior product.
We leverage your existing Blackberry, Android or iPhone platform and drive compliance directly to your staff’s mobile device. No manuals to find, nor forms to locate, no wasted time.
Oh goody!
#8 And when will you get that there’s no difference between them?
#15 They’re still thinking this is Dumbya’s admin. That’s how detached from reality your run of the mill dvorak.org lefty loons are.
#18 Now cuba is governed by conservatives. Get some reality baths.
#21 Why? cuba has this in real life, neighbors rattle on neighbors. And since cuba has such great healthcare, this should be a great app.
Sheeple!
BTW, when are you gonna vote Dumbya out of office?
The level of denial of these lefty loons is so big that they rather keep talking about Dumbya than admit they’ve been had and there’s no change.
#31 This way we can start the new avian or swine flu madness earlier.
#40 And got approved by god Steve. Food for thought.
This is a joke, right?
@pedro
Your kidding right? Steve Jobs is at the heart of a cult of personality. He should feel right at home in a police state considering how he runs Apple.
not sure where all these looney lefties get that this is a conservative or republican thing. There aren’t any conservatives in power right now. I’m conservative and work with nothing but and we’re ALL against this sort of thing. We want LESS govt, not more. The left is the proponent of big government and “regulation”
#43 I think when he saw the app, he had an orgasm and fast-tracked it.
You must have been really disappointed in Bush the Lesser since he dramatically GREW the government. Now Obama is doubling down on a losing proposition. We all know this is going to end badly but watching a train wreck in slow motion can be entertaining.
The panic level colors are of course going to have to change to fit in with Apple’s style sheet. We can’t have orange,red, very-very-red (or whatever they are now)
It will have to be something like, buttercup -> ripe aubergine -> sun-dried tomato. It might be tricky for TSA, outside SF at least, to announce we are going to threat level PIMENTO but they will have to learn.
Wikileaks needs to get the list of fucks who download this piece of fascist garbage and post that online. Then these bastards will have something to report every fucking day.
War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength…..
You libs ready to scrape that Obama sticker off the Prius yet?
Sounds like something out of a SciFi horror movie and it will only get worse. Watch and see
I can do a much better comparison than East Germany!
In Venice they have letter boxes built into the palaces so people could turn each other in.
They look like this: http://www.zormeir.com/italy/mouthy.htm
Forget about the app. The real atrocity is how they tortured the English language.
“Provide instruction and increase consistency in actions while decreasing variance in human behavior to mitigate risk and error”
Ugh!
# 44 jman said “The left is the proponent of big government and ‘regulation’”
Because we all know that big banks, big media, the car companies, the oil companies, big agra, big pharma (about a half a dozen players in each field,) ALL have a proven track record at caring for the consumer.
Conglomerate tool!
My advice to you is 1) Move, 2) “Buy Guns NOT Antacids,” or “learn to like getting f*cked in your bleeding wound.”
I’m going to have to increase my data plan to make use of that government waste button.
#53 for the win!
Fortunately, I don’t have any type of easily portable device that accepts “aps”, and neither does Mrs. Kravitz.
I ask this question after every election: “Did we elect anybody?
The answer is of course: “yes”.
The conclusion is inevitably: “Then we lost.”
ELECTIONS bring out people who see something to gain by getting elected.
You’ll never get anybody else from the election process.
That would be like expecting people to suddenly fart daisies.
What you get from the distant end of the digestive process is shit. Its always been shit. It will always be shit. It couldn’t be anything but shit. Doesn’t matter what you ate. You get shit.
If you want a fair and representative government, make it like a 4 year term jury duty with the name of ALL citizens picked out of a big hat.
Four years, you’re in and then you’re OUT.
That gets rid of:
• lobbying, after all they can’t have a cadre of cronies to payoff, while raping anyone who isn’t “part of the inner circle”,
• putting in charge idiot lawyers and ex-lawyers who’s only reaction to anything is to pass another law,
• having idiotic distractions dreamt up by some cadre of cronies to try to make the populace lose focus,
• pork-barrel politicians,
• corrupt politicians,
• greedy politicians,
• ideologue politicians
• party-followers (like camp followers of old but slimier,)
• YES men.
The system has a glaring flaw. Open your eyes.
#48 Why do you single out fascists? There’s something for everyone.
The first row is for fascist/lefty loons. The second row for eco-nuts and the third one for plain nuts/agoraphobics
Has anyone else noticed the vastly reduced posts since Obama has become GWB?
Check out Team Patriot, the yahoos behind this company. It speaks volumes that they toss out acronyms like DOD and DHS so casually.