make us more safe or has this culture of fear allowed our civil liberties to be eroded too far charlie mcgrath founder bite awake news dot com charlie what do you think about the recent expansion of the t.s.a. now working with local law enforcement to set up these checkpoints. it's terrifying and thanks for having me you know the viper or task force is your dogma part of the saturation safety administration expanding their role in expanding their control using this never ending the security industrial complex you talked a little bit about you know the the correlation between big business and government and it is interesting that michael chertoff who was the former secretary of homeland security and his company chertoff group it actually bears his name lobbyist for o.s.i. who is one of the two companies that makes these naked body scanners and you know you reported one hundred percent right these scans i've been during. this pat down procedure every single time i fly because i absolutely refuse to go through the naked body scanner mainly because i don't believe the technology i don't believe in

thanks for joining us that was charlie mcgrath founder of right awake news dot com. and while the t.s.a. clamps down on your rights at airports across the country one cybersecurity bill after another continues to come up in congress from sopa. apparently u.s. lawmakers are beginning to understand the importance of the internet in the twenty first century but will some understand how many more doors cyberspace opens up there's always the other side of the coin so is new technology actually raising up our society or dumbing us down or harshness of the resident dot com takes that question to the streets of the big apple. in this information sharing digital age is it possible we're dumbing down and not intellectually advancing our society this week let's talk about that do you think it's making society smarter or dumber or why is that because people use more stuff to do stupid things smarter. information sharing information immediately which i think is really important but there's a lot of misinformation being shared to people on the internet they think it must be true o