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While millions of Americans fret over how it can be possible that their data and phone calls can be eavesdropped without a warrant by thousands of low level NSA analysts (some even without High School diplomas), the rest of the world can fret over who or what protects them from the prying eyes of the Netplex without the benefit of one of these.
Afterall, 99.99% of the world's internet traffic passes through the good old USA does it not?
And if Google and Facebook are selling your data to Coca Cola and JP Morgan, what makes anyone think they won't sell it to the snoops?
And what is this statutory carrier indemnification we keep hearing about?
And, BTW, how the fuck do they know who is "foreign" and who is not anywho?
Do you remember having to show your birth certificate, drivers license or passport when you opened your Google or Facebook account?
Someone should ask the Vice Chairman of Booz Allen these questions since, evidently, he is the Former Director of the NSA.
To my Dad and all you fringe low brow Zero Hedge Dads...
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Citizens of the globe, please do not worry, not having the benefit of the Bill of Rights really does not make much of a difference...
redact that one on the right to say "you have nothing to hide" simple declarative
Stupendously good and on-target political art and humour from William Banzai ... WB7 certainly understands the criminal Google Inc a lot better than Google pimp Reggie Middleton !
Funny thing about Americans and their 'Constitution' and 'Bill of Rights Amendments' that they love ...
There is yet little awareness among Americans, that their Constitution is in fact dead, when corrupt US judges have unlimited powers to say those rights do not apply ... When US federal judges are even calling up people on the telephone and telling them their freedom of speech is banned, that they will be jailed under the judges' unlimited 'contempt of court' powers if they don't shut up ...
Americans are fed a lie that their 'highest power' is the Supreme Court
But that is not true ... the US Constitution puts Congress as superior, with unlimited, unquestioned power to remove any US Federal Judge or Supreme Court Justice for mere lack of 'good behaviour', for not honouring the Constitution
But that power is not used, as most of Congress is corrupted by oligarchs, while Congresspeople are murdered or extorted from time to time (5 US Congresspeople murdered or suspiciously dead since the 1970s)
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The important but unknown recent story re US Constitutional Rights, is the extortion and threats of murder against US Congressman John Conyers, head of the US Congress House Judiciary Committee in charge of impeaching and removing corrupt US federal judges and Presidents ... It took place at the time Obama took office in 2008-09.
Black man from Detroit Conyers was naive, he had bought into the Obama hype, and he thought that with Obama's inauguration, he could move against the bribed federal judges who had jailed all those innocent black people, with Conyers' files proving the innocence of so many people in prison under the bribed judges.
So with Obama's co-operation, they threatened to murder John Conyers, reminding him of how they murdered US Judiciary Committee Congressman Sonny Bono in the 1990s ... and they jailed Conyers' wife under politically-motivated charges just to drive the point home. 'Make a move against the bribed judges, and you die,' they said. Conyers agreed to stay silent just to stay alive, and because Google Inc. would just spread lies about why and how he died, with nothing accomplished for the Constitution.
And then they shot dead US Federal Judge John Roll in 2011 after he ruled against Obama ... barely covered by US media, but a good warning to all other US judges. Play ball or die.
That is America.
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What we better understand in Europe - the heritage of the French Revolution - is that no piece of paper or 'Constitution' protects freedom, precisely because courts are totally corruptible.
The only protection for freedom is, like in the French Revolution, open populist rebellion - storming the Bastille, people in the streets, demonstrations, general strikes, borderline riots, bringing governments down by popular activity.
We still have that freedom in Europe, we hit the streets, and our judges here are still quite restrained and tamed. There is little fear in Europe of judges, courts, and lawyers, and there is almost no one in jail here versus the American gulag. That is the big difference now, even given all our EU shady nonsense.
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Americans have their fantasies about their 300 million guns (we have about 100 million privately-owned guns here in Europe, which Americans never seem to know ... I have a .45 pistol myself in Brussels) ... but the fact is that guns are only a last final resort, when the Nazis are at your door, and you are ready to die fighting like in the Jewish Warsaw uprising of 1943. Aside from a few Americans like Joe Stack, there seems very few Americans yet ready to die in an act of resistance, and 300 million guns seem to be silent while US fascism accelerates.
Americans lack the intermediate step of effective people power in the streets ... US courts and police are malicious and vengeful, and corrupt US media makes sure that any populist action has minimal impact on other US citizens. Popular movements like Occupy, choke and die in America.
The US Constitution has been dead a long, long time ... in seed it probably died in 1863 at Gettysburg, when the US Civil War imperialist party destroyed secession rights, probably the only effective recourse against national US fascism ... It was a shame the US Constitution did not make those rights explicit, like our explicit rights to secede from the European Union here.
Thoughtful Americans at times say that America's only hope is some rebel pro-Constitution colonels in the military, who would quickly act to arrest the President, Congress, Supreme Court, and their own generals in a military coup ... That sadly may be correct.
The "right" to secede from the EU has never been tested. No one has been willing to push their luck here. Wonder why?
Oh, the French love to riot. They always riot when some socialist bennie is cut off or limited. They always want moar. But you could get real fascism in the EU in a heartbeat. All that is required is the full sovereign unification of the EU into a true Federal entity under some financial emergency scenario. The one thing limiting EU-wide fascism today is the fact that the EU Federal Government does not have the "military power", and has only partial control of the "money power" (as it does not lay or collect direct taxes, or borrow on its own full faith and credit). There is also no true EU Federal court system. Yes there is a single court, but not a court system. The EU is still a weak confederation or an international organization, not a true sovereign federation.
andrew, a riot and a demonstration are two completely different things. you have to witness them to be aware of the profound difference
best example: the way the German Democratic Republic population "took the street" and forced the collapse of their regime - those weren't riots, at all
btw, yes, the EU is a weak confederation bordering to an international org, but I don't understand where your argument is leading to, particularly when it comes to "EU fascism"
which country is anyway a true candidate for EU secession? only England comes to mind, and even there I don't see it that clear cut
USA is already a fascist state (NSA,FBI,DHS,TSA, shredded constitution etc. ) and a terrorist state (using drones to kill innocent civilians). Our voting is a choice between Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola: nothing changes.
The only protection for freedom is, like in the French Revolution, open populist rebellion.
Since people can't remain in a permanent state of 'open populist rebellion,' the only long-term protection for freedom is a government that is small and poorly funded.
Permanent war finance (the Federal Reserve, which turns 100 this year) has produced unending external wars, and unceasing internal wars on the people (the war on drugs, the war on money laundering, the war on terrorism).
Destroy the Fed, and we destroy the funding of our own oppression.
Really? If there was no Fed, Congress could issue dollars directly through the Treasury, a power known as Seigniorage. That is how a MMT style system would function. This was done dring the Civil War (with greenbacks) to finance the war.
Never under estimate the deep yearning to stay free that resides in the heart of a few patriots. The 1st American Revolution was fought by just a few, the majority of the residents/sheeple of the day were hoodwinked into supporting King George.
DaddyO
PS: Thanks for all you do WB7!! It is much appreciated...
Unfortunately, most were enticed by the prospect of land beyond the forced British border to the west of the colonies. No British, no border.
The war of 1812 was also ignited primarily to stop the British harassment of colonists/Americans moving west.
I really, really wish it was that simple, DaddyO. I don't doubt the resolve of anyone 'yearning to stay free', but consider:
"...Never under estimate the deep yearning to stay free that resides in the heart of a few patriots..."
Never under estimate the deep yearning to stay on the dole or the yearning to keep one's governmet or government-contractor job that resides in the hearts of the majority of Americans today.
"...The 1st American Revolution was fought by just a few..."
And those few were arguably the equivalent of the middle class at the time. Poor breadwinners did lot leave their families to starve so they could fight for independence. Rich guys didn't care who won or who died. The Indians that were still alive just wanted all the mean-ass European terrorists of both sides to leave.
"...the majority of the residents/sheeple of the day were hoodwinked into supporting King George..."
I think you're mis-characterizing their sentiment here, DaddyO. Extreme support - colonial loyalists willing to take up arms for the king against the patriotic terrorists - were few and far between. I would argue that the majority of colonial residents/sheeple were resigned to tolerate British rule because that's just the way it was - it had little practical effect on them day-to-day. If other colonists saw a direct financial benefit from British rule, then no hoodwinking was needed.
'Patriotism' to an unfortunately large number of Americans is little more than CNN clips of frat boys painting themselves like flags and drunkenly chanting 'USA... USA...' when Team Stazi scores a kill.
The USA has no patented claim on 'yearning to stay free' as my non-American friends are quick to point out. It's especially infuriating for other countries to see suggestions of that being uniquely American. Especially when this country is so quick to deprive citizens of other countries of their constitutional rights in the name of protecting ours.
No German telephone conversation or internet use is exempt from the prying eyes of the NSA.
How much outrage have you heard from U.S. citizens about the NSA jackboot of security stomping on the face of German citizens? None. They're foreigners so it's perfectly legal in our rigged legal system. Instead, the few Americans that even care are only whining about the possibility that a US CITIZEN is being spied on. I'm damn ashamed to admit I'm a U.S. citizen.
I point this out simply to remind you what a loaded word 'patriot' has become. The freedoms in rights we codified in our constitution and bill of rights belong to everyone on earth. They were synonymous with 'your country' 200 years ago. During that time, 'your country' has come to mean the U.S. government. Most people today understand the meaning of the word patriot as someone willing to die for U.S government causes. They simply assume those have something to do with freedom.
Study it!
http://prism-break.org/
Enslave the children for Ben and his Banker friends. They need their soul's, as they have no soul themselves...