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27 Edward Snowden Quotes About U.S. Government Spying That Should Send A Chill Up Your Spine
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Would you be willing to give up what Edward Snowden has given up? He has given up his high paying job, his home, his girlfriend, his family, his future and his freedom just to expose the monolithic spy machinery that the U.S. government has been secretly building to the world. He says that he does not want to live in a world where there isn't any privacy. He says that he does not want to live in a world where everything that he says and does is recorded. Thanks to Snowden, we now know that the U.S. government has been spying on us to a degree that most people would have never even dared to imagine.
Up until now, the general public has known very little about the U.S. government spy grid that knows almost everything about us. But making this information public is going to cost Edward Snowden everything. Essentially, his previous life is now totally over. And if the U.S. government gets their hands on him, he will be very fortunate if he only has to spend the next several decades rotting in some horrible prison somewhere.
There is a reason why government whistleblowers are so rare. And most Americans are so apathetic that they wouldn't even give up watching their favorite television show for a single evening to do something good for society. Most Americans never even try to make a difference because they do not believe that it will benefit them personally. Meanwhile, our society continues to fall apart all around us. Hopefully the great sacrifice that Edward Snowden has made will not be in vain. Hopefully people will carefully consider what he has tried to share with the world.
The following are 27 quotes from Edward Snowden about U.S. government spying that should send a chill up your spine...
#1 "The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate."
#2 "...I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents."
#3 "The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to."
#4 "...I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."
#5 "The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything."
#6 "With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your e-mails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your e-mails, passwords, phone records, credit cards."
#7 "Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere... I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President..."
#8 "To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government, or someone that they suspect of terrorism, they are collecting YOUR communications to do so."
#9 "I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinized most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians."
#10 "...they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them."
#11 "Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded. ...it's getting to the point where you don't have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life."
#12 "Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest."
#13 "Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state."
#14 "I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
#15 "I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity."
#16 "I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong."
#17 "I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act."
#18 "There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich."
#19 "The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things... And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that... because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny."
#20 "I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant."
#21 "You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk."
#22 "I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me."
#23 "We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be."
#24 "I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end."
#25 "There’s no saving me."
#26 "The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night."
#27 "I do not expect to see home again."
Would you make the same choice that Edward Snowden made? Most Americans would not. One CNN reporter says that he really admires Snowden because he has tried to get insiders to come forward with details about government spying for years, but none of them were ever willing to...
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies. I always begged them to write about it or to let me do so while protecting their identities. They refused to come forward and believed my efforts to shield them would be futile. "I don't want to lose my security clearance. Or my freedom," one told me.
And if the U.S. government has anything to say about it, Snowden is most definitely going to pay for what he has done. In fact, according to the Daily Beast, a directorate known as "the Q Group" is already hunting Snowden down...
The people who began chasing Snowden work for the Associate Directorate for Security and Counterintelligence, according to former U.S. intelligence officers who spoke on condition of anonymity. The directorate, sometimes known as “the Q Group,” is continuing to track Snowden now that he’s outed himself as The Guardian’s source, according to the intelligence officers.
If Snowden is not already under the protection of some foreign government (such as China), it will just be a matter of time before U.S. government agents get him.
And how will they treat him once they find him? Well, one reporter overheard a group of U.S. intelligence officials talking about how Edward Snowden should be "disappeared". The following is from a Daily Mail article that was posted on Monday...
A group of intelligence officials were overheard yesterday discussing how the National Security Agency worker who leaked sensitive documents to a reporter last week should be 'disappeared.'
Foreign policy analyst and editor at large of The Atlantic, Steve Clemons, tweeted about the 'disturbing' conversation after listening in to four men who were sitting near him as he waited for a flight at Washington's Dulles airport.
'In Dulles UAL lounge listening to 4 US intel officials saying loudly leaker & reporter on #NSA stuff should be disappeared recorded a bit,' he tweeted at 8:42 a.m. on Saturday.
According to Clemons, the men had been attending an event hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.
As an American, I am deeply disturbed that the U.S. government is embarrassing itself in front of the rest of the world like this.
The fact that we are collecting trillions of pieces of information on people all over the planet is a massive embarrassment and the fact that our politicians are defending this practice now that it has been exposed is a massive embarrassment.
If the U.S. government continues to act like a Big Brother police state, then the rest of the world will eventually conclude that is exactly what we are. At that point we become the "bad guy" and we lose all credibility with the rest of the planet.
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Well said fuckitall, that's my theory on the DHS guns & ammo.
Hell yea, all the recruited "hoodlums and punks" (gangs, illegals, etc) would swell his 3 million to 7 million easily.
Would they fight on govt's side? Hell yea, most get govt checks free benefits all that stuff now. Absolutely they'd be loyal. And they'd love going after those middle-class "crackers" they hate with a passion.
100,000 (if he's lucky) disorganized leaderless chaotic "patriots" against 3 million well-armed govt goons doing it for a paycheck and 4 more million recruited "hoodlums and punks" doing it cause they love it.
That's the real odds, and that's why those idiot "patriots" are Darwin award candidates.
While they sat on their gutless pussy-whipped asses saying "it's not time yet", govt was busy building a huge force against them they have no clue about, and that 4 million have no "rules of engagement" if you catch my drift. Let's just say wives and daughters would be "at risk".
No, those idiot "patriots" haven't thought things thru very well. They have no clue what they'd be up against.
That DHS ammo sure didnt end up at Border & Customs Protection in Arizona according to my 16 year Border Patrol supervising agent neighbor. He is struggling to find ammo to qualify.
i wonder how many people would actually be better off without any of the government security agencies at all..
i don't mean just in money terms (much less taxes), but in sleeping better (knowing they won't have to plea bargain despite innocence), filling out less forms, getting on well with foreigners, standing around in queues, undressing in public, fewer travel disruptions and city shutdowns, server interruptions, DHS compliance, etc etc
oh well, world we are made to live in because 1 in 20 million might be a bastard i guess..just have to think that a fewer number working smart is better than pissing off 19,999,999 (less those that are chasing that one bastard which is what 50,000?)
My question is how many people have used the NSA to gain insider information and make fortunes in the market.
Imagine knowing what a top accounting firms M&A support group is working on. th elist in endless.
Snowden should have alleged NSA types are abusing their power to manipluate Wall Street and get rich. Would have been interesting to watch the spin meisters respond to that allegation. And tell me that does not happen. How tempting ....and no one really gets hurt.
How many of you did not thin k how such knowledge could be used to game the system
Correct.
The NSA Stasi system brought in under previous regimes and continued by pet O'bomba exists to make profit for international financiers, monopolists, as per their Trilateral Commission agenda, funded by the likes of Rockefeller, Rothschild, and their old monarchies, and the vatican.
The usual suspects; the usual freaks.
Fienstein and Pelosi are light years ahead of you ....
I heard first-hand accounts of taps at major phone and internet hubs back in the late '90s. Then there was Echelon, Carnivore, and Total Information Awareness. Does everyone remember John Poindexter and his role in TIA? You think that just went away after it was exposed?
Anyone who has any expectation of any privacy when communicating using any electronic media is simply ignorant, and if this serves as a wake-up call for what some of us have known for many years, it would be a good thing.
ACLU, I'm looking at you. Nice to see you finally got off your asses and decided to sue to Fed Gov. My only question is: what took you so long? This one guy? Snowden provided all that information you were missing? Unlikely, I think.
As for Snowden, he is IMO a hero of the first order. Like Bradley Manning.
This could be bigger than big tobacco lawsuit
http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/06/11/nine-companies-tied-to-prism-obama-will-be-smacked-with-class-action-lawsuit-wednesday
:-)
And the rest. This is feast day for lawyers. Unfortunately, the same legal types who assisted the wrongdoers.
'Kill all the lawyers,' said Shakespeare, making a political point, not a murderous declaration.
So, Tyler, is it finally time for a guest post or two from Alex Jones of Prison Planet fame?
No we don't need his spittle on this blog thank you, I am just fine picking infowars for the occasional nugget.
Fuck AJ. That plagiarizing douchebag is STRATFOR, a zionist shill married to another one, and is a bought-and-paid-for gatekeeping disinfo creton whose best skill is ramping people into angry fits by blowing up in emotionally heated tirades. Let me tell you how I really feel.
What fucking credibility? Do as we say or we'll just bomb your ass.
"If the U.S. government continues to act like a Big Brother police state, then the rest of the world will eventually conclude that is exactly what we are. At that point we become the "bad guy" and we lose all credibility with the rest of the planet"
DO YOU THINK THE REST OF THE WORLD GIVES A RAT'S ASS FLYING FUCK ABOUT THE USA? WE ARE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD. ASK THE AL QUEDA GUY WE ARE PAYING IN SYRIA.. THE ONE WHO KIILED A SOLDIER AND ATE HIS HEART... ASK THE BENGHAZI AL QUEDA WE WERE PAYING. YEAH THE ONES WHO CASTRATED AND SODOMIZED THE AMBASSADOR...AND DUMPED HIS CORPSE IN A DITCH...THEY ARE GOING TO SAUNTER ACROSS THE TEX MEX BORDER AND DO THE SAME HERE.
We're getting lined up for WWIII when the entire muslim world, plus russia and china attack israel. and you worry about losing credibility with the rest of the planet... We are being led by a bunch of MORONS and more than half the people in the USA are idiots. The political morons have turned the program intended for foreigners/terrorists AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE USA... that is Snowden's point... and the administration cant refute it.
Don't believe the alleged acts of cannibalism or masochism. The Al Qaeda guys aren't into that. It's just part of the narrative to stir up American emotions.
walkure..... nice try amigo
The terrorist from Farouq Battalion, FSA, Nusra Front, Al Qaeda, Peaceful Protester, Freedom Fighter, Colored Revolution, Death Squad, whatever name you like to label them, who ate the heart of the dead soldier is identified as an employee at Qatari Aljazeera news station. Remember that the US alone paid, as per their confession, $510 million Tax Payer dollars to these scum, and David Cameron, her majesty's poodle wants to give them armored vehicles among other 'non-lethal' aid like communication devices, surface to air missiles.. etc. The people of the world don't hate you because of your 'freedom' and 'democracy' you lack back home, they hate you because you hire these mercenaries to enslave people in the world the same way your bankers and corporations enslave you back home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaaeVGqSO8k
Well thank goodness humans gumming up the cyberveillance will soon be obsolete!
/sarc
What reigns as Most Pathetic is that the enablers of false leadership -- the sycophants and even the pseudo-sycophants -- stand for nothing, and the destruction can happen all on its own, with no purpose, driven by the self-absorbed and their vacuousness.
There is much more "passive destruction" going on here than anyone realizes, or is willing to admit.
problem one: he's one guy. problem two: he's probably part of CIA/NSA spat. problem three: he's in Hong Kong not the USA. problem four: he's out of money. problem five: he abandoned his girlfriend. problem six: the media cycle. problem seven: he's articulate but principled, problem eight: he's up against the whole shebang. we'll see where "it" goes from here but it's hard for me to look at this guy as anything other than a whistleblower which usually means "it's over" no matter the impact he might have which at this point looks relatively insignificant "save for the political implications." we'll see...
perhaps he works for control and is the anti-Obama...........
When the shit was getting ready to hit the fan, Snowden stepped up to the plate.
He's a true hero, a true Patriot, certainly history will see him as far beyond Crispus Attucks......
I think I'm in Trouble.........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRNDQNjCK4
This is strange. Earlier today I was looking at a site to price some 250 cc motorcycles. Now I I see an ad here (to the left of the beginning of the article for this post above) advertising 250 cc motorcycles.
Does anyone else here see that ad?
Duh.....Google is spying on you......
Download Ghostery...
Happens to me all the time...
Snowden catch 22 will show up in Iceland with a girl in a short skirt and a looooooooooooong jacket.
I do not trust Snowden, I don't trust Greenwald.
I'm not quite sure why anyone would be surprised that the U.S. government has access to every communication made.
This has been going on for years.
Nothing new to see here.
Move along.
Quite easy to answer. 'Americans' knowing of something does not mean they trigger a media circus.
It is no surprise that this kind of circus come when there is a negro in the office and when part of the 'american' middle class is slipping down the road.
'Americans' had years to trigger such an outburst. Their duplicity is known and acknowledged.
Considering this AnAnonymous guy can only offer unsupported assertions, you'd think that being unbound by reality he could offer something beyond the same cheap rantings.
How Could you write a movie script better than the one that's playing out now?
PATRIOT Act author suddenly shocked by powers he created
http://americanvision.org/8279/patriot-act-author-suddenly-shocked-by-powers-he-created/
That's because he probably didn't write let alone read it in lawyerize, most of these bills get handed to them from the shadows.
Many people are surprised to hear that banks create the money they lend. That's just crazy conspiracy theory.
I try to explain that to normal people and they just don't get it, it is so amazingly simple that they deny it outright.
I guess this is a fine place to start.
Query Google for the image associated with 27.
Numerology anyone?
So many connections, and so little time.
".... we now know that the U.S. government has been spying on us to a degree that most people would have never even dared to imagine....:
and that is why americans are largely stupid cunts.....the rockefeller nazis setup adolf hitler, murdered president kennedy, and blew up the wtc....it is a profoundly moronic idea that someone is concerned about the american nazi state losing credibility.....everyone the world wide knows the criminality of american state...america lost credibility decades ago and only brainwashed turds are worried about a loss of credibility.....what clueless dithering pixilated cunts...
and it is not just att, verizon, google, and facebook spying on you for the government, but your bank.....
the number of murders on the hands of these thugs is staggering....read mary's mosaic - or my review of it on my blog - to get a sense of the murderous criminality of the cia and its paymasters...
as i stated before, americans owe richard nixon and adolf hitler a huge apology...
snowden is a huge american hero - perhaps the only one since smedley butler exposed the wall street nazis as the perpetrators of war and terrorism....
Item # 19 ..."Turnkey tyranny".
The same phrase used by NSA whistleblower Binney in this piece:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-06-11/spying-update
To non-American Zero Hedge readers: Don't worry, this does not concern you (sarc).
Definitively right. US Americans might be concerned by their government spying on them but they will keep showing an adamant support to their government spying on anyone else accross the world.
'Americanism' at work.
So yeah, people outside the US are not concerned. No matter what, they will keep being spied on.
Kind of similar to the droning dead business.
I dont know if you realize how low quality your narrative is.
Is there a narrative? I see these rants as mindless wanderings.
False Flag
We've know about this surveillance shit for years, going back to Raptor, now Stellar Wind, blah blah blah blah.
The government is blowing their own cover just to see if the American population even cares. They don't. Nothing will come of this and in two weeks everything will be back to normal, with the government emboldened to pursue even more survalience with zero worry.
Next is anal probes at the airport, well, just becuase...
You may be right. The Boston Marathon bombings were an exercise to see how Americans would react if the government shut down a major city and performed illegal searches. Americans didn't react. Americans are brain dead.
Muslim Guru Fetullah Gulen and 'The Boston Achilles-Heel Jihadist [Tsarnaev Brothers?] Massacre?'
Who would have guessed this mild manner jingoist-chameleon, a moderate sufist collaborating[?] as the mastermind of america's jihadist movement, both here and abroad? Can it be?! Where was our 'NSA'? when Russia red-flagged more than once the brothers,... and the trigger happy FBI agent that goes to Florida on a liquidation quest?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fethullah_G%C3%BClen
You decide,... "Boston and the CIA 'Snafu': The grey eminence behind Turkey's Erdogan and the AKP" http://info-wars.org/node/1442 and if link fails: http://www.voltairenet.org/article178623.html
and this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Fuller *(Uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev is[was] married to Fuller's daughter)
thankyou as always Tyler :-))
All of the politicians justifying the rightness of these programs by using the excuse that we need to keep these secrets because we don't want to give the terrorist our "game plan" yet we seem to have no problem in announcing years in advance when we will pull out our armies from a theatre of war. Hmmm... wouldn't that be a bigger more necessary secret to keep in order to safeguard our troops then PRISM and the NSA activities?
FUCK OBAMA
FUCK THE NSA
Come get me at my mountain property at Moncove Lake Road, right across from the intersection of Cove Mountain Rd
they just need 1 drone and the job is done. i want to see you firing down the drone.
Declaring war on "islamists" would have helped tremendously; declaring a "war on terror" empowers a delusional marxist like Hussien Obama with the power to label those who oppose his primitive marxist superstitions as "terrorists".
There are simple truths in the world - one of them being that of the delusional tendencies of multattoes documented as far back as Thomas Jefferson in "Notes on the Sate of Virginia".
You're usually more coherent than this. Race has nothing to do with this anymore than republican and democrat have anything to do with this.
Race has everything to do with the state of affairs. US american programs to spy on people has been existing for years. Yet the outcry only comes today. Defection only happens today.
'American'indo europeans hate so much on negroes they cant bear the very idea that negroes can behave the 'american' way.
As shown by reality, it is not so much the spying that is reviled, 'americans'had decades to revile it. It is that a negro in the office perpetuates it.
The way 'americans' work.
Here this AnAnonymous guy displays more confusion about reality, a typical trait of Sino-Pictish-Eurolantic-Indopean-Hantarcticans.
His bizarre theories about Easter Island seem sensible in comparison.
hey, i am gonna stop entertaining the idea of being a moral insignificunt, you know someone who gets fucked and thinks they're being taken, and look at this as a job prospect. if your listening, i'll be your ear. they won't come for me because i'll be wearing their face when i come for you.
What concerns me is that Snowden couldn’t see any better course of action to reconcile his concerns than the drastic one he took. I’m sure he could imagine better alternatives and would have followed any one of them if they existed. I’m sure he was well aware of the bullshit approach Dianne Feinstein recommends, which basically amounts to writing your Congressman and hoping that someone other than a college intern reads and responds to it with a boilerplate letter after six months. Perhaps before publically condemning and crucifying Snowden in his absence, Dianne could provide us with one example where her recommended approach ever produced the kind of results Snowden got in 48 hours.
When you really want to get somewhere, it’s never a good idea to begin by trying to walk through a brick wall or into a preset trap. Snowden is doing the best job he can of using the successful tactics he has observed for years among his peers and colleagues. Indirectly, he is reflecting to us just how different the rules they follow are from the rest of us. I find it strange that Dianne is surprised and offended when someone who works for the NSA chooses to act in his best interest like people who work for the NSA.
It's obvious for any American that has the guts to admit it. The facists/corporatist/globalists/gangsters/etc that run the world and the U.S. gov't have focused their power on destroying the only remaining entity that presents a threat to their plan:
That is - the average American citizen that is fully aware of his/her consitutional rights. Specifically, the First, Second, and Fourth amendment to name a few.
Consider that Obama isn't even 5 months into his second term, and he has the Douchebag Boehnor and all the other wimpy asswipes in the republican party backing him on the NSA spy program and any other instrusion in the name of fighting terrorism.
In a few months this latest atrocity will be forgotten and the U.S. gov't will move ahead with it's next stage in it's war to subjugate American citizens with the knowledge and guts to resist.
You piss on the republicans, deservedly so, but what about all the democrats, save, what, 16 representatives, that vote lock step for everthing this fuck brings to the table. Until democrats get on board with the idea that their guys are bad fucks, too, nothing will change.
You're right of course. I guess I'm tougher on republicans because up until recently I used to be one:(
the only remaining entity that presents a threat to their plan:
That is - the average American citizen that is fully aware of his/her consitutional rights. Specifically, the First, Second, and Fourth amendment to name a few.
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Made me laugh. So good. What fantasy. 'Americans' unleashed.
The average 'american' citizen is not the threat to the servants. He is the master.
The servants have been doing the bidding of their master, and keep doing so.
The issue is that some among 'americans' thought they will be part of the master race for eternity. Reality knocks at door: they wont.
The firmly installed 'american' middle class supports spying. It will protect them from the disgruntled former 'american' middle class members.
"No longer one of us", as 'americans' say.
"the firmly installed 'american' middle class supports spying. It will protect them from the disgruntled former 'american' middle class members."
Speak for yourself. I'm pretty cynical but perhaps not so much as you. There are still millions out there that give a shit.
Analyounymouse is not pretty cynical - he's plain stupid. You will come to know him better, if you stay around ....
The lack of ethics and attempt to use espionage and blackmail, intimidation and retaliation is not lost on the Chinese businessman. One thing about America, change is just one election away. Rapid response team kicks in when there are issues. Problem solving is their area of expertise, the challenge, the research, the notoriety of presenting logical explanations and rational solutions is why America pre 9-11 was the greatest country in the world.
Just an election away. Did you hear me? I watched Tiananamen Square unfold onlive TV. I watched Bernard Shaw, correspondent for CNN, shaking in fear, cowering while reporting the scene outside his hotel window.
God dam you. Your mission to discredit a nation who gave you a country you want to steal describes the character of a weak man in a weak linked chain.
Why they let you go on about your anti-Americanism cliches and personal opinions is beyond comprehension. You add no facts, no attempt to become a propeller of unity, just sheer contempt, you despise Americans mutherfucker and I despise you for having so little to say and taking up so much room to say it.
You'll miss the boat you know. Just like always. So busy thinking about the wrong thing. The element of surprise gets you every time. History repeats itself and nature of man ensures it. We can only stomach so much and then it's do or die trying. China has a million man army to protect it's govt from the people. We all know this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t959SEpUaEw
Who gave up? (Tianamen Square 5 minutes of sequence of events)
Made me laugh. So good. What fantasy. AnAnonymous unleashed.
Could propagandists prepare better propaganda? It is like hiding genetalia behind thin air.
Actually, Chinese citizenism citizens are so duplicitous and their propaganda so cheap, cheating is useless to trash them.
Still restating facts established one hundred years ago is enough to break their faces.
Admittedly, the inequality in forces between 'AnAnonymystical' propaganda and facts is such that one feels unfairness in this.
Without flinging dung to back up their speech, Chinese citizenism propagandists are weak and easily crushed.
Welcome to an AnAnonymystical world. Release your mother's dog stinky fart, you'll see.
Suspect there has just been a major incident at the Superior, WI refinery; owned by Calumet Specialty Products Partners.
New Google homepage
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1000525_10201082161033668_85...
Eric Holder - We must BRAINWASH People About Guns!
Logically, when peasants can only throw stones instead of lead. Central planning Banking objectives becomes easier.
Double Post
Yes, everything on your computer, cell phone or other communication equipment is out there now. Will the freedom of information act give access to this data? Perhaps, but the real threat is blackmail. Anyone with anything to hide will be a potential victim.The liberals have the upper hand at the moment but remember what goes around comes around.
Don't expect Congress to do much about this, they are already suffering from blackmailitis.
How did Snowden tell us anything we didn't already know? This is news to the idiots that can't believe their government would ever do this. Guess what? They'll be back to sleep in a week, and the government will have cleared another bar.
Hell, I'm amazed that they don't record every single phone call - cell or land - made in the world.
Been going on for years. But now under a negro president. That is all the difference.
What do you know of the difference? I didn't see you anywhere around back in them days ...
For 'AnAnonymists', there is no before. Only humanity erring on the path of tyranny, deception and apathy. The history of man starts on 1949,October,1th. In the Chinese citizenism world, they do not teach about the previous civilizations. They teach about dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs. Humanity without the guidance of 'AnAnonymism'. Humanity gifted with Chinese citizenism.
The AnAnonymous Easter Island time line.
Wikileaks where are you when we need you?
Has that 'american' rapist made it out of his ambassy?
"Innocent until proven guilty" does not bother you the slightest bit, right? This attitude could backfire very, very badly ...
Justice or even fairness is beyond Chinese citizenism citizens by now: they have grown richer and richer through injustice and unfairness way too much for them to consider justice and fairness.
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
The FBI, IRS, DOJ, DHS, NSA, CIA, the Supreme Court, and the White House are no longer a legitimate governing body, having broken their governing contract with the people (the Constitution) on so many occasions, the Federal government has voided its right to govern by breach of contract.
The fact that every State Government has allowed this to continue on so long a time, renders their governing contract just as void and illegitimate as the Federal Government's.
It's way past time to re-secure our God-given inalienable rights. "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
You shoot first. I got your back.
I agree with your comment except for the part about God given inalieable rights. If they were God given, everyone created by God would be born free. That is not the case. Rights we used to enjoy were fought for, by human beings who gave up their tomorrows for peoples' todays.
My parents lived through the Nazi occupation. Canadian soldiers liberated them.
I for one look forward to the renaissance of good old fashioned letter writing. I'm sure the post office would welcome it. Fountain pen optional and one-time pad cypher for those very special occasions. It will be quaint.
the old fashioned metadata of your letter is photographed and fed to NSA. NSA will know every letter you sent and can algo-recognize your handwriting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7bSYG0qL3Y&feature=player_detailpage
If your reading this then you are the resistance ( except for all the alphbets ,Sknet, prsim and others)
Goldilocks economy just around the corner.
New Math Makes It Easier to Lower the Unemployment Rate80,000 jobs to be used instead of 150,000 to lower unemployment figures.
Rep. Peter King calls Edward Snowden "a traitor". WhoTF does King think he is? http://tinyurl.com/pusxoot The pot calling the kettle black.
We interrupt your malleable consciousness from the soft effects of tyranny in the US and the hard effects of tyranny occurring in Istanbul to bring you a short assessment of the human condition.
http://www.elliottwavetechnology.com/2013/06/war-on-humanity.html
"At that point we become the "bad guy" and we lose all credibility with the rest of the planet."
Honestly? you're already there.
Is the market going up or down.......what was that ...intercept... ya thats it.
Could someone build me a S&P intercept indicator? Does anything make any sense anymore?
I wonder if Snowden and Greenwald have a strategy here regarding the staggered release of info.
It could well be that they are allowing both the government and tech companies to dig themselves into holes with denials and lies before another batch of damning info is released.
Whistleblower cases tend to unwind the same way and Greenwald and Snowden will be aware of this. I believe that they have a bigger bombshell to drop that is going to cause a serious shit storm...
Greenwald/Guardian have alreay gone public saying that further revelations are being prepared.
Ugly truthes, Fear; a vast majority of Americans are afraid, afraid of terrorists, afraid of losing what they have, afraid to stand up against power, afraid to be singled out, afraid to step out of their comfort zone. The government provides comfort.
The Revolutionary War was fought by a small minority. A clear majority of British subjects were against it, they were afraid to fight for freedom, afraid of independance, afraid to fight because the King from across the ocean provided some comfort. The heroes of that war faced their fear, they were traitors also, wanted for treason and crimes against the King. They faced execution if captured. The few fought for the many.
Change, it won't come from the majority, they are too afraid. Changes will come from the few willing to stand up and risk everything. The majority will watch from the sidelines, afraid. Those in power aren't afraid because they have control, they push the buttons that instill fear because fear is power. Power is addictive. So is fear.
Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.
Good men won't be doing nothing for much longer.
Fear is paralyzing. Also drains energy, mentally and physically and interferes with sleep, appetite, relationships, alertness, function, sex life. This MO is a diabolical one, no question about it. Twisted life into an insane asylum where nothing makes sense yet they tell us "that's the way it happened, we were there." Identifying who exactly is on the payroll and their position is necessary. Moles infiltrate, collect data, spread propaganda. Division of the religions and political parties is blinding them from seeing, the citizens, the enemy is in the house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp3JgWmQHcE
Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode
You will always wonder how it would have been had you (not) lied.
Hide what you have to hide, tell what you have to tell.
Problems multiply as you continue to lie.
Never again, you swore the time before.
People are waiting for compelling leadership, I think.
I think most of you already know, but I found now Operation Troll the #NSA http://on.ssh.io/17GpHLP
I'm ready. 50 e-mails will go :-)
Now I know why the goobermint bought up all the ammo...
One Nation Under...Carlyle? http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/one-nation-under-carlyle/
I live in the UK 4 miles from Menwith Hill listening base, I know lots of employees there because they take their kids to the same school as my kids go to, Menwith Hill is the biggest listening base in the world outside the US , it listens to every phone call in Europe , sees every text , email, facebook post , fax etc etc .... I regularly send texts to friends such as " the Bombs are all planted at MENWITH HILL, they will explode when the fissile material is detonated , when the purple parrot flies in darkness" I get a huge kick at the thought of those fuckers in the basement with their headphones on scrutinising every communication I have sent because ALL messages are filtered for key words , everyone should start sending spoof terror texts ... flood the fuckers with shit
John Boehner: Eric Snowden is a traitor.
Thomas Jefferson: Eric Snowden is a patriot.
John Boehner: Eric Snowden is a traitor.
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And the rule of law imposes he is tried for treason.
Countries that harbour this traitor must be considered for what they are: terrorist countries looking for undermining the US.
Signed: an American.
So - are you offering him political asylum, or what?!
AnAnonymous offers nothing save for whining and insanitation.
The US lost it's credibility to the rest of the world years ago, this brave man just confirmed the fact that the US eleeches are out and out nasty pschyopathic domineering bad guys
When can we get back to Benghazi? Never, it appears.
We now have the World's Most Hated Man - Obama - as our president.
And where is the world's biggest bully BH Obama? The nasty signs and booing in Senegal and the rest of Africa must have shaken him up quite a bit.Will we have an absent president for the next 3 years?
How will Axelrod twist all this so it appears to all be the fault of the Republicans prior to thw 2014 mid-term elections?
Putin looks like the good guy in this. Classic.
What happen, NSA pull the plug? No updates since yesterday???
WTF
And today's scandal within a scandal is, tuduhh: 'House seeks answers from IRS over the seizure of millions of medical records'.
Ok, check back in an hour or so and I'm sure there will be another scandal brewing. Its a slow news cycle.
Medical write offs may be the issue. During major medical illnesses they add up. And are rather generous, everything you pay for medical care is a deduction. So there may be audits. codes and costs may be run and that makes reason for electronic medical records. you will become an ICD9 code.
I think there is going to be a dredge for tax dollars but through fines, addiltional charges, late charges and they will get your proerty if you owe medical bills now. Cost of medical care out of pocket may be handled like IRS bill bankruptcy. Unless there is now no out of pocket cost. seems i haven't read the healthcare bill to know for sure.
If Snowden is not already under the protection of some foreign government (such as China), it will just be a matter of time before U.S. government agents get him.
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We, Americans, are the last roadblock on the path of communism. A platoon of US citizens will do a better work at protecting a real opponent to the US government than the chinese government. A communist government.
Snowden is a traitor. This is how I figured it out. Seeking protection from the US by moving to communist China? An American, a real one, would have known better.
A posse of American vigilitantes will have given him all the needed protection. Or even Chuck Norris all by himself.
In America, we own guns to protect from the tyranny of the government. It is our job. It is our DNA.
God bless, this traitor gave himself away by moving to communist china to seek protection from the US government.
Signed: an American.
Haven't you noticed that he went to Ping Pong, erm, King Kong ... excuse me: King Hong ... wait, I mean Hong Pong, er ... King Pong ... em .... never mind ...
The article says "Most Americans never even try to make a difference because they do not believe that it will benefit them personally."
I think that Most Americans never even try to make a difference because they do not believe that they can make a difference.
Media theorist Marshall Macluhan wrote the following way back in 1967, long before Al Gore even dreamed of the intertubes. There is nothing, son, under the gnu:
How much do you make? Have you
ever contemplated suicide? Are you
now or have you ever been... ? Are you
aware of the fact...? I have here before
me.... Electrical information devices
for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb
surveillance are causing a very
serious dilemma between our claim to
privacy and the community's need to
know. The older, traditional ideas of
private, isolated thoughts and actions—
the patterns of mechanistic technologies—
are very seriously threatened by
new methods of instantaneous electric
information retrieval, by the electrically
computerized dossier bank—that one
big gossip column that is unforgiving,
unforgetful and from which there is no
redemption, no erasure of early "mistakes."
We have already reached a
point where remedial control, born out
of knowledge of media and their total
effects on all of us, must be exerted.
How shall the new environment be programmed
now that we have become so
involved with each other, now that all
of us have become the unwitting work
force for social change? What's that
buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing?
FAIL
Can the person who said this not see the obvious?
[Oh yes - We all love you for your freedoms America - signed The ROTW]
Great Michael, and how about them great USA made refrigirator, that is really hard to give up.