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The NSA's Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”—William Binney, NSA whistleblower
We now have a fourth branch of government.
As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and yet it possesses superpowers, above and beyond those of any other government agency save the military. It is all-knowing, all-seeing and all-powerful. It operates beyond the reach of the president, Congress and the courts, and it marches in lockstep with the corporate elite who really call the shots in Washington, DC.
You might know this branch of government as Surveillance, but I prefer “technotyranny,” a term coined by investigative journalist James Bamford to refer to an age of technological tyranny made possible by government secrets, government lies, government spies and their corporate ties.
Beware of what you say, what you read, what you write, where you go, and with whom you communicate, because it will all be recorded, stored and used against you eventually, at a time and place of the government’s choosing. Privacy, as we have known it, is dead.
The police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state.
Having already transformed local police into extensions of the military, the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the FBI are preparing to turn the nation’s soldier cops into techno-warriors, complete with iris scanners, body scanners, thermal imaging Doppler radar devices, facial recognition programs, license plate readers, cell phone Stingray devices and so much more.
This is about to be the new face of policing in America.
The National Security Agency (NSA) has been a perfect red herring, distracting us from the government’s broader, technology-driven campaign to render us helpless in the face of its prying eyes. In fact, long before the NSA became the agency we loved to hate, the Justice Department, the FBI, and the Drug Enforcement Administration were carrying out their own secret mass surveillance on an unsuspecting populace.
Just about every branch of the government—from the Postal Service to the Treasury Department and every agency in between—now has its own surveillance sector, authorized to spy on the American people. Then there are the fusion and counterterrorism centers that gather all of the data from the smaller government spies—the police, public health officials, transportation, etc.—and make it accessible for all those in power. And of course that doesn’t even begin to touch on the complicity of the corporate sector, which buys and sells us from cradle to grave, until we have no more data left to mine.
The raging debate over the fate of the NSA’s blatantly unconstitutional, illegal and ongoing domestic surveillance programs is just so much noise, what Shakespeare referred to as “sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
It means nothing: the legislation, the revelations, the task forces, and the filibusters.
The government is not giving up, nor is it giving in. It has stopped listening to us. It has long since ceased to take orders from “we the people.”
If you haven’t figured it out yet, none of it—the military drills, the surveillance, the militarized police, the strip searches, the random pat downs, the stop-and-frisks, even the police-worn body cameras—is about fighting terrorism. It’s about controlling the populace.
Despite the fact that its data snooping has been shown to be ineffective at detecting, let alone stopping, any actual terror attacks, the NSA continues to operate largely in secret, carrying out warrantless mass surveillance on hundreds of millions of Americans’ phone calls, emails, text messages and the like, beyond the scrutiny of most of Congress and the taxpayers who are forced to fund its multi-billion dollar secret black ops budget.
Legislation such as the USA Patriot Act serves only to legitimize the actions of a secret agency run by a shadow government. Even the proposed and ultimately defeated USA Freedom Act, which purported to restrict the reach of the NSA’s phone surveillance program—at least on paper—by requiring the agency to secure a warrant before surveillance could be carried out on American citizens and prohibiting the agency from storing any data collected on Americans, amounted to little more than a paper tiger: threatening in appearance, but lacking any real bite.
The question of how to deal with the NSA—an agency that operates outside of the system of checks and balances established by the Constitution—is a divisive issue that polarizes even those who have opposed the NSA’s warrantless surveillance from the get-go, forcing all of us—cynics, idealists, politicians and realists alike—to grapple with a deeply unsatisfactory and dubious political “solution” to a problem that operates beyond the reach of voters and politicians: how do you trust a government that lies, cheats, steals, sidesteps the law, and then absolves itself of wrongdoing to actually obey the law?
Since its official start in 1952, when President Harry S. Truman issued a secret executive order establishing the NSA as the hub of the government’s foreign intelligence activities, the agency—nicknamed “No Such Agency”—has operated covertly, unaccountable to Congress all the while using taxpayer dollars to fund its secret operations. It was only when the agency ballooned to 90,000 employees in 1969, making it the largest intelligence agency in the world with a significant footprint outside Washington, DC, that it became more difficult to deny its existence.
In the aftermath of Watergate in 1975, the Senate held meetings under the Church Committee in order to determine exactly what sorts of illicit activities the American intelligence apparatus was engaged in under the direction of President Nixon, and how future violations of the law could be stopped. It was the first time the NSA was exposed to public scrutiny since its creation.
The investigation revealed a sophisticated operation whose surveillance programs paid little heed to such things as the Constitution. For instance, under Project SHAMROCK, the NSA spied on telegrams to and from the U.S., as well as the correspondence of American citizens. Moreover, as the Saturday Evening Post reports, “Under Project MINARET, the NSA monitored the communications of civil rights leaders and opponents of the Vietnam War, including targets such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohammed Ali, Jane Fonda, and two active U.S. Senators. The NSA had launched this program in 1967 to monitor suspected terrorists and drug traffickers, but successive presidents used it to track all manner of political dissidents.”
Senator Frank Church (D-Ida.), who served as the chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence that investigated the NSA, understood only too well the dangers inherent in allowing the government to overstep its authority in the name of national security. Church recognized that such surveillance powers “at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.”
Noting that the NSA could enable a dictator “to impose total tyranny” upon an utterly defenseless American public, Church declared that he did not “want to see this country ever go across the bridge” of constitutional protection, congressional oversight and popular demand for privacy. He avowed that “we,” implicating both Congress and its constituency in this duty, “must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”
The result was the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and the creation of the FISA Court, which was supposed to oversee and correct how intelligence information is collected and collated. The law requires that the NSA get clearance from the FISA Court, a secret surveillance court, before it can carry out surveillance on American citizens. Fast forward to the present day, and the so-called solution to the problem of government entities engaging in unjustified and illegal surveillance—the FISA Court—has unwittingly become the enabler of such activities, rubberstamping almost every warrant request submitted to it.
The 9/11 attacks served as a watershed moment in our nation’s history, ushering in an era in which immoral and/or illegal government activities such as surveillance, torture, strip searches, SWAT team raids are sanctioned as part of the quest to keep us “safe.”
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush secretly authorized the NSA to conduct warrantless surveillance on Americans’ phone calls and emails. That wireless wiretap program was reportedly ended in 2007 after the New York Times reported on it, to mass indignation.
Nothing changed under Barack Obama. In fact, the violations worsened, with the NSA authorized to secretly collect internet and telephone data on millions of Americans, as well as on foreign governments.
It was only after whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 that the American people fully understood the extent to which they had been betrayed once again.
What this brief history of the NSA makes clear is that you cannot reform the NSA.
As long as the government is allowed to make a mockery of the law—be it the Constitution, the FISA Act or any other law intended to limit its reach and curtail its activities—and is permitted to operate behind closed doors, relaying on secret courts, secret budgets and secret interpretations of the laws of the land, there will be no reform.
Presidents, politicians, and court rulings have come and gone over the course of the NSA’s 60-year history, but none of them have done much to put an end to the NSA’s “technotyranny.”
The beast has outgrown its chains. It will not be restrained.
The growing tension seen and felt throughout the country is a tension between those who wield power on behalf of the government—the president, Congress, the courts, the military, the militarized police, the technocrats, the faceless unelected bureaucrats who blindly obey and carry out government directives, no matter how immoral or unjust, and the corporations—and those among the populace who are finally waking up to the mounting injustices, seething corruption and endless tyrannies that are transforming our country into a technocrized police state.
At every turn, we have been handicapped in our quest for transparency, accountability and a representative democracy by an establishment culture of secrecy: secret agencies, secret experiments, secret military bases, secret surveillance, secret budgets, and secret court rulings, all of which exist beyond our reach, operate outside our knowledge, and do not answer to “we the people.”
What we have failed to truly comprehend is that the NSA is merely one small part of a shadowy permanent government comprised of unelected bureaucrats who march in lockstep with profit-driven corporations that actually runs Washington, DC, and works to keep us under surveillance and, thus, under control. For example, Google openly works with the NSA, Amazon has built a massive $600 million intelligence database for the CIA, and the telecommunications industry is making a fat profit by spying on us for the government.
In other words, Corporate America is making a hefty profit by aiding and abetting the government in its domestic surveillance efforts. Conveniently, as the Intercept recently revealed, many of the NSA’s loudest defenders have financial ties to NSA contractors.
Thus, if this secret regime not only exists but thrives, it is because we have allowed it through our ignorance, apathy and naïve trust in politicians who take their orders from Corporate America rather than the Constitution.
If this shadow government persists, it is because we have yet to get outraged enough to push back against its power grabs and put an end to its high-handed tactics.
And if this unelected bureaucracy succeeds in trampling underfoot our last vestiges of privacy and freedom, it will be because we let ourselves be fooled into believing that politics matters, that voting makes a difference, that politicians actually represent the citizenry, that the courts care about justice, and that everything that is being done is in our best interests.
Indeed, as political scientist Michael J. Glennon warns, you can vote all you want, but the people you elect aren’t actually the ones calling the shots. “The American people are deluded … that the institutions that provide the public face actually set American national security policy,” stated Glennon. “They believe that when they vote for a president or member of Congress or succeed in bringing a case before the courts, that policy is going to change. But … policy by and large in the national security realm is made by the concealed institutions.”
In other words, it doesn’t matter who occupies the White House: the secret government with its secret agencies, secret budgets and secret programs won’t change. It will simply continue to operate in secret until some whistleblower comes along to momentarily pull back the curtain and we dutifully—and fleetingly—play the part of the outraged public, demanding accountability and rattling our cages, all the while bringing about little real reform.
Thus, the lesson of the NSA and its vast network of domestic spy partners is simply this: once you allow the government to start breaking the law, no matter how seemingly justifiable the reason, you relinquish the contract between you and the government which establishes that the government works for and obeys you, the citizen—the employer—the master.
Once the government starts operating outside the law, answerable to no one but itself, there’s no way to rein it back in, short of revolution. And by revolution, I mean doing away with the entire structure, because the corruption and lawlessness have become that pervasive.
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The NSA can suck my giant man-bone. Work to do, boys.
Until people wake up from their TV induced death coma, nothing will change.
Seriously, would anyone here on ZH want a revolution funded by the fed and fueled by the communist/fascist ideals pushed by today's media?
It is firstly a battle for the minds.
If NSA worked, they would have caught so many home grown terrorists its not funny, including Boston Bombers and Garland shooters. But NSA isnt really for permeating domestic surveillance, its for blackmail and international industrial espionage. Keep those congress critters and activist judges in line so the funding flows while enriching the masters by knowing intel on business deals. Prove me wrong.
And if you're naive enough to believe the NSA (and their boss, Obozo) actually stopped their illegal surveillance of US citizens in order to obey the recent court orders forbidding such activity...
I've got some beautiful ocean beachfront property to sell you in the middle of downtown Omaha.
There are two MAJOR flaws with this article... NSA should be changed to M-16....
The second thing is, the spying has been proven to be a global epedemic....
Nevertheless, forced digital life is coming, and that's the truth...
http://galeinnes.blogspot.com/2015/05/digital-life.html
M-16 or MI6?
We need moar troops on the ground. If you see something say something. Spi on your neighbors, report evil doers.
Israil can help America with all of their advancements, it's our only solution or we all will perish.
If you see something say something... Edward Snowden did;) brave guy.
Actually once one understands the Panopticon idea, the all seeing eye....none of this is a surprise. Machines also do not like outliers.
And for any of the un-initiated, the farcebooks and whatsapps of the world are "considered" worth what they are purely for the data they generate. Ad revenue etc. are mere icing on the cake. I'm sure that data sharing revenue is buried under all kinds of nice sounding headers.
Once camera phones became a part of our ecosystem...game over.
Huxley was right. Orwell was correct. Legalizing heavily altered marijuana slowly but surely and cameras everywhere.
Given the fact that they were both right tells us the extent of our gone-ness...
Hear the words of this preacher... ;-)
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/another-pearl/
Heavily altered? How so? You mean increased potency? People have been working on that for hundreds of years. Pot opens thinking. There is a reason the govt is afraid of it.
Well, just speaking from personal experience while there. I knew a bunch of legal medical M growers. Their stuff was insane, psychadellic beyond imagination.
Just looking at the buds you knew that this was un-natural, the amount of resin to begin with.
I had a near psychotic breakdown on the stuff. That way.
So, while I'm all for natural cross-breeding and natural ways of crop enhancement, I feel they've done something deeper (GMO, don't know).
TV isn't the problem. Just keep using google mail, google+, facebook and oh yeah, your cell phone and all will be fine.
TV is the problem.
More specifically the six CEO owners of all the media consumed in America.
The zio tee vee could have shut down the brave new world on sept 12 2001 if they told the truth, but instead they cheerlead their tribe of New Bolshevik neocon PNAC revolutionaries and the zio coup takeover of America.
Because their function is to program the matrix tards like the donkeys they are supposed to be.
Is there? Is there work to do? What work? How does this look/act/feel?
Perhaps the idea that there is nothing that can be done, at least directly, to "combat" The State is even more frightening?
I don't know about your early childhood, but my dad was kind of a control freak. Since those early, formative years, I've pretty well deprogrammed myself from that world of being controlled and trying to control others. It's just a program, anyway, based on fear, and it's really no fun "reacting" rather than responding to others. So, with that being said, I personally don't care what NSA's intentions are, I won't participate. And if enough humans don't participate, there's not really a fucking thing they can do about it, regardless of the amount of ammo they are stockpiling.
You are participating whether you want to or not, NSA don't need your consent.
Actually they DO require your consent. You dont HAVE to use email or a cell phone. Thats 90% of bulk surveillance these days.
Nobody can crack RSA-2048 yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers#RSA-2048
If you could crack it, would you tell anyone?
Excellent insight, they can't win if we don't play.
Applies to the economy as well.
"And I gladly stand up next to you
And defend her still today
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land
God bless the NSA!" - new version
Now that's a tune for Generation Apple.
Kobe Beef remix:
"And I'm proud to be an American,
Cuz I don't know I'm not free.
And I forgot all the men who died
So they could take my rights from me,
And I'll meekly SIT DOWN, next to you,
And believe in my TV.
Cuz there ain't no doubt that I love the lies of my USSA!"
I'm forwarding this thread to Lee Greenwood. He'll be shocked.
One Nation under a Groove makes the NSA the Groovy Gang.
Scandalous way to earn a crust , spying on your own. Still you must have very low self esteem to engage with spooks.
New words are not necessary.
who needs a government
when you can have a Gover-net
I choose this post as only as it’s the latest, buy anymore, pick any at ZH. War. Pestilence. Economic ruin. Civilization exhaustion. Potpourri. Mystery Door No. 3. Two years from now? Five? Maybe Seven?
Those who will have had read history before the coming Great Calamity will recognize that it is not the calamity we will experience, but rather history. I look at my children and I weep, yet look to love for all guidance; to whatever end.
Time to find some small insignificant country with NO valuable resources - a place that the US Empire doesn't care about - to go move to........ just have to make sure it's not some island due to be submerged or a place destined to turn into a desert......
Not easy to find ....
I vividly remember the story of a man who fearing WWII fled to an isolated group of islands in the South Atlantic in the 1980's.... a place called the Falkland Islands..... you never know
'Done' on my To Do list.
Got an apt there already.
Can't keep infrastructure from running but got enough time to fuck around sitting on their asses reading other people's mail. Anyone see the problem yet? Lazy shits.
the real concern should be that the NSA is giving this data to israel
1 israeli analyst = 5 NSA analysts
they're that good..this is what worries me..not the bumbling idiots in DC or the MIC
When they send it to the phone centers in India is when things get really interesting.
FWIW All this week five seperate times i encountered strangers in a store or parking lot and asked a simple question like how do you like that car, or are those Kardashingtons mess up or what? Five times I got lost looks and answers that were not even close to the subject matter. What is going on? Ive read about the low freq waves being sent through the cable tv networks that hypnotise people. I think this is really going on. The people who are really hypnotized. I turned TV off a decade ago. Is that why I and those here are so much more aware of what is going on?
Maybe you should put more clothes on than just an overcoat that you flash open?.
Seriously, some smuck comes up to me in a parking lot and asks me about Kard@ssians is not exactly the litmus test of the actions of a normal human.
Hate to say it, but it's true.
That's because they don't have the 'cultural' and middle-class handicaps that our guys do.
ALL the raw data goes to Israel to file away for use when needed. Good thing they have promised not to use anything they see on our legislators. Control in the 21st Century.
Historians of the great social upheavals in the 19th century say they were led by people "who could remember what life was like before the imposition of tyrannical rules and regimes". Eventually we will lose that, this time around. It's up to us to keep reminding people.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. -John Maynard Keynes.
Because without taxes we would not have to fight wars on the on the other side of the world, and they would never have had enough money to put a G.E. reactor on the other side of the world. Point being, the low I.Q. people at the NSA are the least of our worries. I hope they enjoy Utah in the summer.
This is My World, MY WORLD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fchrWpPArEo (0:07)
Why, Mr. Anderson? Why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YC7TMi0l68 (1:11)
The Matrix Revolutions - Neo vs Smith FULL HD 1/4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlS4jTLIvt4 (3:19)
The Matrix Revolutions - Neo vs Smith FULL HD 2/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UDLY7foTe4 (2:53)
Ex-Stasi Spy Chief Markus Wolf Hired By Homeland Security!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/061204wolfhired.htm
General Yevgeni Primakov, has been hired as a consultant by the US Department of Homeland Security!
http://www.realnews247.com/KGB%20General%20Yevgeni%20Primakov%20hired%20...
"And the last words to the wife was, yo, that's life"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N_kDIVxNIQ
do you guys like my browsers porn history? ive got sense, right?
The NSA be damned,
but what a shame to see all the wasted energy...
all the misdirected thinking and words...
if all you self-professed Concerned do not direct your attention at getting a critical mass of so-called patriots into the body that is called Congress, you will have succeeded in nothing more than pissing in the wind...
I don't do politics, but I assure you that Neglect of a corrupt and defunct Congress is the final nail... and you are partaking.
Assume the government knows everything, but don't be surprised when they Don't
americunts will do anything for a buck. lie cheat steal spy kill maim torture whatever. If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. [/Winston Zeddemore, Ghostbusters]
Buzzsaw, we have been around for ages. It's not the American people causing this. Please direct your anger to the house, senate, and congress. Don't forget are silly Kenyan negro who boasts about Government transparency. That's why we cannot read the TPP documents.
They are frauds.
the gubbermint is just a bunch of lackeys for the bankers, billionaires, and ceos. without millions of toadies, sychophants, and goons the maggots would have no power whatsoever.
bluuuuuuue beeeellllllll
think there was a pile of job cuts there too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=domUF7l-02w
WTF
New jobs?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tnOkJS-_Um8
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v9DNwvTj71Y
National Sissy Administration will be defunded along with Israeli foreign aid policy.
Israel's Upcoming Nuke War!http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t0jZSUvRNPc
Yep revolution. It always starts with bankers that have too much money and haven't been forced to learn from life. Once a generation or two forget world wars there go their descendents back to mass murder and chaos.They should practice meditation instead of trying to control people. What are they stupid. Arrest them. Somebody call the police.
Can we please get some incoherent Zeroes to chime in that the Jews actually did this rather than Hamas? Maybe something conspiratorial or Truman Show-esque about Amnesty International, or at least an ad hominem attack on Fox News???
C'mon, Zeroes!
Amnesty International Accuses Hamas of Torturing, Killing Palestinians in New Report on Gaza Conflict Published May 27, 2015Amnesty International accused Hamas militants Wednesday of abducting, torturing, and carrying out summary executions of Palestinians during last year's conflict in the Gaza Strip.
The report, the last of four released by the human rights group detailing events during the fighting, said that at least 23 Palestinians were shot and killed by Hamas, which rules Gaza, while dozens more were arrested and tortured. Amnesty said those targeted were either political rivals of Hamas, including members of the Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, or people the militant group had accused of cooperating with Israel.
The report detailed one particularly brutal spate of violence, which took place this past Aug. 22.
"In one of the most shocking incidents, six men were publicly executed by Hamas forces outside al-Omari mosque ... in front of hundreds of spectators, including children," the report said. Hamas had announced the men were suspected "collaborators" who had been sentenced to death in "revolutionary courts," the rights group added.
"The hooded men were dragged along the floor to kneel by a wall facing the crowd, then each man was shot in the head individually before being sprayed with bullets fired from an AK-47," the report said of the August incident.
In one section of the report, testimony from the brother of Atta Najjar, an ex-Palestinian Authority policeman imprisoned since 2009 and killed by Hamas last August, described the violence done to him in captivity.
"His arms and legs were broken ... his body was as if you’d put it in a bag and smashed it ... His body was riddled with about 30 bullets," the brother was quoted as saying. "He had slaughter marks around his neck, marks of knives ... And from behind the head - there was no brain. Empty ... It was difficult for us to carry him ... He was heavy, like when you put meat in a bag; no bones. His bones were smashed. They broke him in the prison."
The report also revealed that Hamas used abandoned areas of a hospital in Gaza City to detain, question, and torture captives, even as other parts of the facility "continued to function as a medical centre [sic]".
Hamas used the war to "ruthlessly settle scores, carrying out a series of unlawful killings and other grave abuses," Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa director, charged. "These spine-chilling actions, some of which amount to war crimes, were designed to exact revenge and spread fear across the Gaza Strip."
"Hamas forces have displayed a disregard for the most fundamental rules of international humanitarian law," Luther added. "Torture and cruel treatment of detainees in an armed conflict is a war crime. Extrajudicial executions are also war crimes."
The report said 16 of the people killed by Hamas were already being held by the militant group when the conflict erupted and many of them were waiting to hear the verdict of their Hamas-organized trials. "Many had been sentenced after trials before courts whose proceedings are grossly unfair. A number had said they had been tortured in order to extract 'confessions,'" the report said.
Hamas violently seized Gaza from forces loyal to Abbas in 2007, leaving Palestinians bitterly divided with Hamas ruling Gaza and Abbas governing parts of the West Bank. Since then, Hamas has launched thousands of rockets at Israel and fought three wars with the Jewish state. According to official U.N. figures, over 2,200 Palestinians were killed during the 50-day war last summer. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed.
In March, Amnesty International accused Hamas of war crimes for launching unguided rockets and mortars from civilian areas in Gaza toward civilian areas in Israel, saying that was a breach of international law. In particular, the report cited an incident in which a missile launched by Hamas misfired and killed 13 Palestinians, 11 of them children, when it exploded next to a market in a refugee camp.
The first two reports mainly focused on the activities of the IDF and included strong criticisms of the Israeli military and accusations of "callous indifference" and "war crimes", which were again mentioned by Luther. "The fact that Palestinian armed groups appear to have carried out war crimes by firing indiscriminate rockets and mortars does not absolve the Israeli forces from their obligations under international humanitarian law,” he said.
Luther added, “The devastating impact of Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians during the conflict is undeniable, but violations by one side in a conflict can never justify violations by their opponents.”
In reaction to the latest Amnesty International report, Salah Bardawil, a Hamas official in Gaza, told the Associated Press the incidents mentioned in the report took place 'outside the framework of the law' and Hamas was investigating them.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/27/amnesty-international-accuses-ha...
Welcome fouth Stooge, 11 week member. I guessed a three week joiner and I was close.
Great Firewall of China... that is all
traitors of liberty
VPN FTW, bitchez!
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Superlarge multi-national corporations are like dinosaurs in the weeks before the big asteroid hit. The debt fuel is piled high'n'dry, and the match is lit. I smell paradigm shift away from Big .gov driven by big .biz. One side benefit will be less broad-spectrum surveillance.
All this data collection, in the hands of our totally fucked up .gov is probably not that harmful. They will have "identified" turrists for further watching, but we all know who those people are (white, male, R-voters). I'm all for refusing to comply and/or participate. Let's all spoof the system, block traffic, piss in .gov's Cheerios, and generally give 'em hell.
The people don't need to resort to spying to see the DC US' crimes and tyranny.
"See tyranny. Say tyranny."
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
History informs that only criminal and tyrannical governments feel compelled to spy on the people.
That headline is one letter away from a real dystopian nightmare.
Pffffffff with all the data collection, these asswipes haven't been able to rein in nor prevent any large scale attacks. So its all there for either blackmail, or they are incompetent as fuck.
They dont have to rein them in because they meaning the .Gov are the people doing them.
The CIA, and the NSA, as well as the entirety of the Western World Military Industrial Complex was reined in March 10th 2008 @ 11:00am Bear Stearns New York City time. In brief, there is a way to rein in the MIC, but the MIC is way too stooooooooooooopid to figure it out.
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Only when a growing number of people begin to be truly impinged upon by these agencies, dying, will the population finally collesce and do something about it.
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