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Life In The Electronic Concentration Camp: The Surveillance State Is Alive & Well
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like.” ? William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice
Bottle up the champagne, pack away the noisemakers, and toss out the party hats.
There is no cause for celebration.
We have secured no major victories against tyranny.
We have achieved no great feat in pushing back against government overreach.
For all intents and purposes, the National Security Agency has supposedly ceased its bulk collection of metadata from Americans’ phone calls, but read the fine print: nothing is going to change.
The USA Freedom Act, which claimed to put an end to the National Security Agency’s controversial collection of metadata from Americans’ phone calls, was just a placebo pill intended to make us feel better and let the politicians take credit for reforming mass surveillance.
In other words, it was a sham, a sleight-of-hand political gag pulled on a gullible public desperate to believe that we still live in a constitutional republic rather than a down-and-out, out-of-control, corporate-controlled, economically impoverished, corrupt, warring, militarized banana republic.
You cannot restrain the NSA. The beast has outgrown its chains.
You cannot reform the NSA. A government that lies, cheats, steals, sidesteps the law, and then absolves itself of wrongdoing does not voluntarily alter its behavior.
You cannot put an end to the NSA’s “technotyranny.” Presidents, politicians, and court rulings have come and gone over the course of the NSA’s 60-year history, but none of them have managed to shut down the government’s secret surveillance of Americans’ phone calls, emails, text messages, transactions, communications and activities.
Indeed, the government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep niggling, inconvenient laws aimed at ensuring accountability, bringing about government transparency and protecting citizen privacy.
It has mastered the art of stealth maneuvers and end-runs around the Constitution.
It knows all too well how to hide its nefarious, covert, clandestine activities behind the classified language of national security and terrorism. And when that doesn’t suffice, it obfuscates, complicates, stymies or just plain bamboozles the public into remaining in the dark.
Case in point: the so-called end of the NSA’s metadata collection of Americans’ phone calls.
This, of course, is no end at all.
On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will still be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears.
More than a year before politicians attempted to patch up our mortally wounded privacy rights with the legislative bandaid fix that is the USA Freedom Act, researchers at Harvard and Boston University documented secret loopholes that allow the government to bypass Fourth Amendment protections to conduct massive domestic surveillance on U.S. citizens.
It’s extraordinary rendition all over again, only this time it’s surveillance instead of torture being outsourced.
In much the same way that the government moved its torture programs overseas in order to bypass legal prohibitions against doing so on American soil, it is doing the same thing for its surveillance programs. By shifting its data storage, collection and surveillance activities outside of the country, the government is able to bypass constitutional protections against unwarranted searches of Americans’ emails, documents, social networking data, and other cloud-stored data.
Heck, the government doesn’t even need to move all of its programs overseas. It just has to push the data over the border in order to “[circumvent] constitutional and statutory safeguards seeking to protect the privacy of Americans.”
Credit for this particular brainchild goes to the Obama administration, which issued Executive Order 12333 authorizing the collection of Americans’ data from surveillance conducted on foreign soil.
Using this rationale, the government was able to justify hacking into and collecting an estimated 180 million user records from Google and Yahoo data centers every month because the data travels over international fiber-optic cables. The NSA program, dubbed MUSCULAR, is carried out in concert with British intelligence.
No wonder the NSA appeared so unfazed about being forced to shut down its much-publicized metadata program. It had already figured out a way to accomplish the same results (illegally spying on Americans’ communications) without being shackled by the legislative or judicial branches of the government.
Mind you, this metadata collection now being carried out overseas is just a small piece of the surveillance pie. The government and its corporate partners have a veritable arsenal of surveillance programs that will continue 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.
The surveillance state is alive and well and kicking privacy to shreds in America.
Whether you’re walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure that some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, will still be listening in and tracking your behavior. This doesn’t even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere.
We are now in a state of transition with the police state shifting into high-gear under the auspices of 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 police officers 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.
Add in the fusion centers, city-wide surveillance networks, data clouds conveniently hosted overseas by Amazon and Microsoft, drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras, and biometric databases, and you’ve got the makings of a world in which “privacy” is reserved exclusively for government agencies.
Thus, telephone surveillance by the NSA is the least of our worries.
Even with restrictions on its ability to collect mass quantities of telephone metadata, the government and its various spy agencies, from the NSA to the FBI, can still employ an endless number of methods for carrying out warrantless surveillance on Americans, all of which are far more invasive than the bulk collection program.
As I point out in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, 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. Indeed, Facebook, Amazon and Google are among the government’s closest competitors when it comes to carrying out surveillance on Americans, monitoring the content of your emails, tracking your purchases and exploiting your social media posts.
“Few consumers understand what data are being shared, with whom, or how the information is being used,” reports the Los Angeles Times. “Most Americans emit a stream of personal digital exhaust — what they search for, what they buy, who they communicate with, where they are — that is captured and exploited in a largely unregulated fashion.”
It’s not just what we say, where we go and what we buy that is being tracked.
We’re being surveilled right down to our genes, thanks to a potent combination of hardware, software and data collection that scans our biometrics—our faces, irises, voices, genetics, even our gait—runs them through computer programs that can break the data down into unique “identifiers,” and then offers them up to the government and its corporate allies for their respective uses.
All of those internet-connected gadgets we just have to have (Forbes refers to them as “(data) pipelines to our intimate bodily processes”)—the smart watches that can monitor our blood pressure and the smart phones that let us pay for purchases with our fingerprints and iris scans—are setting us up for a brave new world where there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
For instance, imagine what the NSA could do (and is likely already doing) with voiceprint technology, which has been likened to a fingerprint. Described as “the next frontline in the battle against overweening public surveillance,” the collection of voiceprints is a booming industry for governments and businesses alike. As The Guardian reports, “voice biometrics could be used to pinpoint the location of individuals. There is already discussion about placing voice sensors in public spaces, and [Lee Tien, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation] said that multiple sensors could be triangulated to identify individuals and specify their location within very small areas.”
Suddenly the NSA’s telephone metadata program seems like child’s play compared to what’s coming down the pike.
That, of course, is the point.
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 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.
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.”
Now there are still those who insist that they have nothing to hide from the surveillance state and nothing to fear from the police state because they have done nothing wrong.
To those sanctimonious few, secure in their delusions, let this be a warning: the danger posed by the American police state applies equally to all of us—lawbreaker and law abider alike, black and white, rich and poor, liberal and conservative, blue collar and white collar, and any other distinction you’d care to trot out.
In an age of too many laws, too many prisons, too many government spies, and too many corporations eager to make a fast buck at the expense of the American taxpayer, there is no safe place and no watertight alibi. We are all guilty of some transgression or other, and eventually, we will all be made to suffer the same consequences in the electronic concentration camp that surrounds us.
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Putin, buddy. You know those ELF / EMP toys you have? How about you send one of those devices our way please.
Somewhere about 5 miles above this place would be just about right...all those little electronic data storage devices would go bzzzzzzt and all the smoke would come out!
NSA Utah Data Center
DaddyO
Exactly! What I had in mind.
Faraday cages are cheap.
Microwave oven or a cardboard boxes & aluminum foil.
Fuck your constitutional republic! All hail the technocratic cyber-utopia run by dickheads like we!
I see someone is demanding $5,000,000 to participate in the next debate but says that money will then go to a veterans charity :
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141275343
Do any tax savy people know if he can then claim that $5 million as a deduction on his income tax, whereby he could then actually see a net positive of maybe a million or more out of it since some of his taxes on his real income would then be lessened?
If you have a Smart Phone, Facebook, Instagram, ect........ You are an enabler to the beast. If you are willing to trade any Freedoms for any Illusion of Security, you are an enabler of the Beast. If you think Smart TV's and any other Smart Appliance are kick ass cool, you are an enabler of the Beast. If you think the Government has your best interest at heart, you are an enabler of the Beast. You have the power to render the Beast impotent should you decide to use it. Simply unplug, unsubscribe from most of your enabling activities.
I love my Flip Phone.
Yours is probably 2G like mine. ( just found out this week what "G" means :-P ) My phone has been working less and less and I thought it was my old phone ... but friends have confirmed I'm not getting my texts, phone calls or voice mails ... Apparently my phone service uses AT&T equipment, which is phasing out 2G service. There are big black holes all over the place my phone no longer works at all.
They are forcing us to enable the beast as you say.
Go over to T-mobile, they still operate their 2g network.
@ joeyman9 THANK YOU for the 411 on that!!
Unfortunately there isn't T-mobile coverage where I live ... which doesn't matter because they are "upgrading" their entire 2G network. :-(
Before cell phones were available, and e-mail was just getting started, I lived an entire year without a telephone, it was rather pleasant. Looks like pretty soon I'll be living without a phone permanently; for institutions that require a phone number I'll give them my landlord's number.
funny, cant upvote you, so here i go analog:
+1
Thanks unicorn :-)
Found your post with this - cool, will read it this weekend.
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
your autism is showing.
Don't forget... must be grounded, and what's inside must be insulated from the conductive shell.
Sadly that's only one of many. There's another one for sure in Texas, and from what I've gathered, they basically put shadow facilities within a few miles of eacy major communication nexus or mega-data center.
The deep state that this is a part of is a hydra. I don't think killing one arm will do much. I'm not sure what the physical manifestation of a metaphorical systemic poison is, but that's what will be needed to end it. Either the electrical grid, communication grid, or the wizards behind the curtain have to go away before the surveilance ends.
I do wonder how bad the freakout would be if everyone just turned off their damn phones for a week. Given that we're starting to see identity documents actually migrating to smartphone apps, I wonder how long it will be before carrying a spyphone is legally mandated. People already look at guys like me that only use dumbphones like we don't have SSNs...
Anyone who doesn't think the show 'Person of Interest' is a pretty accurate preview of what's coming down the pike is not paying attention.
Been considering abandoning the smart (aka snitch) phone for something much dumber.
Shut my verizon account down 3 years ago. No cell.
Some members of the Deep State are extremely paranoid, others (colluding with corporations) are extremely greedy but both groups fit into the definition of a psychosis.
Just always look at it like the bug it really is and you can turn it to your advantage. Don't transact business (legal or not) on it. Don't store data on it that you don't want corporations or the state to be aware of and always remember they are trying to track you through it, you can give them whatever you desire them to have. Now that's a completely different proposition isn't it?
I say the above because in a time of universal deception, there may also come a time that you WANT THEM to think you're bouncing off a tower in Poughkeepsie NY when you're actually in Miami or that you're one of their loyal subjects when you very well may not be and a gallon of milk can mean one thing to them and something completely different to you.
I'm jus sayin ;-)
My thoughts exactly. Subversion and misdirection can be equally or more valuable than anonymity.
The opposite end of the misdirection spectrum would be to constantly post/transmit "suspicous" material for the purpose of creating false positives and wasting their time at chasing ghosts. If a relatively small number of people did that, then they would have so many red herrings that they could never get anything "productive" done, even with their army of spooks.
Exactly so.
I've got the milk. See you in a bit.
Sent from my droid ;-)
Fuck you Daddy0
Daddy0
Muh Bitcoin wallet won't open
Putin s fault
"By shifting its data storage, collection and surveillance activities outside of the country,..." You mean places like Tel Aviv?
Technotyranny is another word for an evolved police state. A police state is a curse on the people. That's why they can get away with telling us lies such as 'Turkey shot down the Russian Jet fighter', when another country did it >> >> https://goo.gl/qazI3V
You have to wonder when you see science articles talking about how they can control the motor skills of monkeys or some such other disturbing achievements if an EMP wont be considered an option to save mankind someday. Science is not always friendly when psychopaths are in charge and they control the funding.
The Psychopaths already have been.
Conspiracy theories are nothing new to history. Plots to "kill Caesar" and overthrow Rome abounded, for instance. however, it is seldom that concrete clues to such plots come to light, and are generally known.
Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, An Introduction Programming Manual was uncovered quite by accident on July 7, 1986 when an employee of Boeing Aircraft Co. purchased a surplus IBM copier for scrap parts at a sale, and discovered inside details of a plan, hatched in the embryonic days of the "Cold War" which called for control of the masses through manipulation of industry, peoples' pastimes, education and political leanings. It called for a quiet revolution, putting brother against brother, and diverting the public's attention from what is really going on.
Then there is the reality that we have no way of knowing the full extent of our technological advancements and what that will mean for us. How can we assume that we will be able to even think freely for much longer at the rate of the advancement of science? How much longer until they can EMP our brains? Seriously...
Maybe Oppenheimer was making a good point when he seemed to allude to the possibiliy that we have nuked ourselves before, if this did not occur it is still easy to see where we cannot seem to responsibly handle our advancement at this point.
Wanna have some fun?
Wanna see 'em shit themselves?
How many ZHr's are there?
If we all unplugged at once, all connected devices, it might be fun to watch...
Ms No, meet Ted Kazinsky. His brother turned him in. I think he is a tribesman.
World Wide Web, meet the World Wide Electronic Gulag. The world has turned into a giant prison without walls, where we are no different than goldfish in a glass tank.
If this is prison, I don't wanna be free!!!
/s
Sorry, the Russian military doctrine does not allow this.
Dear NSA,
Fuck you. Hillary should be shot on sight.
Dear FBI,
You already have my address, you know where I am, we've already had a chat.
Dear Dumbshit Obama,
[redacted, because the FBI actually HAS been on my front porch]
and fuck you, too.
Dear Congress,
I pray that some ISIS asshole that dumbfuck Obama let in blows a suitcase nuke right outside of the capitol (small case warranted) during the SOTU. I won't mourn the loss of any of you.
and people wonder why nobody does business with USA unless at the point of a gun?
This report will not surprise anybody who has read the Office Manual. You didn't know there was an actual office manual setting out how government becomes a self-perpetuating tyranny? It's in all good bookstores, under the title "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Read it and weep.
[Later edit] It's a bit self-indulgent to publish this link to a private blog from 18 months ago, but it is relevant to the "Big Brother" theme, so...
http://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2014/06/dodging-big-brother.html
No. No. No. Marco Rubio says they stopped and now ISIS is going to get us all!
must I repeat myself
the NSA is ISIS
the NSA is ISIS
More like: We are all subject to blackmail.
<< We are all guilty of some...>>
I'm guilty of a lot of things. But there's nothing that could be used as blackmail. I brag about my fuck ups. There is nothing to hide. There is nothing that I worry over other people finding because I've already told them about it in some shitty story or epic or ZH post.
People like me should be politicians.
People like me look at goobermint as a pariah and want nothing to do with it...yet feel it's a civic duty, but who'd the fuck would want to work with people like Fienstien, Waters...hell, name a name...it'd become the worse workpace violence ever seen. So I stay decent and refrain from politics.
I could get used to seeing fists flying in congress
It wouldn't be fists flying....
Like all government promises, even if you give them what they ask for (a compromise on your liberties) you still don't get what they promised in return (safety and security).
If people understood the truth- that the governent is INCAPABLE of protecting us either individually or collectively from these kinds of so-called 'threats' would they still trade away their liberties so willingly? Sadly, I suspect they would.
If people understood the truth- that the governent is INCAPABLE of protecting us either individually or collectively from these kinds of so-called 'threats' would they still trade away their liberties so willingly? Sadly, I suspect they would.
They are all true believers trying desperately trying to escape their little lives by handing over their autonomy and freedom to a larger movement, just as Eric Hoffer described in his classic book:
http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060...
Well backpack pressure cooker bombs at Super Bowl 50 Batman!
I'm going to get on my cell phone and tell the NFL it will be a tail gate party!
Where the Hell is the U.S. Military in this raping of The Constitution!?!? In the Middle East? Asleep!?!?
Well they won't get there pensions that's for sure. Maybe a big war , don't have to pay dead people
Do you think Obama changed out every old-school general in the Pentagram the last few years for no reason? They're all Obama political appointees now. Don't get me wrong, they all still love the smell of napalm in the morning. Just the current crew would much rather smell it being laid down within our own borders.
I think they like the smell of feces on a cock better.
Bath House Barry certainly does so his choices should not be surprising.
Sen. John McCain: Encrypted communication is "unacceptable"
Isn't he dead yet? How long are we going to have to wait?
The National Security Letter spy tool has been uncloaked, and it’s bad.
No warrants needed to get browsing history, online purchase records, and other data.
It took 11 years to finally unveil what the FBI demands in a National Security Letter. How it evolved over the years is shown above.
"That's the opening to an article I just read". Here's the link to arstechnica / M14 forum
http://m14forum.com/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2...
"It took 11 years to finally unveil what the FBI demands in a National Security Letter. "
The FBI gets an NSL on me at their own risk. I'm pretty sure they'd lose agents who'd die of boredom... or go crazi(er).
People... there are files that you just don't want to risk reading lest they rot your brain... if you have one.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/the-national-security-letter-...
My bad Jethro, if only I'd read down a bit farther...BT
Those servers need lots of water for cooling....
On top of the all the state security stuff there is a pronounced effort by the computer/internet/data/media industries to dumb down computer usage.
After the introduction of Windows 8, 8.1 and now 10 there is a methodical and intentional effort to force everyone onto cell phones for info consumption and constant monitoring - its just for customer satisfaction!
It's all about beaming shit down to you and limit anything insightful or provocative that goes up - everything will be metered and even prepaid for in the future.
Programs and system utilities are becoming harder to find and what this means is anyone with half a brain and interest lurking for knowledge will be seen as an enemy of the state/corporate.
You already see this with Saudi Arabia threatening to sue people for comparing ISIS to Saud on the inter-blogs.
When will the SPLC or the Democratic Party or Exxon start suing because their corporate agendas are commented on?
#allyourbasebelongtous
Well sue away because most Americans are judgement proof having zero assets and after they can't pay the cell phone bill and cut the cord they won't be reading the NYT, CNN or even Disney. They'll be squatting in their shacks whittlin' in the dark.
You're just a Node to be unplugged if you burn too bright.
We can take back the process, we just have to find someone who will stand up and convince us he is honest by saying "9/11 was a false flag operation involving the US government".
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/why-not-presidential-debat...
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/the-next-false-flag/
Funny to think for a second but if you read Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of party competition about the amount of political power you seek, the more economic power you need. It is a selective process. It is political theater, pick your poison, choose daddy dominatrix or the senile sociopath grandmother. Rats have sweet faces, and there is many in country and they are here, until an opposing force gathers to eradicate this banking crime syndicate and start fresh and new, give humanity a fair chance were the people can truly decide what happens next.
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma converted NSA into stasi spying on everyone , Snowden left USA to Russia
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma using CIA funded NGO & militant rebels to topple foreign govts, Ukraine broke up & its gold looted(by USA) .
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma sanctioned Russia , Petroyuan is born, SWIFT is also on the chopping block
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma stopped the govt from functioning & locked the gates of govt. buildings, HAh ha
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma started QE with the help of kaballah dumping trillions of dollar down the drain
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma took millions of bribe(election fund) from pharma; pharma industry hiking prices of medicines by many hundred times, started obamacare to loot the Americans & benefit corpoate shylocks
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma promoting drug abuse , a formula for destroying mind, body & soul. People may become like in Romania where drug addicted ppl live in underground sewers , have sex for money and get HIV/AIDS
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma forces all govts to become (pro) homosexuals; threatening the very existence of the most sacred institution in the world : THE FAMILY ; He is a destroyer of family , a demon from hellCabalA$$LickerHomObamma's actions will lead to collapse of petrodollar , USA's influence & power will vanish, Americans will be begging
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma created , funded , armed & mishandled ISIS . Other countries too facing trouble created by America & CIA , Libya, Thailand, Egypt, Iraq, Syria , Vietnam.The world is on the brink of a world war 3 , probably nuclear , threatening the very existence of humankind ('Dont do anything stupid' ; who is stupid now).
Sadly, an all out, completely destructive event like WWIII is probably the only way change is ever going to happen. break it all down to its sub-atomic constituent elements, and then rebuild with what is left. One gets pretty worn out and demoralized by constantly worrying and being paranoid all of the time. life can, and should be a wondrous thing, not this half life we have today...
one word answer: Defund
This is exactly what I was looking for here. Your comment is underrated.
Turns out, it was underrated when I told my Congress-Critter the same thing at a "town-hall" meeting 7 years ago.
Ya. And when he returned home there was a cute little package sitting on your Congresscritter's doorstep-return address "NSA" . It even had pictures with the day, date and time of him playing "doctor" with the girl across the street at age 5.....
My critters are so pre-selected, it doesnt matter what I tell them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4
George Carlin on Global Warming
Create a virus that infects millions of computers and sends out every known CARNIVORE keyword.
Millions of infected PCs spewing out every terrorist keyword there is.
Security through obscurity.
the equivalent of the data dump. give them so much they can't handle it...
Brute force attack...
I pretty much assume that any comment I make that is not in the very very deep woods with all cell phones left in a car two miles away can be overheard by "something." And if it can be overheard, it can be stored for future use if blackmail or destruction is necessary. I'm not even sure about the deep deep woods anymore.
Hell I'm not even sure if my thoughts can't be heard. Which is why a better way forward has always been, and always will be, realizing the ways that our internal thoughts are similar to everyone else's. I really can't see what any government security agency would want with all that mundane shit. I mean who pays them and why? We all feel insecure and have fucked up and feel guilty over things, unless we're psychopaths, in which case they're already in power...
Internet is really a paradox. I remember when it came. It turned out to be the greatest tool and contribution to democracy , and the freedom of speech for ordinary people that has ever been around. Finally everybody could have an uncensored say in everything. Up until then , this was a right only the mainstream media had.
Today , after a couple of decades, politicians has finally managed to catch up and seize control of it. As a result , internet has become the direct opposite and as a consequence even more people than before (using internet) are arrested and prosecuted while expressing their rights to freedom of speech.
It’s the Dark ages all over again, and there is no place to hide. If you put all your energy into the interest of sports and spend all your time before the tv with popcorn and beer you probably are in the clear though.
And people wonder why AMZN, GOOG, FB etc keep rising?
Fuck em.
Fuck them all.
Government blows. BIG government blows huge chunks of industrial waste - 24/7/365.
These fucktwats can know all about me - who gives a shit about me.
The real fun comes when all this shit-show comes to a grinding halt, and they have millions upon millions of people they have been "watching" to do ....
what....round up and put into FEMA camps? LOL...good luck. Yeah yeah....let's see it happen. This government cannot do SHIT right, well or with any sort of precision or good effort.
I could give a flying shit what the government thinks says or wants. The fuckers are corrupt, liars and douchebags.
This is headed towards one of only two outcomes. Either we guarantee absolute anonymity for all communications, commerce, and travel for every citizen or we accept that our children will live under a tyranny more absolute than any ever known before by mankind. Thanks to the new digital technologies, there is no longer any middle ground.
Thieves Emporium is a primer on the subject, an excellent analysis of the conflict wrapped up in accurate fast-paced fiction. Think Hackers vs The Deep State. Or maybe Atlas Shrugged brought into the Internet age.
If you read only one book this year, this should be it.
Rated 4.6 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Thieves-Emporium-Max-Hernandez-ebook/dp/B00CWWWRK0
Stasi surveillance was not so successful either. When everybody was spying on each othter, the country went belly up. Procceeds from NSA and the foreign policy point into the very direction.
Crime Syndicate System Control: Sexual Entrapment Operations
http://winteractionables.com/?p=28037
Have a slice of mellon and wait for President Carson to give y'all your labotomies.
Haha why blame and scapegoat the gubment? Huh?
Most 'mericans are willing snitches.
Mothers would sell their kids out and tattle on daddy just to one up their ex's in frivorce court.
People worship cops, literally. These are supposidly grown men and women. If a cop shoots someone in the back and has no gun, all of a sudden these people are now 'heroes'. Heroes for what? Being a parasite?
In one city in Texas they fired the whole police force. Crime went down 60%!
Judges and prosecutors who lie and coverup evidence. Hell, I know a jidge who sold out his friends because the local pd probably knows his hidden kiddie porn stash....
All get reelected. None ever get indicted for their crimes.
No no no. The people of the usa have been everything they claimed and worse than ze Nazies. And yet they still have the gall to put them down.
Most people I come into contact are worthless specimens of psychopathy.
Seriously. And the biggest hypocrites are the people who go to 'church'. Especially the catholics.
No no, most people in the usa are low life scum.
They deserve to be watched in their concentration camp without walls.
The women watch those legal teevee shows and all of a sudden they are all lawyers.
People are always in your business, telling you how to do better. Cause they are soooo smarter and see things better than you.
Everyone knows whats best.
Great effort was made to turn the American society into the Gay 20s of Germany. Mission Accomplished. Self indulgent, little minded, judgmental, false confidence and false pride, sounds like deadly sins. But in 400 years, the humans unfortunately enough to be born will need realize we left them to live an eternal state of slavery simply because we were fooled into doing. Yes, I grumble under my breath a few times a week, "you deserve this" but the American public is the Frankenstein created in a laboratory by the men at the top of the very bizarre pyramid/Ponzi scheme. USA posed a threat for obvious reasons and covert operatioin was only method which would undermine it.
If there truly were wild wild west gun fighters running the streets of the USA, dead judges would number in the 1000s, bankers in the 10,000s, politicians who sat in a seat for last 40 years, 100,000s. Silent coup hs been underway since John F. Kennedy was assassinated with the assistance of CIA and Secret Service, the very mechanism in place to protect them. Neutered the wall of protection around the leader of a free world. Academia must be in a cuckhold, orifices obstructed with the appendages of their largest benefactors. Don't blame people who have been sedated, poised, drugged, given the wrong information, and every other tactic to encourage decadence and self gratification above all else.
What a stupid comment.
First you talk about deadly sins....then you end it with why blame us, we are victims? Well which is it you daffy cunt?
What a complete and total lack of logic.
Only a stupid woman could write such nonsense.
And you have been here for 5 years.
Hint: Look for the word 'but'...you will see the logic. The poster makes some good rhetorical points and articulates the situation in clear, concise and vivid terms that obviouly escape you...
What i find ironic here, is that your writing style is more chaotic and less comprehensible, yet you criticise.
Diogenes would be spinning in his barrel.
They deserve to be watched in their concentration camp without walls
At least we are doing something worth watching; goat fucking is so third century AD
Wrong boyo.
The NSA is watching people live pointless lives, watching the karashians and trying to live the reality lifestyle.
Neither life is better.
Was listening to an argument for NSA bulk collection on Fox. Reporter actually said it was important to catch certain words or phrases. Umm that's not meta data. Thats transcribing all conversations and then sifting through it. Big fucking difference.
The NSA and CIA are traitors to their fellow man, country and world.
Call them what they really represent. Most Americans believe Uncle Sam is their God. They may get angry if the word traitor is used. It is like the word blashpemy is used with an ISIS extremist,
The watchers watching the watchers is a huge energy sink that is bleeding the system. Obama promised us a domestic army that would be as large and as well funded as the military. We are there. I suspect the Stazi never imagined that their country would be overrun by Moslem invaders and they would be out of work. The future is a blur. Nobody knows how this will turn out or how it will unwind.
yes, the mailmen are spying too:
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/33772-the-us-postal-servi...
funny how most of the commenters on that are unaware of certain post office realities or how its different than its original design. (like pretty much everything in the government, nothing operates according to its original design any longer.)
Well, that's nice.
They still want to know my thoughts.
I was starting to think they didn't care about me any longer.
Surveillance, in any land where it is ubiquitous and inescapable, generates distrust and divisions among its citizens, curbs their readiness to speak freely to each other, and diminishes their willingness to even dare to think freely.
-Ariel Dorfman
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As I point out in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, 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.
Did you point out in your book why the people of this country can give their government the right to spy on the populace ... but "can't" give the populace the right to use that data to expose what the government operatives are doing?
Why did WTC7 fall down? Don't you suppose we can know by looking into the NSA databases?
I used to think - and claim - that the government could never spy on 380,000,000 Americans with any degree of success.
But, then I began to break down the numbers and found sources for figures after Snowden. It's entirely possible and is happening. There are roughly 1 million people in this country with hig level security clearnaces, and that doesn't iclude your state police, local police, and any of a huge number of unelected government worker drones at local, state and federal level, ready to snitch you out so they can get a fresh new star on their lapel and prove they are forever one of the (make your choice) tribe, clan, party, gang.
Of 380 million Americans, probably half or more are not worth surveilling, so the assholes can spend their time on the rest, so it's down to about 190 "subjects" to each spy.
Doable.
Also, want to save social security? Easy. Import millions of illegals, make them pay into the SS system, then kill off as many people over 45 as possible, by whatever means available (random acts of violence), and especially those who are either about to collect benefits or are already collecting.
The ACA fits nicely into this world. Get health care coverage and forget about death panels. Your own doctors will kill you with their prescription drugs. They do it every day.
You can't win. You can survive. Surviving as best one can while avoiding the system in all its myriad forms and permutations is a realistic goal. Go. Off. Grid.
Surveillance tyranny doesn't require a lot of people. With advances in AI and big data mining, it can be all accomplished by algorithm.
And it is as likely to stop as a junkie is likely to stop his heroin habit.
Power loves control. Privacy impedes control. Thus no privacy.
Anyone find it ironic that America has outsourced the spying on its citizens to England?
Spot on here's proof, sure most have seen this already.
Feds reveal breadth of requests for Internet records...
Individual's complete web history, online purchase records...
MAG: No, NSA Phone Spying Has Not Ended...
All from Drudge.