Every new revelation of NSA surveillance is a new affront to basic privacy, and goes far further than anyone had dared to imagine. Every time, the White House is there to defend it.
So when the New York Times revealed over the weekend that the NSA has for the past 3 years been using its wholesale data collection from American citizens to construct elaborate maps of “social connections,” it was only a matter of time before the White House shrugged it off as perfectly legal and reasonable.
The program is about as unreasonable as it gets, with the agency using metadata, GPS locations and voter records from ordinary Americans to figure out who is friends with who, and connecting people indirectly to others of “intelligence interest.”
It’s sort of a George Orwell meets six degrees of Kevin Bacon program, and is exactly the sort of obscene, grand scale privacy violation that the administration had repeatedly assured Americans the NSA would never think of doing.
But now that the cat is out of the bag, the story has changed, and White House spokesman Jay Carney, while refusing to discuss the specifics of the program, insisted that finding out who you might currently know, or conceivably meet from a friend of a friend, is a vital national security interest.
While the White House has at times expressed support for the “dialogue” ongoing with respect to the NSA’s abuse of privacy, they likewise seem outraged by every new leak, saying that informing the public of just how violated they are is itself a major crime.
I read here that Nancy Pelosi or if it was Feinstein or Barbara Boxer or one of those democrats who hade said that "media should not call NSA surveillance spying" now the WH is saying that: spying is totally legal and ok"! Concluding that surveillance is spying and the core of spying is surveillance.
it was that authoritarian control freak Feinstein who said it and she is the one who wants to determine who is a real journalist.
The government is controlled by the wealthy. Why do the wealthy want this? Because we have a fascist government that is going to protect them against the rest of us.
We need a strong labor movement in this country. That is the only way you can promote the interests of the masses. That is how communism was overthrown in Eastern Europe.
Big Brotha Barack is Watching You!
We need to clean this Filthy pit of demons out of Washington..ONE WAY OR THE OTHER–HOPEFULLY A METEOR WILL HIT –WASHINGTON-IS RA HELL- AND LONDON–THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE DEMONS
The solution is withdrawal of consent, nullification, and secession. Watch for it everywhere.
It is the unintended consequence that the elite cannot manage or control.
Call me paranoid, but this sounds more and more like the kind of operation that is eerily similar to what the Bolshevik Communists did when they seized control of Russia in 1917. They are creating a national database which contains the names of anyone who they perceive to be an enemy. Or, even anyone who might be a friend or associate with someone who they perceive to be an enemy.
This has to have only one purpose. They are planning on mass round-ups and mass exterminations of the opposition to their lust to recreate the new Soviet Union Communist police state. Remember what Bill Ayers, one of Obama's favorite mentors said? Ayers estimated that about 25 million people (based on the US population numbers back in the 1960s and 1970s) would have to be killed, since they would refuse to be indoctrinated and transformed into obedient little Communists.
This is what the NSA has been doing, folks. Creating lists of people who need to be liquidated at some point in the future.
OK: you're paranoid.
Given the US is ruled by corporations the closer and more accurate analogy would be Germany in the thirties. Everything done by the SS etc was legal under German law at the time.
And yet if "the people" SPY on the government, we are labelled TERRORISTS. I do want the government spies to make a note about my Aunt Gump's operation. It was a doozie !
big brother own w you….
This revelation really should be the tipping point. It is an inescapably obvious reality that the surveillance apparatus is being used to preempt any opposition to the regimists and their agenda. There is no other reason to create a social map of Americans than to be able to carry out NKVD-style mass arrests in an operationally efficient way. Seriously, Americans are at the point where if they do nothing, they will find themselves quoting Solzhenitsyn:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Why do you think Maobama and his minions are desperately trying to render the 2nd Amendment null and void? They are fully aware that the right to bear arms is, to quote George Washington, "the people's liberty teeth." Ironically, Maobama has been the gun makers' best salesman. Every false-flag op (like Fast & Furious) and convenient mass shooting that he tries to use as an excuse for a huge gun grab results in the people buying even more guns and ammo.
The question is, would they have the balls to use them?
The big question is, would those buyers ever really use them in the manner the 2nd Amendment intended?
Damn! One thing after another and they still look at you with a straight face while lying again. They haven't even the decency to resign.
Resign? They believe they are acting in the best interest of the country…well, the elite (themselves) at least.