Zen GardnerA well written piece today again from Activist Post tells the real story of what’s going on in our beyond Orwellian world. While the glaring truth of an almost infinitely instrusive government hits the headline, the tables are once again turning on the informer versus the truth that’s being told.
No better analogy or contrapostion could be had to our falteringly credible reality, yet a media adoring public buys this disinformational misdirecting rubric with glee.
A very sad state of affairs to witness in anyone’s lifetime.
Eric Blair – Activist Post
In a free society the government is supposed to be open and transparent while the citizens enjoy privacy. What, then, do you call a society where the government is ultra secretive and all citizens are spied on by the state?
Establishment pundits are frantically attempting to make the NSA spy scandal story about whether the whistleblower is a hero or a traitor instead of debating the real issue — whether broad government spying on U.S. citizens violates their Constitutional rights.
This divide-and-distract strategy has long been used to protect the real criminals to a free society. Some officials are taking the extreme position that the NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, committed treason by releasing proof of what most Americans already suspected, that their every move is being spied on by their government.
These officials, like Rep. Peter King (R-NY) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), also happen to be the staunchest advocates for destroying the Bill of Rights, the Fourth Amendment in particular. Snowden broke a corporate disclosure contract; these officials broke their oath to the Constitution. Who are the real traitors here?
Director of National Intelligence (DNI), James Clapper, claims that a leaked court document proving the government is colluding with communications companies to spy on Americans causes ‘irreversible harm’ to national security, and that the leaker should be prosecuted under the Espionage Act.
This is the same James Clapper that lied under oath to Congress when Senator Ron Wyden asked him in a Senate hearing this March, “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” MORE>>
Pretty damn sobering. As if this home espionage game is anything new. Just search Echelon in Australia and you’ll get an eyeful. And they’ve been around for decades. Hey, spying from ANOTHER country wasn’t stipulated against.
Leave it up the NSA. It’ s their business – and “everywhere you’re gonna be.”
The fascist bastards.
Zen
The true underlying purpose of this data collection is obviously for domination and control of the population. Dictators and communist leaders have always spied on their people to identify and target “dissidents” to remain in control.
They no longer need spies, modern technology has allowed this practice to become transparent.
– perhaps this is what Obama meant when he promised more transparency.