--Re (News): The government is watching
you.
If you live within the United
States, you probably have not heard much about the spying campaign
being waged by a multitude of organizations. Wired Magazine did a
fantastic piece on the level of spying taking place (link included
below), and it comes as no surprise to people who are involved in the
tech industry. This has been confirmed on numerous reputable
independent news coverage including “Democracy Now!”, “The
Young Turks”, and so on. CSPAN has footage on testimony provided by
these incredibly powerful individuals involved in the echelons of
spying already taking place.
Numerous whistleblowers tried to
sound the bell regarding the illegal dragnet spying, including
William Binney a former NSA director of World Geopolitical and
Military Analysis Reporting Group. He had worked for the NSA for
nearly three decades and was heavily involved in developing the
system that has been in use today to spy on American citizens. In the
interview by “Democracy Now!”, Mr. Binney states that the NSA
truly is lying and has been monitoring American citizens under the
excuse of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. What this means is that every
American citizen who utilizes or produces any type of data (this
includes cell phone calls) as had this information recorded.
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| Mr. Binney, Former NSA Director. |
I saw a disturbed individual on
the train (who hasn't?) a couple years back, and he seemed to be on
edge. He rather audibly let the rest of the passengers know that one
of the reasons (I think he was seeing figures that were not there as
well) he was so frightened was because the government was watching.
Before I got the hell off that compartment of the train, I heard him
remark that all of us were idiots. I actually did agree with him
partially, but the extent to which I agreed was slightly less.
Cameras and law enforcement are all over NYC, and we as individuals
are constantly documenting one another. Combined with all the
tracking applications on our cell phones, and easy camera access, we
can easily be tracked 24/7. However, I guess I refused to believe
the extent to which monitoring was taking place by the government
entities and it's associates...
These new reports prove that the
NSA and other agencies with similar capacities have been actively
working to collect information on the citizenry. These are completely
against the rights of American citizens, and work to undermine
democracy in the “Leader of the Free world” itself. If these
sorts of unreasonable searches and seizures are taking place with our
data with impunity, who knows what other kinds of fraud waste and
abuse are occurring. If this is the case, then truly what is the
point of the government? The government is suppose to guard against
such things, not participate in them. Then again, the whole 2008
economic crisis and the steps that were taken to protect the banks
instead of the citizenry certainly lends credence to these claims
Read my earlier post regarding ways to guard your privacy and to make
yourself virtually anonymous. Also read up on information regarding
Jacob Applebaum and the whole TOR project movement. Remember that
this is the government, and that apparently they are getting paid to
compromised your privacy and security.
Oh, and regarding those not in the
United States, but who have made contact with American citizens in
the United States, those interactions have always been recorded.
Sources:
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