when the parties
became the same
when the former
passed the latter
"we've been outdone"
Secret courts approving a surveillance package of all citizens communications.
Internet and phone companies legally obligated to provide warrantless government access to all data; emails, searches, purchases, phone calls, etc.
found this comment about NYT editorial saying Snowden had no reason to fear coming back to the states.
- from Bill Appledorf
Talk about shooting the messenger.
There would be no conversation about mass surveillance and its implications for American democracy if it were not for Edward Snowden -- because government spying was a deep dark secret before he told us what is going on -- and yet all anyone in the corporate media wants to talk about is what to do about Edward Snowden.
Here is what to do about Edward Snowden: give him a medal!
And do your investigative job.
Does no one in the U.S. media have the merest grasp of how toxic a surveillance state is to free speech, freedom of association, political dissent, and virtually every aspect of civil society upon which rests the possibility of a safe and secure life in the USA?
For all the talk about militants in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and dozens of other countries, the biggest threat to the American public today is corporate rule, the militarization of everything, and a surveillance apparatus that would make the Stasi drool.
Unbelievable.
There would be no conversation about mass surveillance and its implications for American democracy if it were not for Edward Snowden -- because government spying was a deep dark secret before he told us what is going on -- and yet all anyone in the corporate media wants to talk about is what to do about Edward Snowden.
Here is what to do about Edward Snowden: give him a medal!
And do your investigative job.
Does no one in the U.S. media have the merest grasp of how toxic a surveillance state is to free speech, freedom of association, political dissent, and virtually every aspect of civil society upon which rests the possibility of a safe and secure life in the USA?
For all the talk about militants in Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and dozens of other countries, the biggest threat to the American public today is corporate rule, the militarization of everything, and a surveillance apparatus that would make the Stasi drool.
Unbelievable.
