WARRANTLESS SPYING ISN'T FOR CATCHING
TERRORISTS
We know that:
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NSA analysts know that warrantless spying weakens security;
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calling patterns can be used to connect anyone to terrorists;
and
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it is probabilistically impossible to find terrorists via mass
surveillance of an entire population.
The NSA isn't stupid, they can do the math. This program was
never about catching terrorists. So what is it for? I don't
claim to know, I literally can't imagine all the new forms of
abuse that will be enabled by the largest database in history.
Our government claims and uses the power to kidnap its citizens,
imprison them indefinitely without charges or access to courts,
torture them, and kill them, all without any oversight or
pretense of due process. History teaches harsh lessons about
what tyrants will do with those powers. A few things that we
know already:
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Narus vacuum cleaners record anything and everything that
travels the internet:e-mails, attachments, web pages, VOIP calls;
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the NSA intends to share the spy data with other government
agencies;
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the NSA is tracking peaceful protestors;
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the FBI and local police are spying on political, environmental,
anti-war and faith-based groups;
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the FBI is issuing 30,000 secret "National Security
Letters" every year demanding information about people who
are not connected to terrorism and who are not suspected of any
wrongdoing; and
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Halliburton is being paid $385 million to construct mass
detention centers.
The "debate" about security versus
privacy is a sham, the real question is one of liberty
versus control. This horrible weapon of freedom destruction
is a massive extension of government control into the lives of
literally every American. It will add terrible new meanings to
the phrase "guilt by association."
The thugs will continue expanding their
control until we stop them. It is that simple. The question is,
do we stop them before or after the detention centers are filled
to capacity?
Posted by Silver @ 07:28 AM CST [Link]