Just saw the same thing mentioned here tonight. I think the logic is airtight.
Posted on 06/06/2013 4:56:00 PM PDT by Nachum
The Washington Post has published a remarkable report showing that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been monitoring the central servers of major Internet companies -- Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple -- and "extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time."
Why did a government source leak information of this program, dubbed "PRISM," to the Post? What follows is perhaps the most chilling paragraph I've read to date about U.S. government surveillance:
Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
In the wake of last night's Guardian report about the NSA's collection of Verizon phone user metadata, the New York Times editorial board argued that the Obama administration "has now lost all credibility" in defending its abuses of executive power. That was before the report about PRISM, which unlike the Verizon metadata, includes surveillance of user content.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
We should probably look on the bright side of this situation.
Somebody must have a kicking cat video library.
Yep.
This is why when I type I think about totally unrelated things, so no one can watch my ideas form. For example, while I was typing this sentence, instead of thinking about the content of this sentence, the idea I had was to clean the litter box before I go to bed so I don't wake up to any surprises in the living room tomorrow morning.
By using this method I prevent them from watching my ideas form as I type, rendering their surveillance moot.
Smart phones, dumb phones, land lines, you have no privacy.
I'm with you. Whatever it takes to restore my beloved country.
Actually, there's one interim step between the third and last box, and that is massive, widespread civil disobedience. I didn't say violence. I said civil disobedience, like what Gandhi and MLK used to force sweeping social change.
I would argue that we're between step three and four right now, and that we still have a window of opportunity to peacefully restore our republic to its foundational moorings.
But as they say, "opportunity waits for no man." We'd better hurry, or we'll be left with but one terrible option.
Is it being leaked now because the enemy is So In Your Camp that they no longer have to be stealth?
Satan’s victory dance?
Gene, it's a fundamental abridgement of the 4th Amendment. It's inspection before the fact. A terrible, and unwarranted invasion of every American's privacy.
There's got to be a better way.
Ezekiel 37
1. The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the wind of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones:
2. And he led me around among them; and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, behold, they were very dry:
3. And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, you know:
4. And he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the word of the Lord:
5. Thus says the Lord God to these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live:
6. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the Lord:
America is not like other nations. Different spirit.
Isaiah 1.
7. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; as for your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as if overthrown by strangers:
8. And the daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city:
9. If the Lord of hosts had not left us a very small remnant, we should have been like Sodom, and we should have been like Gomorrah:
Can these bones live? Od Yosef chai.
All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today.
Shouldn't be hard to locate with a search. You should post it.
By using this method I prevent them from watching my ideas form as I type, rendering their surveillance moot.
So, what does one do with all that ammonium nitrate?
I’ve seen a reference to the 3rd amendment as well. We’re literally being required to quarter the kings men (devices) within our homes. (smart meters, phones of all kinds, etc)
Just saw the same thing mentioned here tonight. I think the logic is airtight.
You are being watched.
I am sure all Freepers are “Persons of Interest.”
I trusted Bush. I did not trust any government with the power that the Patriot Act gave government be it Bush or Obama. Under Obama the powers of the patriot act have expanded and are now the iron glove of tyranny of government.
I felt the danger of a second 9/11 attack on us was far less dangerous than a government with the powers of the patriot act and the expanded powers of this act under the Obama Administration.
Terrorists can only kill a few thousand of us on a good day. A central government of tyranny can enslave us all and kill us at will. A tyrannical central government is many times more dangerous than any terrorists could dream of being.
Why couldn’t you keep the old “untrackable” one?
FRmail as necessary ;)
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