Both the Washington Post and Guardian claim that the NSA has “direct” access to the system belonging to nine Internet companies, in order to monitor data. That information was required in order to “effectively plan, direct and conduct detection and monitoring of illegal narcoterrorist activities”, Like the orange drink Tang grew out of the space program, this is just one more spinoff from our dubious war on drugs but this spinoff could be poisonous.
When are we going to stop waging war against ourselves with ever more Star Wars weapons? We have already used drones, what's next, nuclear weapons? When will we finally decide that the war on drugs is killing our democracy and has already gone a long way toward killing our Constitution?
>> When will we finally decide that the war on drugs is...
When it’s legal for the average citizen to execute a drug dealer for hooking minors.