Posted on 06/08/2013 8:00:54 AM PDT by darkwing104
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin
Last February Maxine Waters in an interview stated “The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life,” She continued to reveal “That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before”. This week Americans were surprised to learn that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting phone call information of American Verizon customers. Like all of the recent Obama Administration scandals, this story wasn’t released by the American media but by the British Press.
PRISM
“PRISM” is a corporate partnership between the FBI, NSA and several large Internet providers to collect any and all electronic communications, including those between Americans. In accordance with federal law, American internet companies are required to provide user information to government and law enforcement officials upon request. PRISM is a back door to allow the NSA and FBI direct access to commercial servers at any time with the “assistance of communications providers in the US”.
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Right up there with the other letter groups: KGB, NKVD, SPLC, SS (both of them), POTUS, AGUS, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FBI—all of them who helped install or empower dictatorships.
I am confident that today, millions of Americans are thinking twice about what they say, who they say it to, what they purchase and where they go.
Bingo. They have already accomplished part of their goal. Shut down free speech and freedom of association through intimidation.
NOT TRUE!!! I continue to speak my mind every day. I get some odd looks and can tell that some people are afraid to show they agree with me but even more seem to simply shy away.
The most secret of all.
New? They’ve been doing this for decades. Nothing new about it.
I agree! We need to go after those that knew in DC and at the NSA and hold them accountable!
Brings up thoughts of that movie, Enemy of the State.
I didn’t say everybody would be intimidated, but many will.
Don't forget to drop off your Freeper card and your patriot I.D. as you head out the door. See ya!
By my count, at least a third of Freepers have already surrendered, and are just waiting for the JBTs to load them on the gulag bus.
Heck, I think some of them have called Dial-A-Ride!
Why can't we elect people that understand the english language?
"In life"?
"on ways"???
"that it’s never been done before"?
They have recreated the Stasi on steroids. That should scare the bejesus out of anyone. Well, at least to all who even are aware of the Stasi.
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