Posted on 06/12/2013 5:15:04 PM PDT by johnny reb
America's Enemies Now Using Carrier Pigeons and Invisible Ink Letters: the Absurdist, Tragicomic Narratives of Domestic Surveillance
If you know your electronic communication is being monitored, you start using couriers, carrier pigeons and invisible ink snail-mail--anything other than electronic communication.
The recent confirmation of programmatic domestic surveillance is rich with absurdist, tragi-comic narratives. Just to take the most obvious:
1. Is anyone dumb enough and/or credulous enough to believe "the bad guys" aren't aware of U.S. surveillance and electronic monitoring capabilities? Garsh, why did Osama bin Laden use couriers rather than his mobile phone?
Is anyone dumb enough and/or credulous enough to believe the bad guys think their communications within the U.S. or between non-U.S. and U.S. groups are safe from U.S. surveillance/monitoring because they really really trust the Bill of Rights to protect them?
Naivete about what the U.S. National Security State is capable of is highly correlated to which end of the drone strike you're on.
2. Why are Total Awareness surveillance/monitoring/data-capture programs considered news? All of this has been in the public-space media for years: exactly what is new? That a media-savvy young insider confirmed what a bunch of less media-genic outsiders have written about for years? Please re-read these stories if you missed them the first time--all are highly recommended:
(Excerpt) Read more at oftwominds.com ...
Here comes the pigeon tax, and more IRSS agents to open and read snails.
and carbon tax increases
Your links are Dead end. A blog page, but this script is nowhere to be readily found. It may be a few pages in, but I’m too lazy to dig through some one elses life.
Ixnay on the igeons-pay ;-)
Shhhhh....
I believe numbers stations are still used. Run across them occasionally.
Osama bin Laden, as has been well documented, had not used a phone for years, precisely because of this. And for those who think they are not listening to the content of calls, they could immediately recognize and flag the sound of his voice.
Bin Laden was caught because of the links to him were found. PRISM is nothing more than the system used to find the links to him, applied to everyone now.
like your username.
As for enemy , well is that us now?
Sorry I got the links from Zero Hedge try here http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-12/americas-enemies-now-using-carrier-pigeons-and-invisible-ink-letters-absurd-tragicom
IIRC, one of the commie idiots in either Congress or the Senate announced to the national media we were going to get bin Laden in Tora Bora because we were picking up his cell phone signals. That's exactly when he quit using it.
my coffee group discussed this when the massive data grab story broke last week. - back to carrier pigeons, secret codes and short wave.
my coffee group discussed this when the massive data grab story broke last week. - back to carrier pigeons, secret codes and short wave.
Is anyone dumb enough and/or credulous enough to believe that the U.S. surveillance/monitoring system is bothering with targeting Islamic terrorists? Egads, the government knows where they are! They've got freaking training camps on American soil!!!
The system is clearly targeted at American conservatives, as the treatment of the TEA Party by both Democrat and Republican administrations attests.
Snail mail is monitored look at the bar codes.
The NSA has nothing to do with security and everything to do with control.
They just hand the messages to Biden and they come out garbled.
To decipher, you have to know what Joe had to drink that morning.
Apparently they’re now photographing snail mail. (Hopefully just the outsides of the envelopes)
We’re giving preference to immigrants from terrorist producing regions.
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