Posted on 07/25/2012 10:40:37 AM PDT by JOAT
It earned the name for precisely the reasons described.
The budget for the NSA was not a line item in the budget presented to the public.
It was funded off the record
If you want to compare your silly Kroger card to tracking your movements and communication, go ahead and giggle.
The US government actually cheers a terrorist bombing that kills four high ranking members of a foreign government, and only Russia and China seem to have problems with that.
A PhD neuroscience student, receiving thousands in government grants, mail orders cases of ammunition, and Homeland Security sees nothing wrong with that.
So the obvious lesson here is that if you are a gay terrorist ordering ammunition by the bucket load and you cheer terrorist bombings, you have nothing to worry about.
At this rate, one day you might wake up and discover Hitler is running your country.
Picture a govt investigator sitting down at his terminal and typing in your name..since an email of yours caught their attention. Up comes a list of people with your name and dates of birth and email address. Picks you..and a home page comes up with a picture of you from DMV...and various tabs. Email, known IP addresses, social networks, credit cards, loyality programs, know associates, relatives, criminal record, airline flights, passport info..etc. Everything that is captured by the computer is there. Then he types in your phone/mobile phone number and turns it on...camera and mic. He has your current location and monitors your snoring. All this is happening. Get used to it.
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