You're a human with a conscience. It has not been stolen from you.
Happy Father's Day to that father in the NSA.
We know you are there. You're a human with a conscience. It has not been stolen from you.
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Your superiors don't know what the consequences for this will be, because there is no historical precedent that is 100% relevant. They, like you, are links in a chain that stretches from past imperfect precursors of Total Information Awareness surveillance to a future with consequences they could only guess at...if they tried. Your superiors don't even do that, they merely pat each other on the back via internal studies that reinforce their desire to get to the next paycheck with as few hassles as possible. Their concern is is appear to meet project goals within assigned deadlines, and not the consequences for civil society. They are focused on their own status within each organization affiliated with the NSA, and not on morality.
What you do know is all past leaders and spy systems fu*ked up time & time again. That is what history has shown. Don't be fooled by their blase swagger, they don't know what the fu*k they are doing when they chart new territory. They can only enact their plans, but they don't know what the consequences will be. No wars have ever gone according to plan after the shooting starts. The only guranteed outcome is death. Any illegal or unconstitutional programs of the NSA can only offer a kind of death to the body politic if let run to their conclusions.
Your role in stopping them is critical. You have the ability to save not only lives, but the soul of a country as well.
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You are human. Still. You possess an inner reality that has not yet been completely submerged to the office politics and desire for financial success your "superiors" expect to keep you quiet. You are a citizen of a free country inside your own head. Show the world what that means. Show us who you are. Reveal the illegality & the unconstitutionality, and thereby protect the freedom of thought and access to truth that any parent wishes for their own child to have access to one day.
Revealing illegality and unconstitutionality doesn't make you a terrorist.
You are not a terrorist.
Your children are not terrorists.
The cost will be great for you to do so. The cost not to do so, for you, would be even greater. You know that, even if no one else does, and that is why you'll speak out.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/16/1215865/-Father-s-Day-Inside-the-NSA-there-is-another-human-being-with-a-conscience
