Does Uncle Sam Have a God Complex?

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/07/15



'NSA surveillance proliferates in a context that goes well beyond spying.'

Does Uncle Sam Have a God Complex?
by Norman Solomon
Published on Tuesday, July 15, 2014 by Common Dreams

As a matter of faith, some people believe that God can see and hear everything. But as a matter of fact, the U.S. government now has the kind of surveillance powers formerly attributed only to a supreme being.

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Since last summer, revelations about NSA programs have been so profuse and complex that it’s difficult to gain an overview, to see the surveillance state’s toxic forest for the digital trees. But the macro picture has to do with a mind-blowing agenda for monitoring the people of the world.

“For me, the most significant revelation is the ambition of the United States government and its four English-speaking allies to literally eliminate privacy worldwide, which is not hyperbole,” journalist Glenn Greenwald said at a news conference three months ago. “The goal of the United States government is to collect and store every single form of electronic communication that human beings have with one another and give themselves the capacity to monitor and analyze those communications.”

Such a goal, formerly reserved for the more fundamentalist versions of God, is now firmly entrenched at the top of the U.S. government — and at the top of corporate America. As Greenwald pointed out, “There almost is no division between the private sector and the NSA, or the private sector and the Pentagon, when it comes to the American ‘national security’ state. They really are essentially one.”

[djean111]

1. I think there WAS a god complex - now it seems to be only money that matters.

The god complex was corporatized. (Made that word up, sorry)

[archaic56]

2. Yes..but it's the darkside who runs it

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/07/nsa-blackmailing-world.html

I am trying to find more sources.. but for now.. this may be an answer.. or it may not..
I have no dog in the fight.Just thought it's an interesting piece and a possible reason no one blows the whistle on nefarious dealings in DC (or as I like to call it.. the pit of vipers)