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In reply to the discussion: I am getting sick and fucking tired of hearing that anyone opposed to NSA domestic . . . . [View all]Whisp
(24,096 posts)and there is also no reasonable discussion if that is not cleared first. Greenwald and whoever is backing him behind the curtains, wants everyone to believe that. You going to let him play you like that?
I'm not.
And the Cesca piece was not an embarrassment at all, to me for posting it or him for writing about it. It's ironic and funny as all hell having the image of Glenn spouting about spying and privacy when corporate click click clicking is going on in the basement that knows a hell of a lot more personal things about you and I than the NSA could dream about or want to even bother about.
I think the whole issue is more about gathering information than spying. The conversation has been glanced toward that direction by few with that intent. Those are two different animals - there is info gathering on us by the government(s), and most of it with our permission, from the day we are born to the day we kick off this place.
I will say again what I did to someone the other day: that if you want your social security, medicare, medicade, service records, education records, and all the things the government stores in files, if you want that stuff to be absolutely safe with no possible way anyone with bad intentions could get at it, you'd have to write them all out on papyrus and bury them in random locations around the world so access would be difficult is not impossible. But that wouldn't be great for the SS checks coming out on time.