Police State

Former NSA director explains why Americans should be scared the government collects their metadata.

"We kill people based on metadata."

That's scary enough for me.

"On May 7, the House Judiciary Committee voted 32-0 to adopt an amended form of the USA Freedom Act, a bill to rein in NSA spying on Americans, initially proposed by Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy and Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner. On May 8, the House Intelligence Committee, which has until now opposed any real reform of the NSA, also unanimously approved the same bill. And the Obama administration has welcomed the development. For some, no doubt, the very fact that this bill has attracted such broad bipartisan approval will be grounds for suspicion."

Exactly. This bill changes nothing, or it wouldn't pass. Maybe the more important fact is NSA must support this bill, or it would blackmail representatives to vote against it.

The NSA is still out to get you.

""Above all, NSA feels a sense of responsibility," she told interviewer Vago Muradian.  She sounded earnest and everything about her look and gestures suggested penitence.  She talked of understanding and appreciating people’s "concerns" and skated to the very brink of apology more than once.  Was she there to ask for forgiveness?  To admit the NSA had violated the public trust?  To offer up the first evidence of soul-searching at an agency that has, for years, spied upon the most intimate communications of untold numbers of people?
In a word: no."

Of course not.

The market is rapidly adapting to promote privacy in the face of ubiquitous surveillance, including this paper mask.

Protesters ride ATVs down county road claimed by BLM in act of civil disobedience.