Police State

NSA refuses to release Snowden emails, probably because they would show Snowden raised flags about illegal spying that were ignored.

Government has no problem using inconsistency to oppress people.

"There’s an odd thing about this. We are constantly told that our vast, sour-faced and costly ‘security’ services, and various ‘British FBIs’ and ‘British KGBs’ are fully on top of the terror threat, and ceaselessly halting plots.

How is it then that they claim not to know if harmless aunties from Cleethorpes or Worthing are planning to manufacture an airborne bomb with the ingredients of a make-up bag?

Just in case such a person is a jihadi sleeper agent, she, and thousands of other innocents, must be treated as criminal suspects. 

Like newly registered convicts, they must stand in humble queues, meek before arbitrary power."

You can't reason with government.

Great quote:

"This penetrating article  on NSA whistle blower William Binney proves Lew Rockwell’s powerful adage: “Every government would be a totalitarian system if they could get away with it.”"

No kidding. Binny claims NSA records at least 80 percent of all audio calls, not just metadata as NSA claims.

"“At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US”, Binney said. “This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.”"

I'm sure it records every call it can of Americans too.

Given the overwhelming effort prosecutors, the FBI, police, Feds and press has put into convicting the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, I'm surprised 42 percent claim to be unsure of his guilt. The prosecutor must be very unhappy to face a jury with members who might not have been convinced before the trial.

"And from the beginning, law-enforcement along with the vast majority of the media have implied that the evidence against Tsarnaev is so airtight, and that his guilt is so self-evident, that it’s bordering on the absurd to assert some things in the official version may not be exactly as we’ve been told."

The government doesn't want people to waste time with a trial.

"In the absence so far of hard evidence implicating the brothers as the sole perpetrators, many Bostonians appear to have kept an open mind.
In this, they may have been influenced by their familiarity with the FBI’s history of covering up embarrassing relationships to bad guys, like the one local agents had with the murderous Boston mobster Whitey Bulger—not to mention the Bureau’s less-than-stellar record of transparency regarding major events like 9/11. And that doesn’t even take into account some of the geopolitical and national security implications swirling around the case.
In other words—many reasonable doubts still exist."

Some are listed.

DHS, SWAT teams and a blackhawk helicopter swarm tiny school for no reason.

"Homeland Security agents, backed by police SWAT teams, armored vehicles and a Black Hawk helicopter staged a bizarre unannounced show of force in front of a school in a small Illinois town, scenes which will exacerbate concerns about the increasing militarization of U.S. law enforcement."

Not cool.

Amazon provides cloud service to CIA and intelligence agencies so they can better spy on us. So much for Amazon being benevolent.