I've been watching and listening. Have you been watching and listening? Yes, the news has been all over German Chancellor Merkel's objection to the NSA's spying on her personal cell phone but there has been virtually no mention of any continuing U.S. public objection to NSA spying here and that is even more disturbing in face of the fact that there was a major protest in Washington D.C. this Saturday against NSA mass surveillance(essentially wiretapping) of all our phone calls, e-mails and communications,ie, spying on us. The rally against all this that brought out thousands in protest was held at the U.S. Capitol but did you hear about it on any major media outlets? Was anyone interviewed from the rally such as Rep. Justin Amash, that brought the bill before congress to curtail the NSA of which almost passed, as if it was important? "Yea, keep it down, keep it muffled, keep it from stirring up in the public discourse again". A historic protest in D.C. for all practical purposes censored.
In fact not only did the media censor out virtually any mention of the rally or our outrage over domestic spying but it turned next to play public relations department for the NSA and the government. The major media censors the rally then turns around and advocates for the NSA. Were you watching? Were you listening? Did you see the discussion/debate programming on T.V. Saturday or Sunday? Neither of the Sunday morning news magazines even mentioned the rally against mass surveillance or the thousands that were there.
What did they do instead? They virtually lobbied and advocated for NSA spying.
>Instead of having anyone from the rally on "This Week with George Stephanopulous" they had of all people, Dick Cheney the prime enabler of our mass surveillance network and architect of the lies and deception leading into Irag.
>Then Meet The Press has no one from the rally or any mention of it but instead has Rep. Peter King, the well known outspoken supporter of the NSA, going on and on about how bad he thinks Edward Snowden is and how bad he thinks we need mass surveillance defending it with every breath.
>60 minutes has no mention of the thousands that rallied in Washington but instead has the former deputy director of the CIA on demonizing Snowden as the worst traitor and praising the NSA. Yes that's right. 60 minutes has three 20 minute segments and one of those is devoted entirely to supporting the NSA and dissing Snowden with no argument from the other side.
>Google mentioned the rally in their news section at times Saturday morning but even they replaced it with the story that for the first time our justice department revealed they notified a criminal defendant that evidence being used against him came from a warrantless wiretap. For the first time on what day? The day of the biggest rally against mass surveillance by the NSA.
>Even lesser known T.V. news discussion programming could hardly even muster up anything sounding negative toward NSA domestic spying and of course no mention of a rally against mass surveillance whether it was Washington Week, Inside Washington or The McLaughlin Group. Yes, this was the weekend of the biggest rally yet against NSA mass surveillance in Washington D.C. at the U.S. capitol.
So you don't think the major media is running blocker for the NSA runningback? The media would have you think the only people left objecting to NSA spying are a few foreign leaders as if the American people are all on board with domestic spying now.
Yea, the weekend of the biggest rally against NSA mass surveillance and the major media outlets not only practically black it out but go full throttle putting up arguments for mass surveillance and lot's of demonization of Edward Snowden.
It said it before but I will say it again. If our media have anything left to learn and utilize from Orwell's 1984 I would like to know what it is. Orwell's in our face but do you see Orwell at all.
What you better learn is how to wise-up to it and counteract it.
I don't really believe in any kind of plot or conspiracy like various illuminati nonsense but I believe the government/corporate establishment believe they can set up this surveillence network and get away with it without any negative net effect meaning future turnkey tyranny. I very much doubt their foresight and long-term vision as was shown lacking in the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008. I also believe they believe that a collateral benefit of spying on everyone will yield a world of thwarted crime meaning, in the shortsighted view, a world of safety and security from threats and violence to material things, especially gated community persons and a certainty in the marketplace and I think to the degree this is money driven it is also short of wisdom and foresight. Very short of wisdom and foresight.
Are we being manipulated by fear or are our leaders responding responsibly?
I truly believe the threat from terrorists is easily dwarfed by the potential threat of the tentacles of totalitarian control stretching around us. We seem to think we can control what so many in high places have warned us about before and that is what I find very disturbing.
"The NSA’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything. [...] There would be no place to hide."--Sen. Frank Church - 1975
Wisdom and foresight, those are the keywords.
In fact not only did the media censor out virtually any mention of the rally or our outrage over domestic spying but it turned next to play public relations department for the NSA and the government. The major media censors the rally then turns around and advocates for the NSA. Were you watching? Were you listening? Did you see the discussion/debate programming on T.V. Saturday or Sunday? Neither of the Sunday morning news magazines even mentioned the rally against mass surveillance or the thousands that were there.
What did they do instead? They virtually lobbied and advocated for NSA spying.
>Instead of having anyone from the rally on "This Week with George Stephanopulous" they had of all people, Dick Cheney the prime enabler of our mass surveillance network and architect of the lies and deception leading into Irag.
>Then Meet The Press has no one from the rally or any mention of it but instead has Rep. Peter King, the well known outspoken supporter of the NSA, going on and on about how bad he thinks Edward Snowden is and how bad he thinks we need mass surveillance defending it with every breath.
>60 minutes has no mention of the thousands that rallied in Washington but instead has the former deputy director of the CIA on demonizing Snowden as the worst traitor and praising the NSA. Yes that's right. 60 minutes has three 20 minute segments and one of those is devoted entirely to supporting the NSA and dissing Snowden with no argument from the other side.
>Google mentioned the rally in their news section at times Saturday morning but even they replaced it with the story that for the first time our justice department revealed they notified a criminal defendant that evidence being used against him came from a warrantless wiretap. For the first time on what day? The day of the biggest rally against mass surveillance by the NSA.
>Even lesser known T.V. news discussion programming could hardly even muster up anything sounding negative toward NSA domestic spying and of course no mention of a rally against mass surveillance whether it was Washington Week, Inside Washington or The McLaughlin Group. Yes, this was the weekend of the biggest rally yet against NSA mass surveillance in Washington D.C. at the U.S. capitol.
So you don't think the major media is running blocker for the NSA runningback? The media would have you think the only people left objecting to NSA spying are a few foreign leaders as if the American people are all on board with domestic spying now.
Yea, the weekend of the biggest rally against NSA mass surveillance and the major media outlets not only practically black it out but go full throttle putting up arguments for mass surveillance and lot's of demonization of Edward Snowden.
It said it before but I will say it again. If our media have anything left to learn and utilize from Orwell's 1984 I would like to know what it is. Orwell's in our face but do you see Orwell at all.
What you better learn is how to wise-up to it and counteract it.
Democracy is not something you have it is something you do, if you don't do it you don't have it.
I don't really believe in any kind of plot or conspiracy like various illuminati nonsense but I believe the government/corporate establishment believe they can set up this surveillence network and get away with it without any negative net effect meaning future turnkey tyranny. I very much doubt their foresight and long-term vision as was shown lacking in the run-up to the financial crisis of 2008. I also believe they believe that a collateral benefit of spying on everyone will yield a world of thwarted crime meaning, in the shortsighted view, a world of safety and security from threats and violence to material things, especially gated community persons and a certainty in the marketplace and I think to the degree this is money driven it is also short of wisdom and foresight. Very short of wisdom and foresight.
Are we being manipulated by fear or are our leaders responding responsibly?
I truly believe the threat from terrorists is easily dwarfed by the potential threat of the tentacles of totalitarian control stretching around us. We seem to think we can control what so many in high places have warned us about before and that is what I find very disturbing.
"The NSA’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything. [...] There would be no place to hide."--Sen. Frank Church - 1975
Wisdom and foresight, those are the keywords.
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