PRIZM and phone tapping
we have lost part of our freedom to the police state and the bill of rights is in decline
What more could the terrorists have wanted, our hollowed out democracy has given it to them.
terrorism is the most asymetrical of guerilla wars, there were only two chechnyan guys in boston, they killed two people and maimed a number of others, and the police state won. freedom always loses.
do we want terrorists caught, sure, like any other serial or mass killer, we have investigators who can do that very well, and some who just find a patsy to pin it on because they are incompetent or conspiratorial, think of richard jewel or lee oswald,
Should the entire population be treated as suspects to prevent what are in fact tiny attacks? you are in much greater danger of injury or death crossing the street.
Is opaque govenment ever a democracy? who owns my harddrive whos gonna pay rent for all those cookies that I never had the option of refusing, surveilance used to be expensive difficult and uncommon, now its lucrative, easy and ubiquitous. we are told we have to accept this.
If its ok to record all phone calls, and if its possible, it will be done in secret, and we will be told by the masked people behind the curtain to trust them.
I do not trust them to preserve the bill of rights, the supreme court has already eliminated the 8th and 9th and tenth amendment.
Jon Oliver was onto something when he suggested the gun phone, if its ok to tap all phone calls but not ok to register guns, we just need phones that shoot bullets to prevent being routinely recorded.
Terrorism can only achieve small results by its attacks, there are only a very few terrorists, their object is to permanently change the society they attack for the worse. they have won. with help from media, politicians and the police state.