Posted on 06/14/2013 4:19:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
In roughly a hundred days...the bulk of the American population has gone to distrust of the federal government....rather than trust. I don’t see anything being supported much...from immigration reform, to tax reform. Firing people....wont’ change that prospective either.
If there was any doubt left that the federal government was not our enemy...........
Snowden is a nobody. The real story is a massive domestic spying scandal and the utter stupidity that allows thousands of people like Snowden to have access along with unknown numbers of Chinese nationals with that same access.
This get Snowden crap is like bad soviet propaganda.
What it all comes down to is TRUST. As long as people trust in something, Government, patriotism, the dollar, etc. all is fine, but trust has an implicit factor in it, FIRST do no harm to those who trust in you to do the right thing.
Like ALL tools the NSA and their wide gathering of data is trusted not to harm the average citizen of the country. In return they are given willful ignorance and acceptance that the information so gathered will not be used to harm them capriciously. It’s meant to guard us from the Wolves that want to prey upon us.
But also like ALL tools it can be misused and harm the very people who trusted the tool to do only good things. And that’s where we are at now, many if not most people do NOT trust this government and fear that these tools are being used to not protect us from the wolves but to protect the wolves from us and to allow the wolves to prey upon us at their pleasure.
Swowden is a media squirrel. Look Squirrel!!!
Anyone that doesn’t thing Snowden was a good thing must be a government troll. I am far more afraid of this government than some supposed terrorist from wherever. Let’s just compare the firepower and influence. Everyday a new story breaks that further makes me ashamed to live in the usa and be a CITIZEN (not that that matters)
Sometimes we have but one chance to speak up for right. The warnings were there when Bush 2 continued down this slide. It is a terrible burden to carry for the person who has the information Snowden had. I believe his intentions were only honorable and done with every good intention.
“These are not the droids you are looking for, now move along.”
That one movie line is so apropos to the entire litany of scandals we are being barraged with. BENGHAZI is ground zero folks. I would even wager that Snowden is another plant just like Manning, seeing he was at CIA before going over to NSA. People like this would have never gotten close to a comm center much less known where it was when I was a part of the intelligence apparatus. They are the droids, we must endeavor to find out who the droid master are.
How are we supposed to know when that abuse has occurred?
There are some other issues about the NSA and alphabet agencies that need to be addressed as well. The fact that this one company that Snowden worked for made some $6 billion off the American taxpayers and has many Chinese nationals working for them that have the same access as Snowden. There are hundreds of companies doing the same all at taxpayer expense.
The next act in this charade is the Unbelievably Large Terror Event(s), in which the cry for government to ‘do something’ drown out any analysis of ‘how the hell did this happen?’.
That’s when the IRS and NSA converge, and the circle is complete.
The only question is... how long will it take?
In other words, this hack is perfectly fine with living in a neo-stasi police state but only if the thug ruling it has an R next to his name.
There are merits to both sides of that argument but the real unanswered and un pursued question is : why did Snowden get access to that information in the first place?”
Why did a GED level IT specialist have a ‘need-to-know’ to get access to it anyway?
That is the problem congress should be fixing first.
NSA is far less of a threat than the IRS.
Why did Snowden think he had access to ALL the information ~ .... ~ little evidence that he did. Lots of claims but where’s the data?
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