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"A
free society cherishes nonconformity.
It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric,
have come many of the great ideas."
-- Henry Steele Commager
(1902-1998) Historian and author
It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric,
have come many of the great ideas."
-- Henry Steele Commager
(1902-1998) Historian and author
No one is immune from government
lies…
Just remember it is always about
money, power and control.
“We know where you are. We know where you’ve
been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”—former
Google CEO Eric Schmidt
A little more than a year ago, Director of
National Intelligence James Clapper testified before Congress (an august batch
of liars) inquiring if the NSA was indiscriminately spying on Americans without
a warrant, without suspicion.
Of course, Clapper lied about it and denied this was
taking place. But since when does a
government agency care what Congress or the American people think. If that were the case, AG Holder would be out
of office and dozens lifelong Congress critters would be put out the pasture.
Our government has indeed become an Orwellian nightmare
and ironically, even uses the same terminology such as ‘Homeland Security.”
What would happen if the most powerful technology company
in the world and the largest clandestine spying agency in the world joined
forces?
No need to wonder. Just look around you. It’s happened
already. Thanks to an insidious partnership between Google and the National
Security Agency (NSA) that grows more invasive and more subtle with every
passing day, “we the people” have become little more than data consumer
commodities to be bought, sold and paid for over and over again.
With every
smartphone we buy, every GPS device we install, every Twitter, Facebook, and
Google account we open, every frequent buyer card we use for purchases—whether
at the grocer’s, the yogurt shop, the airlines or the department store, and
every credit and debit card we use to pay for our transactions, we’re helping
Corporate America build a dossier for its government counterparts on who we
know, what we think, how we spend our money, and how we spend our time.
What’s worse,
this for-profit surveillance scheme, far larger than anything the NSA could
capture just by tapping into our phone calls, is made possible by our consumer
dollars and our cooperation. All those disclaimers you scroll though without
reading them, the ones written in minute font, only to quickly click on the
“Agree” button at the end so you can get to the next step—downloading software,
opening up a social media account, adding a new app to your phone or computer:
those signify your written consent to having your activities monitored,
recorded and shared.
“The Google services and apps that we interact with on a
daily basis aren’t the company’s main product: They are the harvesting machines
that dig up and process the stuff that Google really sells: for-profit
intelligence.”—Journalist Yasha Levine
It’s not just
the surveillance you consent to that’s being shared with the government, however.
It’s the very technology you happily and unquestioningly use which is being
hardwired to give the government easy access to your activities.
In this way,
Congress can pass all the legislation it wants—it will have no real effect on
the NSA’s activities—because the NSA no longer needs to dirty its hands by
spying on Americans’ phone, email and internet activities, and the government
can absolve itself of any direct wrongdoing. They can go straight to the
source, as evidenced by a Freedom of Information Act request detailing the
close relationship between Google higher-ups Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin and
NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander. With Google in its hip pocket, the NSA can
just bypass any legislative restrictions dreamed up to appease the electorate
and buy their way into a surveillance state.
The government’s
motives aren’t too difficult to understand—money,
power, control—but what do corporate giants like Google stand to gain from
colluding with Big Brother? Money, power, control. As privacy and security
expert Bruce Schneier observed, “The main focus of massive Internet companies
and government agencies both still largely align: to keep us all under constant
surveillance. When they bicker, it’s mostly role-playing designed to keep us
blasé about what’s really going on.”
For more information, visit John Whitehead’s website at www.rutherford.org
Freedom
From Choice
Freedomfest - Las Vegas - July 9-12. Freedomfest is probably the largest conference on freedom in the world. Also, at Freedomfest, they will be screening the first public airing of "Freedom From Choice" a film on the state of the US tyranny today with appearances by Peter Schiff, G. Edward Griffin, and many more.
Here is the official trailer.
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