Tonight's news in the Washington Post is important. Actually, I don't think that I have done that justice.
THE END OF CIVIL LIBERTIES IS HERE!!!
The Washington Post article released just about an hour ago discloses the existence of a government program called Prism. Prism is way, way beyond the phone surveillance through Verizon records disclosed this morning. That program accumulated for each number in the country data on who was called and how long the call lasted. To get content, another court order was required. Prism, however, collects email, video, pictures, documents and audio from seven different internet companies. Prism collects content, not just connections.
Let's make this concrete. Do you have a Gmail account? If so, the feds have a copy of every email that you send or receive. Do you use Skype? If so, the feds have recorded every conversation that you have had. Do you use Facebook? Is so, the feds have everything you ever posted, whether or not you made it public or deleted it later. That picture that you later decided you better not leave on Facebook -- it's gone, but the feds still have it. Did you tweet a picture to a special friend (like Anthony Weiner did)? The feds have it.
The phone program was overkill and abhorrent as I wrote about this morning. It is child's play, however, compared to the real invasion by the Obama administration through Prism.
Let's make this more concrete again. This post that I am writing is being monitored through Prism as I write it since my blog is on a Google server. If I were to write about a terrorist attack, the computer will flag it. In fact, even that last sentence will probably make an alarm go off somewhere. That, in turn, may lead to further "investigation" of me by the feds. And it will all be because I am just commenting about the Prism program.
So here's the question: would you like to be able to communicate with friends by email or Skype or some such system without having the government listening in? Too bad. In Obama's America, you cannot have that.
President Obama ran for office promising to end unnecessary surveillance. It was a promise he repeated loudly and often. Instead of ending surveillance, however, he installed the full foundation for an American police state. In totalitarian societies like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, people were afraid to speak to each other because the government had spies everywhere. Do we want America to go down that road? If we are fighting to preserve our freedom and our way of life, do we want to sacrifice our freedom and our way of life in that cause? I don't think so.
THE END OF CIVIL LIBERTIES IS HERE!!!
The Washington Post article released just about an hour ago discloses the existence of a government program called Prism. Prism is way, way beyond the phone surveillance through Verizon records disclosed this morning. That program accumulated for each number in the country data on who was called and how long the call lasted. To get content, another court order was required. Prism, however, collects email, video, pictures, documents and audio from seven different internet companies. Prism collects content, not just connections.
Let's make this concrete. Do you have a Gmail account? If so, the feds have a copy of every email that you send or receive. Do you use Skype? If so, the feds have recorded every conversation that you have had. Do you use Facebook? Is so, the feds have everything you ever posted, whether or not you made it public or deleted it later. That picture that you later decided you better not leave on Facebook -- it's gone, but the feds still have it. Did you tweet a picture to a special friend (like Anthony Weiner did)? The feds have it.
The phone program was overkill and abhorrent as I wrote about this morning. It is child's play, however, compared to the real invasion by the Obama administration through Prism.
Let's make this more concrete again. This post that I am writing is being monitored through Prism as I write it since my blog is on a Google server. If I were to write about a terrorist attack, the computer will flag it. In fact, even that last sentence will probably make an alarm go off somewhere. That, in turn, may lead to further "investigation" of me by the feds. And it will all be because I am just commenting about the Prism program.
So here's the question: would you like to be able to communicate with friends by email or Skype or some such system without having the government listening in? Too bad. In Obama's America, you cannot have that.
President Obama ran for office promising to end unnecessary surveillance. It was a promise he repeated loudly and often. Instead of ending surveillance, however, he installed the full foundation for an American police state. In totalitarian societies like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, people were afraid to speak to each other because the government had spies everywhere. Do we want America to go down that road? If we are fighting to preserve our freedom and our way of life, do we want to sacrifice our freedom and our way of life in that cause? I don't think so.
THIS CANNOT BE IGNORED, NOT NOW, NOT EVER!!!
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