QUOTES OF THE DAY

“There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me’.”
― Philip K. Dick

“The way things are supposed to work is that we’re supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that’s why they’re called public servants. They’re supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that’s why we’re called private individuals.”
― Glenn Greenwald

“Not enough people know or understand just how little freedom we have left.”
― Korban Blake

“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order […] and the like.”
― William O. Douglas, Points of Rebellion

“Every time I do an interview people ask similar questions, such as “What is the most significant story that you have revealed?” […] There really is only one overarching point that all of these stories have revealed, and that is–and I say this without the slightest bit of hyperbole or melodrama; it’s not metaphorical and it’s not figurative; it is literally true–that the goal of the NSA and it’s five eyes partners in the English speaking world–Canada, New Zealand, Australia and especially the UK–is to eliminate privacy globally, to ensure that there could be no human communications that occur electronically, that evades their surveillance net; they want to make sure that all forms of human communications by telephone or by Internet, and all online activities are collected, monitored, stored and analyzed by that agency and by their allies.

That means, to describe that is to describe a ubiquitous surveillance state; you don’t need hyperbole to make that claim, and you do not need to believe me when I say that that’s their goal. Document after document within the archive that Edward Snowden provided us declare that to be their goal. They are obsessed with searching out any small little premise of the planet where some form of communications might take place without they being able to invade it.”
― Glenn Greenwald

“The National Security Agency’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: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”
― Frank Church

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I believe that since the end of World War II, positive thinking has become the quasi-religion of industrial civilization, and the failure to maintain it has become tantamount to treason.” (p. 33) This almost totalitarian emphasis on happiness and positive thinking amounts to a system of enforced stupidity. To Baker, what matters is not happiness but joy and not positive thinking but meaning: “Happiness comes and goes, but meaning doesn’t. The truth, of course, is that we can find meaning in experiences that are anything but happy.” (For example, in war.)
Carolyn Baker’s CollapsingConsciously: Transformative Truths for Turbulent Times

MuckAbout

Me? I’m all for surveillance – the more the better. I’ll invite the drone in to check out under my bathroom sink to see what kind of toilet paper I use. The more information the better, I say. I’ll boggle their mind by letting them inventory my sweetie’s shoe closet. That’ll take a week.

As inefficient and broadly stupid as the Fed’s (including NSA, DIA, CIA, et al the alphabet )agencies are, the more information you dump in their laps, the less they will be able to do with it. They will spend all their time trying to store it, sort it, compare it, data mine it and will have no time or analyze whatever the hell it is they are trying to find much less do anything productive with it.

The problem will come, as it always does, when they fuck up, make a mistake and take down the wrong people at the wrong house in Bumfuck, GA, with a stinking SWAT team when who they’re after is really in a London suburb and has the same last name.

MA

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