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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI see you with my little eye in the sky
Ever get that feeling someone is staring at you?
http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/spies/maps/all-seeing-eyes
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I see you with my little eye in the sky (Original Post)
packman
Feb 2016
OP
I love Goldman Sachs. Carlyle Group, too! Great people. Keepin' us safe 'n' stuff.
Octafish
Feb 2016
#2
We owe a big thanks to the NSA for helping Domestic Law Enforcment surveil and arrest pot smokers!
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#3
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)1. Yes!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)2. I love Goldman Sachs. Carlyle Group, too! Great people. Keepin' us safe 'n' stuff.
Frank Church warned us about the NSA and CIA and what they could do if their technology was turned on the American people, back in 1975:
That 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 doesnt matter. There would be no place to hide. If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.
I dont want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
-- Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) FDR New Deal, Liberal, Progressive, World War II combat veteran. A brave man, the NSA was turned on him. Coincidentally, of course, he narrowly lost re-election a few years later.
Of course, today things are a lot more, em, secure.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)3. We owe a big thanks to the NSA for helping Domestic Law Enforcment surveil and arrest pot smokers!