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In reply to the discussion: Please check in if you oppose the massive surveillance being conducted on American citizens [View all]RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)However, I wasn't the least bit surprised by this news, and I find some of the outrage to be amusing.
Really? People are shocked to find out this is happening?
Suckers.
And I also don't really know what we can do about this.
I feel like the only real way something as big and entrenched as the surveillance state gets dismantled would be:
A- after getting our asses totally kicked in World War 3, or
B- after an economic meltdown to make 2008 look like boom times.
I don't like either alternative.
And it's not going to go away simply because we write a letter to our congresscritters.
I live within walking distance of the WTC/Ground Zero, and I know that my city still has a big target painted on its back. There are Yemeni shop owners in my neighborhood, and I'm reasonably sure that some of them send money back home, and some of that money eventually makes its way to "the bad guys."
However, for some fairly low-level employee of some private company contracted by government spooks to have access to anything about me at all... is totally ridiculous, and it make me want to say bomb jihad ricin death to america in every single communication, just to fuck with them.