GCHQ(NSA) tap fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications

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39. The claim is not and has never been that

The accurate claim is that these old stories are only now being pushed by the M$M to damage the current President. These stories have, prior to this time, never received such sustained and neurotic coverage. This drive to damage the President at any cost are being assisted by three classes of left wingers.

The first are the inattentive chicken littles who seem never to have looked at any story about such monitoring before now; this despite the fact that this monitoring has been an open secret for years. These are also the ones who seem to have no real idea about how the internet, or cell phone systems, work.

The second are the outrage junkies, who need their fix of moral superiority. They will explain at length how no other President has ever been as deceptive, unconstitutional or controlling as the current one, and it matters not if that President is a Democrat or a Republican.

The third and most damaging class are the knee-jerk revolutionaries; these do not desire a President who undermines what they see as the inevitable apocalypse of total corporate control, or Randian Social Darwinism or Plutonomy or whatever else they are now calling it this week. Their aims are:

a) to be proven right in their dire prophecies;
b) to see a collapse of the centre left; and
c) to see the socialist revolution the believe is "inevitable".

To this end they will stir up as much trouble as possible to damage both the President and the Democratic party