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In reply to the discussion: Hong Kong's Incredible Official Statement on Snowden's Departure [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)JDPriestly
Be afraid of the men who have the weapons to kill you - if you are on the top....
And I suspect the US government should be carefully about NSA, who should be their servants - not their masters - as in the old Soviet union, where the NKVD and then KGB was the sword of the party - and the defender of the nation - was made possible, by fearfully men who believed they needed someone to defend them selfs agings enemies abroad and inside the Union... As it was - the NKVD, and then the KGB was making them self master of the Soviet Union - sometimes in concert with the leaders - mostly against them - they could make you a leader - or make you a traitor who deserved to be killed - after torture....
What is happening in the US this days - is like looking at the blueprint for other regimes - like the regime of Stalin - or the regime of Hitler, or many other regimes, who used and use the security system to defend them self against enemies - true or just in their fantasy of the NSA.. The NSA have powers that even Berjia of the NKVD, or Himmler of the SS RHSA, SD and so one could just dream about in the days.... And even then, if it goes down the bad way - I doubt NSA would have any power to stop if. They might tell you that they have stooped many terrorist attack with all the spying on everyone - but in fact, they are not exactly showing any interest in protecting the US population do they with the killings of civilians by gun- nuts - or by bombing of places like in the Boston Marathon....
And I suspect they will have a lot of documents - to blackmail possible politic ans - documents that might be used to evelate them to great powers - or to ruin their life... If they do not play by the rules..
Hopefully the US do not need to learn it the same way the rest of the world have learned it - but I fear the US have to learn it the hard way - mostly because it looks like most americans believe they are not in any danger... You will ALWAYS be in danger - for been used by secrets services that is the reason most country's keep and eye on what they do - all the time, because you can not trust secrets services to mutch... You need oversight form civilian masters
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