Total Surveillance: The Response to Snowden’s Leak Ignores the Reality of Political Repression

[woo me with science]

31. +10000 This government is already thumbing its nose at the people,

over and over and over again.

Vast majorities of Americans want to protect SS and Medicare. Both parties want to cut them. Americans overwhelmingly oppose austerity. Both parties shove it down our throats. Americans want to scale back military involvement. Our government bangs the drums on Syria and Iran and starts proxy drone wars all over the Middle East. Virtually nothing coming out of this government bears any resemblance whatsoever to what the people have said we want and need, for a very long time.

Secret trade deals. "Supercommittees." Closed door deals. Attacks on the press. Attacks on peaceful protesters. Dismantling of the Constitution. All under a common theme of profit for corporations.

And now a surveillance infrastructure whose capabilities dwarf that of any totalitarian state in history.

This may be our last chance to save ourselves. Thank you, Edward Snowden. Keep in mind that states that build surveillance infrastructures also build propaganda infrastructures. We will hear incessant reassurance that everything is all right.

It isn't.