3 Shocking Revelations from NSA's Most Terrifying Program Yet

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129. Not one defender of these surveillance programs

has ever acknowledged the context of these revelations in relation to increasing police brutality, profiling peace and environmental activists, OWS demonstrators and medical marijuana users.

The issue of surveillance and privacy cannot be discussed myopically, as if it is happening in a vacuum. We are living in very harsh social times, with unprecedented numbers of incarceration for non violent crimes, political prisoners, and homeless people being treated like criminals.

To look at surveillance as something harmless is to turn a blind eye toward very disturbing social trends that IN COMBINATION point toward further abuse of power.

If we have the ability to create a system that can erase privacy, we CERTAINLY have the ability to create a more private system and laws to assure civil rights---all that is missing is the WILL to do this!! Gods if we can fly to the moon we can create a better virtual infrastructure.