'Obama putting Clapper In Charge Of NSA Commission That Reports Back To Clapper-Big FU America'

[JDPriestly]

99. Thank you. The question isn't whether we have "something to hide" or not, the question is

do certain groups and individuals in our government get access to knowledge about what specific Americans are doing, how they are voting, what they are saying, that the rest of us cannot reach if we wish to do so?

The question is whether a small clique have superior knowledge about our communications, about the communications of millions of people and can that knowledge be used to gain more power, to propagandize, to spread rumors, to tilt the playing field of opinion, information and knowledge in one direction or the other.

The surveillance is about acquiring and asserting and using power only available to very few, those few being the same people who control our military/industrial complex and our political parties. That combination could easily lead to a dictatorship.

I think that is where we are headed.