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In reply to the discussion: Snowden says he could see what I do on the web. [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)against a corporation, or maybe picket a military installation who is involved with drones or perhaps your local Fox News station goes too far and you join a group picketing their connections....then what you purchase, whom you e-mail, where you go and what you purchase and do would be of huge interest to our NSA Military Contractors who've gotten a list to watch and your name is on it. Maybe your friends and relatives start to be intercepted on Face Book sharing their kids photos or artwork. Maybe you went to the local Unitarian Church who shows Anti-War Documentaries every Thursday night and you've been photographed going there and your fellow Church goers are brought in to be tracked because of their association with you and their attendance.
Maybe your computer at work and home is hacked so that all your contacts get put on a list to be watched. Maybe you did gardening over the weekend and bought some fertilizer and other common things at the Hardware Store and some component could be used to make some crude weapon or maybe you even are power washing your deck and bought a solution which could be used to put in bottles and thrown at someone at your next "Peace Protest." They have records of all you purchased at Ace Hardware, Home Depot or your local Grocery Store that could be seen as possible purchases to produce crude weapons.
This is how this could go. And, it's not new. And you are old enough to remember Senator Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover and the Tuskegee Experiments and other such great examples of how innocent our Government can be when there are folks there who are intent on going to far for their ideology or suspicions and have folks willing to support them.