Chomsky: Fight back against NSA spying or be 'complicit'

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21. Not only is it obvious to everyone, it is also...

... useful to everyone. The ability to keep secretes within a group or organization protects that group from others and gives them an advantage over others - creates a power differential.

Families keep secretes.

Companies keep trade secretes. And try to learn the secretes of other companies.

Countries, of course, keep secretes and attempt to learn those of other countries.

All to the benefit of the people of the group, organization, company or country.

“If we do not expose the plea of security and separate the parts that are valid from the parts that are not valid, then we are complicit.”

Note that Chomsky believes that there are VALID reasons for secrecy in support of security.