Julie Bishop lashes Snowden on US visit

[JDPriestly]

14. The NSA apologists on DU repeat over and over that "they all do it" meaning the surveillance.

If so, then "they" must know that "they all do it," and that "they all know they all do it."

President Obama explained that because surveillance is so common, various electronic devices are not allowed in the White House situation room. That makes sense.

So if "they" all know that "they all do it," why is the fact of surveillance such a secret? Why doesn't the American government which probably has the greatest surveillance network and capacity in the world simply say that they are wiretapping and collecting metadat on everyone and everything they can?

From whom are they keeping it secret? Surely not from the terrorists. They would be the first to figure out that what they communicate electronically could or is getting them caught.

From people in other countries? Maybe.

But most likely, they are keeping this a secret from the people in their own countries. In the US, that is the American people. And why would they keep the fact that they listen in and keep track of all of our communications a secret?

Because they want to maintain the ILLUSION that we are free. The fact is that thanks to the surveillance we are not free.

In addition, they are collecting the content of all of our or most of our communications. That was stated in this press conference by the other NSA whistleblowers.

Here is the link to the website with that press conference. It is very interesting.

http://new.livestream.com/accuracy/nsa-rebuttal/videos/39824993

And that collection is arguably a violation not only of our human rights but of our very own American Constiution.

The NSA is in my opinion violating our rights, our guaranteed rights, and should stop.