March 19, 201412 yr Sure, it was just a novel, but its author probably never envisioned the NSA. The more we learn about them, the less I feel that America has a future as a free country. And now this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-surveillance-program-reaches-into-the-past-to-retrieve-replay-phone-calls/2014/03/18/226d2646-ade9-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html
March 19, 201412 yr Active Members I wonder if Clapper still has that call I made to Domino's a few months back. I could swear they offered me a free order of breadsticks.
March 19, 201412 yr Active Members The NSA is just one of the two prongs of this massive privacy violation attack. It gets more attention because it is supposed to be clandestine and does have potential dire political consequences. But then dire commercial consequences can affect personal lives as well as the public cultural structure. Think Google. 1984 may not be too far away <-- me, alarmist. They will come take me away... no doubt by a clandestine Google subsidiary shrouded in social media cloak.
March 19, 201412 yr Active Members This broken record has been lamenting our loss of freedoms for many years and the only change is that it has gotten worse. Term limits and sunset laws will at least get a change of crooks periodically and require them to go on the public record when they lie and cheat. Best regards, RA1
March 21, 201412 yr Term limits and sunset laws serve to keep good people out of office- people with experience who have learned how to deal with the entrenched bureaucrats who really run things. Bureaucrats have lifetime jobs, politician's don't. That wouldn't be so bad if they were trustworthy.
March 21, 201412 yr Active Members So we need term limits for bureaucrats, at least the management ones? Best regards, RA1
March 21, 201412 yr Possibly. There is something about people with job security who get entrenched in a position and learn to pull the right levers that the politicians have no idea even exist. That's power!
March 21, 201412 yr US tech companies are reportedly losing business, especially Microsoft, because of NSA spying, so they are relocating to foreign countries to assure thier customers that the NSA can't spy on them. This is as I understand the NY Times article liked below to be saying. But, hasn't the NSA demonstrated that national boundaries are no impediment to them? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/business/fallout-from-snowden-hurting-bottom-line-of-tech-companies.html?hp
March 21, 201412 yr Active Members Doesn't the NSA claim they are only spying on foreigners? And, of course, any foreigner who talks to a US citizen. Best regards, RA1
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