I credited Snowden with being smart, although I questioned his choice of Hong Kong as a refuge. Now he appears to be brilliant. He is using Hong Kong as a base from which to reveal crime doing by USA individuals. Very good. We need official criminality exposed.
Yes, Hong Kong and USA have strong extradition treaties (subject to Beijing's pleasure) but as a humane polity Hong Kong will not extradite anyone subject to cruel and unusual punishment. Since Gitmo and the treatment of Bradley Manning are par for the course in the Soviet USA, there is no way Hong Kong will extradite Snowden. And China will delight in the USA being hoisted on its own petard.
How did we get such a collection of 3rd stringers in office? O! Yes, of course, election fraud in USA. Which will never be investigated because everyone in USA has a dossier that would ruin anyone who stands up to the powers that be.
One day one of the most dire abusers of civil rights and surveillance was in business, and the next day not. That country was East Germany. We could eliminate the NSA, FBI, CIA, ETC and experience the peace and prosperity the East Germans had thereafter.
But we'd have to be as alarmed at government wrongdoing as the people of Hong Kong, who yet again, take to the streets the instant their privileges are threatened.
The NSA has said they do not keep the phone records more than five years. The IRS makes us keep such records 7 years. Since they are being stored, why does the NSA need to store them too?
So they can do META analysis. Why not ask the Phone companies to do the META analysis and IF they find troubling patterns in the use of their property in violation of the contract of carriage, then they can share such patterns for law enforcement to use as a basis for a warrant for a look-see. Faster, cheaper, more secure. But Oh no, we have to do things that are inefficient, sneaky, wasteful and violate our security.
If you want to see what East Germany was like under a total surveillance state, here is a 2 hour instructional video. If you have nothing to hide, then there is no reason for the state to have a look. If they can look, state functionaries can and will abuse the information they have.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Yes, Hong Kong and USA have strong extradition treaties (subject to Beijing's pleasure) but as a humane polity Hong Kong will not extradite anyone subject to cruel and unusual punishment. Since Gitmo and the treatment of Bradley Manning are par for the course in the Soviet USA, there is no way Hong Kong will extradite Snowden. And China will delight in the USA being hoisted on its own petard.
How did we get such a collection of 3rd stringers in office? O! Yes, of course, election fraud in USA. Which will never be investigated because everyone in USA has a dossier that would ruin anyone who stands up to the powers that be.
One day one of the most dire abusers of civil rights and surveillance was in business, and the next day not. That country was East Germany. We could eliminate the NSA, FBI, CIA, ETC and experience the peace and prosperity the East Germans had thereafter.
But we'd have to be as alarmed at government wrongdoing as the people of Hong Kong, who yet again, take to the streets the instant their privileges are threatened.
The NSA has said they do not keep the phone records more than five years. The IRS makes us keep such records 7 years. Since they are being stored, why does the NSA need to store them too?
So they can do META analysis. Why not ask the Phone companies to do the META analysis and IF they find troubling patterns in the use of their property in violation of the contract of carriage, then they can share such patterns for law enforcement to use as a basis for a warrant for a look-see. Faster, cheaper, more secure. But Oh no, we have to do things that are inefficient, sneaky, wasteful and violate our security.
If you want to see what East Germany was like under a total surveillance state, here is a 2 hour instructional video. If you have nothing to hide, then there is no reason for the state to have a look. If they can look, state functionaries can and will abuse the information they have.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2013/06/david-edwards-former-east-german-secret.html
NSA is former East German Stasi dream come true.
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