Circa 1980 man newly married agent in Hong Kong and I were discussing where his kids would go to college and he said Beijing Da Xue. I was astonished. Not Harvard, Stanford, Oxford. He just laughed. "The world is changing."
I met with a mid-career professional in Hong Kong two or three years ago who was quite resentful his career had stalled. You see 15 years earlier with his newly minted degrees from the USA he fast-tracked the career ladder due to his USA degrees. The Bush administration criminality began to take its toll, and at first his USA medallions began to count for less and less, and now, were a liability. Under Obama, who is Bush 4 and 5 or 5 and 6, depending on how many Bushes you count, things are dire indeed.
This should come as no surprise:
Obama has said we only spy when we think we need to. Apparently we always need to, total information awareness and all that.
For the price of fun-time to-kill-the-boredom-listening-in on Indonesian plaintiffs, our spy network is costing we who actually produce something for a living incalculable harm. We might look to the law to curb this criminality, but, it is lawyers who are bringing it down on us.
As Watergate hearing chairman Sam Ervin noted, that scandal was brought to us by the American Bar Association, wall to wall lawyers, and no doubt NSA is lousy with lawyers. One small corrective would be to recognize what Immanuel Kant pointed out, and that is the USA system has a fatal flaw in allowing the conflict of interest of officers of the court (lawyers) to serve in the executive or legislative branch. Was Kant every right!
But at that time the "intelligence agencies" did not have something on ever politician and judge in which to destroy any given career if any given official ever attempted to do his job. election fraud assures that we experience less turnover in elections that the Soviet Union. This is why Clapper and Petraeus and Keith Alexander can continue untouchably, lie with impunity, and suffer zero consequences.
Their partners in crime are the Iowa farmers, Wall Street Bankers, Big Biz and housewives who all want an unending stream of free $#!+, and they think nothing of burning the people who bet their lives on America. Those people with their USA University medallions will speak hatred toward USA in order to advance their careers, if not to salvage their own careers. Enjoy your free $#!+ while it lasts.
We need to grant clemency for Snowden, or better yet whatever form of jury nullification may be appropriate, because no one can call this fun time sniffing in law process "national security."
What goes around comes around, and it is coming around. Truth commissions might lighten some of the blows coming.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
I met with a mid-career professional in Hong Kong two or three years ago who was quite resentful his career had stalled. You see 15 years earlier with his newly minted degrees from the USA he fast-tracked the career ladder due to his USA degrees. The Bush administration criminality began to take its toll, and at first his USA medallions began to count for less and less, and now, were a liability. Under Obama, who is Bush 4 and 5 or 5 and 6, depending on how many Bushes you count, things are dire indeed.
This should come as no surprise:
A top-secret document, obtained by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States. The disclosure offers a rare glimpse of a specific instance in which Americans were ensnared by the eavesdroppers, and is of particular interest because lawyers in the United States with clients overseas have expressed growing concern that their confidential communications could be compromised by such surveillance.
The government of Indonesia had retained the law firm for help in trade talks, according to the February 2013 document. It reports that the N.S.A.’s Australian counterpart, the Australian Signals Directorate, notified the agency that it was conducting surveillance of the talks, including communications between Indonesian officials and the American law firm, and offered to share the information.
Obama has said we only spy when we think we need to. Apparently we always need to, total information awareness and all that.
For the price of fun-time to-kill-the-boredom-listening-in on Indonesian plaintiffs, our spy network is costing we who actually produce something for a living incalculable harm. We might look to the law to curb this criminality, but, it is lawyers who are bringing it down on us.
As Watergate hearing chairman Sam Ervin noted, that scandal was brought to us by the American Bar Association, wall to wall lawyers, and no doubt NSA is lousy with lawyers. One small corrective would be to recognize what Immanuel Kant pointed out, and that is the USA system has a fatal flaw in allowing the conflict of interest of officers of the court (lawyers) to serve in the executive or legislative branch. Was Kant every right!
But at that time the "intelligence agencies" did not have something on ever politician and judge in which to destroy any given career if any given official ever attempted to do his job. election fraud assures that we experience less turnover in elections that the Soviet Union. This is why Clapper and Petraeus and Keith Alexander can continue untouchably, lie with impunity, and suffer zero consequences.
Their partners in crime are the Iowa farmers, Wall Street Bankers, Big Biz and housewives who all want an unending stream of free $#!+, and they think nothing of burning the people who bet their lives on America. Those people with their USA University medallions will speak hatred toward USA in order to advance their careers, if not to salvage their own careers. Enjoy your free $#!+ while it lasts.
We need to grant clemency for Snowden, or better yet whatever form of jury nullification may be appropriate, because no one can call this fun time sniffing in law process "national security."
What goes around comes around, and it is coming around. Truth commissions might lighten some of the blows coming.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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