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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDenouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough—We Need the Power to Stop It
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/10For more than a month, outrage has been profuse in response to news about NSA surveillance and other evidence that all three branches of the U.S. government are turning Uncle Sam into Big Brother.
Now what?
Continuing to expose and denounce the assaults on civil liberties is essential. So is supporting Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and other whistleblowerspast, present and future. But those vital efforts are far from sufficient.
For a moment, walk a mile in the iron-heeled shoes of the military-industrial-digital complex. Its leaders dont like clarity about what theyre doing, and they certainly dont like being exposed or denouncedbut right now the surveillance state is in no danger of losing what it needs to keep going: power.
The huge digi-tech firms and the government have become mutual tools for gaining humungous profits and tightening political control. The partnerships are deeply enmeshed in military and surveillance realms, whether cruise missiles and drones or vast metadata records and capacities to squirrel away trillions of emails.
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Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough—We Need the Power to Stop It (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2013
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)2. k&r for exposure. n/t
-Laelth
Octafish
(55,745 posts)3. We the People used to be the government.
Until We the People got trumped by Secret Government.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)4. I will oppose it by voting for the people who support it. Or something. nt.