The Digital Surveillance State: Vast, Secret, and Dangerous
by Glenn Greenwald
CATO-Unbound.com
It is unsurprising that the 9/11 attack fostered a massive expansion of America’s already sprawling Surveillance State. But what is surprising, or at least far less understandable, is that this growth shows no signs of abating even as we approach almost a full decade of emotional and temporal distance from that event. The spate of knee-jerk legislative expansions in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 trauma — the USA-PATRIOT Act — has actually been exceeded by the expansions of the last several years — first secretly and lawlessly by the Bush administration, and then legislatively and out in the open once Democrats took over control of the Congress in 2006. Simply put, there is no surveillance power too intrusive or unaccountable for our political class provided the word “terrorism” is invoked to “justify” those powers.
The More-Surveillance-Is-Always-Better Mindset
Illustrating this More-Surveillance-is-Always-Better mindset is what happened after The New York Times revealed in December, 2005 that the Bush administration had ordered the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on American citizens without the warrants required by law and without any external oversight at all. Despite the fact that the 30-year-old FISA law made every such act of warrantless eavesdropping a felony, “punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both,” and despite the fact that all three federal judges who ruled on the program’s legality concluded that it was illegal, there was no accountability of any kind. The opposite is true: the telecom corporations which enabled and participated in this lawbreaking were immunized by a 2008 law supported by Barack Obama and enacted by the Democratic Congress. And that same Congress twice legalized the bulk of the warrantless eavesdropping powers which The New York Times had exposed: first with the 2007 Protect America Act, and then with the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, which, for good measure, even added new warrantless surveillance authorities.
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Dear Paul Martin
YOU THINK THEY ARE READING YOUR MIND WHEN IT IS DONE BY WELL KNOWN TO ENT SPECIALISTS TRICK METHODS.
The way they read your mind is as follows:
1) Get drunk/micky-finned
2) Evil state scum carry you out to a van where they implant nanoscopic quasi wifi webcams in the cornea of your eye.
3) Evil state scum use injection or endoscopic means via the Eustachian tube to implant receiver/transmitter in the middle ear
4)Linked together by 3G Mobile phone technology
5)The device in the middle ear is used to transmit low frequency sounds through the mastoid bone by-passing the normal cochlear means of sound to mind means. Because it does not go through the cochlear, it appears that you are ‘thinking ‘ that transmission
6) The evil state scum then ‘say’ what you appeared to be thinking.
7) It appears that they are reading your mind, when in fact the evil hell-bound scum are just repeating what they had already transmitted via low frequency sound
through your mastoid bone,
IT IS STEALING YOUR VERY SOUL.
I KNOW BECAUSE IT HAS/IS HAPPENING TO ME.
YOU DO NOT KNOW WHETHER WHAT YOU ARE THINKING IS ‘YOURSELF’ OR THOSE EVIL STATE SCUM!
If anyone needs further details or it has happened to you and you do not know how, this is how its done, all ‘smoke and mirrors’
Yours truthfully
Pierre Iwan Goj
White Cliffs of Dover
01304 853615 / 07719 999319