The obituary
to freedom has been written, yet Americans distracted by the effluvium of
trivia offered by both mainstream and ‘social’ media are unaware that it has
been written and typeset.
Still another frightening example of
Orwellian mischief conducted by the NSA has come to light. Their TAO (Tailored
Access Operation) group does, among other devilish things, intercept computers
ordered online and detours them to facilities where various malware and spyware
are embedded at levels that undermine any encryption or other protective
measures the eventual owner may choose to install, before being repackaged and
delivered to the purchaser. It is my understanding that the spy embedded will
record the very keystrokes used to install encryption commands – making the
encryption an ineffectual locked door with a spare key held by the NSA. It has
been reported that this program has been in effect since 1997, well before the
increasingly suspect empire-incentive mysteries of 9/11 occurred.
This preemptive attack on privacy, so
intellectually similar to the atrocious criminal rationale of the Iraq invasion
and the insane Vietnam reasoning of the necessity “to destroy villages in order
to save them” cannot be justified as a measure to “preserve our freedom”. It is
a direct, calculated assault upon that freedom with the ultimate purpose to
surgically remove the communication or influence of individuals who may
question the government’s policies, motives, or economic favoritism/classism
and make it impossible for Government of the people, for the people, to be
challenged by any formation of a disaffected critical mass that can be called “the
people”.
Following as it does the revelations and
subsequent perjuries of NSA activity in the collection of ALL telephonic
communication – a UNIVERSAL search seeking crime instead of “probable cause”
warranting a search – and the new enunciation of the “patriotic” canard that
journalism which exposes illegal and unconstitutional activities of government
as “treason”, and the establishment of an additional standing army, Homeland
Security, joined with the increasingly militarized local police combined as a
force that can overwhelm any Second Amendment benefit the people are permitted
to fantasize as protection against encroachment of government upon the rights
the government deems inconvenient for the security and enlargement of the
Empire, it would in days of yore inspire a ‘committee of correspondence’ –at least!
But the exchange of private communication is too threatening to allow because
all private thoughts must now be vetted for compliance with jungle-capitalism,
jingoistic imperialism, and intellectually unfettered adoration of Israel.
What is amazing and sad is that our highly educated
representatives seem unaware that they were not elected to represent “government”
or capital, but rather in the course of acting as “government” their primary responsibility
is to represent “us” and assure our rights take primacy over the tempting
conveniences and illusions of power.
There can be no ‘legal’ justification for
the excesses of the “secret state”, and since none are offered we may as well
use the one remaining duty the “free press” elects to observe – and publicly
print the obituary.
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