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Study: NSA monitors virtually all communications in U.S.


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2014 Aug 7, 11:38pm   12,784 views  65 comments

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Senators want to end its dragnet collection of data on Americans •  This is a debate about Americans fundamental relationship with their government Perhaps a whispered conversation between two people might still be private in the U.S., but little else not even kids playing Angry Birds -- escapes the monitors at the National Security Agency, according to both a new report from a private data firm and a prominent U.S. Senator.

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47   Dan8267   2014 Aug 8, 11:17am  

Strategist says

Really? Most Americans would disagree.

You pulled that statistic out of your ass?


http://www.11alive.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/27/snowden-interview-nbc/9650925/

66% to 34%, the exact same ratio as sane people to batshit crazy conservatives.

48   Strategist   2014 Aug 8, 11:18am  

Heraclitusstudent says

Strategist says

Why don't we save the 30,000 starving children and go after the terrorists? If we do nothing about 911 we will end up with a 911 ever month.

Sorry what did attacking Iraq do to prevent the next 911 ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

We screwed up in Iraq. 911 made us angry and trigger happy which resulted in us making mistakes. Mistakes happen....what can we do?

Heraclitusstudent says

In fact ISIS wouldn't even be there today, if GW Bush didn't have the bright idea to remove a secular dictator that was keeping things in place, at the cost of $trillions and many broken lives. Nice results indeed!

ISIS is there because of Islam, not Bush. Can we place blame appropriately? Thanks.

49   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Aug 8, 11:24am  

Strategist says

We screwed up in Iraq. 911 made us angry and trigger happy which resulted in us making mistakes. Mistakes happen....what can we do?

No, sorry. You can't say "Ooops sorry, my bad". It's waaaay too easy.
It's not like you just bumped into an old lady in the subway.
You had to think about it before hand. Just like NSA.

50   Strategist   2014 Aug 8, 11:24am  

Dan8267 says

66% to 34%, the exact same ratio as sane people to batshit crazy conservatives.

I'm a bat shit crazy liberal leaning independent.
This is all bullshit liberal media trash. They first make a traitor out to be a hero with their nonstop BS, and then ask the gullible public for an opinion. LOL. What results did you expect? If the people knew the real arguments for and against, 80% would say traitor.

51   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Aug 8, 11:24am  

Strategist says

ISIS is there because of Islam, not Bush. Can we place blame appropriately? Thanks.

Ishlam was there long before Bush and there was no ISIS. How do you explain it?

52   Strategist   2014 Aug 8, 11:28am  

Heraclitusstudent says

Strategist says

Trying hundreds of terrorists in our civil courts? Oh God. Remember OJ?

You're like "Our system is the best" "we are good guys" "our government is fully trustworthy".

Next post: "Nah... our system doesn't work. We *really* have to throw away due process and send undesirable people to concentration camps."

How do you survive the cognitive dissonance?

OK. You cornered me.
We have the best system that needs improvement. We give the wrong people to many rights. Take the eg. of the scumbags in Gitmo.....they love "fruit loops" LOL. Do you think they treat us the same, or do they just take off our heads?
I say just shoot them. They are a waste of "fruit loops"

53   Strategist   2014 Aug 8, 11:30am  

Heraclitusstudent says

Strategist says

We screwed up in Iraq. 911 made us angry and trigger happy which resulted in us making mistakes. Mistakes happen....what can we do?

No, sorry. You can't say "Ooops sorry, my bad". It's waaaay too easy.

It's not like you just bumped into an old lady in the subway.

You had to think about it before hand. Just like NSA.

So what do we do?

54   Strategist   2014 Aug 8, 11:34am  

Heraclitusstudent says

Strategist says

ISIS is there because of Islam, not Bush. Can we place blame appropriately? Thanks.

Ishlam was there long before Bush and there was no ISIS. How do you explain it?

Islamic terrorism was there long before Bush and long before America. They just have different names.
Same terrorist, different name.
If we are to progress and make the world a better place for all our future generations, we have to first destroy these 7th century lunatics.

55   Dan8267   2014 Aug 8, 11:37am  

Strategist says

There is no way we can try thousands of terrorists

You are so full of shit. One In 25 Americans Was Arrested In 2011 If there's one thing America does well, it's incarcerating people. Thousands of terrorists would be a drop in the bucket compared to the 78 million Americans processed by the system each year.

But hey, if you think the courts are too clogged down, eliminate all anti-marijuana laws and we'll have plenty of resources to prosecute terrorists.

Strategist says

I'm perfectly willing to sacrifice due process for terrorists. Let them get their due process from their fucking Allah.

And one day some Muslim blows up you and your family and says, "I'm perfectly willing to sacrifice due process for infidels. Let them get their due process from their fucking Jesus."

You are no different from them.

Strategist says

Dan8267 says

Silly? How fucking evil do you have to be to consider fatal human medical experimentation, forced sterilization, and outright murder to be "silly"? Christ, man. These are Holocaust crimes. Did you think the Holocaust was silly, too?

He he he he. Relax.

So that's a yes, then?

Strategist says

Dan8267 says

11. Our government has illegally murdered its own citizens without trial or even charges including minors.

Awlaki comes to mind. Good.

That you would praise the murder of an innocent 16-year-old American is despicable. Murdering him and the other innocent minors eating dinner at a restaurant is abhorrent to anyone with integrity or morals. It was also cowardly.

Strategist says

Dan8267 says

9. Our government has performed illegal medical experiments on its own citizens against their will. Many of these victims died as a result.



10. Our government has illegally sterilized its own citizens against their will.

Did Bgmall4 tell you this?

We aren't all willfully ignorant like you.

A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation
Every one of these crimes is an abomination.

Ugly past of U.S. human experiments uncovered

Pictures that show how U.S. experimented on its own disabled citizens and prison inmates

Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks

Unlike you, I don't make shit up. I can always back up my statements with evidence. And I don't bluff.

56   Dan8267   2014 Aug 8, 11:39am  

Strategist says

I'm a bat shit crazy liberal leaning independent.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/c4psKYpfnYs

Everything you advocate is the opposite of liberty.

57   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Aug 8, 11:42am  

Strategist says

we have to first destroy these 7th century lunatics.

You're sooo naive. Once you kill them all, and become the new Wehrmacht, there will new ones: more modern and dangerous. You just repeat the same old patterns.

You didn't see the movie?:
"There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet"

There is nothing you can do about that. It's just a question of how you live your life knowing it's the case.

58   Strategist   2014 Aug 8, 11:50am  

Dan8267 says

Strategist says

There is no way we can try thousands of terrorists

You are so full of shit. One In 25 Americans Was Arrested In 2011 If there's one thing America does well, it's incarcerating people. Thousands of terrorists would be a drop in the bucket compared to the 78 million Americans processed by the system each year.

But hey, if you think the courts are too clogged down, eliminate all anti-marijuana laws and we'll have plenty of resources to prosecute terrorists.

Cheers mate. I'm all for it.

Dan8267 says

Strategist says

I'm perfectly willing to sacrifice due process for terrorists. Let them get their due process from their fucking Allah.

And one day some Muslim blows up you and your family and says, "I'm perfectly willing to sacrifice due process for infidels. Let them get their due process from their fucking Jesus."

You are no different from them.

They already do that. Do you think they give any due process while separating an infidel head from the body? I have no desire to be nice to them. Fuck them.

Dan8267 says

Strategist says

Dan8267 says

Silly? How fucking evil do you have to be to consider fatal human medical experimentation, forced sterilization, and outright murder to be "silly"? Christ, man. These are Holocaust crimes. Did you think the Holocaust was silly, too?

He he he he. Relax.

So that's a yes, then?

No. That's a relax.

Dan8267 says

Strategist says

Dan8267 says

11. Our government has illegally murdered its own citizens without trial or even charges including minors.

Awlaki comes to mind. Good.

That you would praise the murder of an innocent 16-year-old American is despicable. Murdering him and the other innocent minors eating dinner at a restaurant is abhorrent to anyone with integrity or morals. It was also cowardly.

If someone murdered a kid we have laws for that.
If he was a suicide bomber or something, I'm glad they killed him.

Dan8267 says

We aren't all willfully ignorant like you.

he he he. There might be something in that, I don't know. But it's really fun riling you up. :)

59   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Aug 8, 11:53am  

Strategist says

So what do we do?

There is no wisdom on what NSA is doing. Their actions are totally disproportionate to the threat.

As a result they destroyed trust:
- Default trust of the government in its people. (There will be plenty of false alarm).
- Trust of people in their government. (we are now in a country like Russia)
- Trust of people buying American hardware or American services.

Everyone will be suspicious. People will encrypt their communications just to defend their basic privacy. They will be defiant. Other countries will (1) do the same and (2) actively work to stop NSA. This will become an electronic war by default.

Every action creates a reaction. NSA created a giant mess.

One doesn't need to be a seer to understand that this lack of trust in the long run will cause far more arm to this country than any terrorist act it aims to prevent.

60   Heraclitusstudent   2014 Aug 8, 12:00pm  

Strategist says

I have no desire to be nice to them. Fuck them.

ISIS is representative of millions of mushlims. There are more than a billion mushlims. Whatever you do, they will still be there when you're done. You can kill as many as you want. It changes nothing. In fact fighting them probably just reinforces their more radical elements.

(Unless of course you're ready to go all the way an massacre them all, but then you're a nutcase).

61   smaulgld   2014 Aug 8, 12:03pm  

Strategist says

The government is not our enemy. It is OUR government. We elected it.

If you don't like the government vote for another one.

Not that simple- NO congressman or senator or Presidential candidate ran on a platform promising to spy on everyone.
The agencies are not responsive to the elective officials and as we have seen they spy on them too.

62   Strategist   2014 Aug 8, 12:29pm  

Heraclitusstudent says

Strategist says

I have no desire to be nice to them. Fuck them.

ISIS is representative of millions of mushlims. There are more than a billion mushlims. Whatever you do, they will still be there when you're done. You can kill as many as you want. It changes nothing. In fact fighting them probably just reinforces their more radical elements.

(Unless of course you're ready to go all the way an massacre them all, but then you're a nutcase).

No one wants to kill a billion Muslims. We want to protect a billion Muslims and 6 billion other people from the crazy Muslims who do want to kill all of us.

63   Patrick   2023 Nov 23, 5:01pm  

https://slaynews.com/news/bidens-nsa-pushing-marxism-queer-theory-employees-leaked-doc-shows/


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64   PeopleUnited   2023 Nov 24, 7:28pm  

Strategist says

ISIS is representative of millions of mushlims. There are more than a billion mushlims. Whatever you do, they will still be there when you're done. You can kill as many as you want. It changes nothing. In fact fighting them probably just reinforces their more radical elements.


Did you ever wonder Why aren’t there any Iranians, Palestinians or Saudis in Star Trek?



That’s obvious isn’t it? It takes place in the future.

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