[lbo-talk] Hands off my metadata

[c b]

"With all the recent discussion about Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden,
and the NSA leaks, I was hit with a surprising feeling
of…indifference. As a Patriot Act hating progressive, I was troubled
by my own lack of outrage. Don’t get me wrong, I think the NSA
surveillance is definitely a case of government overreach and more
than a little creepy. Does it bother me less that the program is
currently under the Obama administration? I suppose it does. Not
because I think I’m an apologist, but because I know he’s not Ted
Cruz. Of course, the scary part is that after expanding this program
what would it look like under a President Ted Cruz? We aren’t going to
have a Democrat in the White House forever. I shudder at the thought.
Yet still, I simply can’t bring myself to being up in arms over it.
After a considerable amount of reflection,the reason came to me. As a
majority in many cases and a plurality in almost all cases, we have
already given it away…willingly.

After the shit hit the fan on 9/11, Americans were all too eager to
give in to fear, because as Warren Zevon once sang, “You’re a whole
different person when you’re scared.” And make no mistake, we were
scared. Hell, if you weren’t a little frightened I question your grasp
on reality. Unfortunately, that fear took hold at a time when the
clown prince of president’s, George W. Bush, was in office. With
Cheney and Rumsfeld in tow, 9/11 gave the Bush Administration carte
blanche post tragedy."

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Full at: http://thebigslice.org/if-you-want-to-be-angry-about-privacy-then-stop-giving-it-away/

Word. I was like did all these people have amnesia about the Patriot
Act ? I assume spooks can almost read my thoughts by now. Since,
McCarthyism and before that the Palmer Raids in 1919, we Reds have had
to have pure thoughts and actions in the USA.

Charles