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Sunday, June 9, 2013

It's 1984

Has Been For Years


 ~ Lost in all the breathless coverage of the NSA eavesdropping brouhaha is that it isn't news.

Headline news: May 2006

While a small number of us worry about that our civil liberties are being steadily eroded, most of the American public actually trusts their government to snoop secretly into every communication they fancy. We traded liberty for security long ago, so what's the current fuss really all about?

1 comment:

  1. Canada too:

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/data-collection-program-got-green-light-from-mackay-in-2011/article12444909/

    Just thought I//d throw that in so the NSA and CSEC would have a bit more to read.

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