So this is interesting. It basically confirms what many of us have been saying since the Patriot Act went into effect: your information is no longer private, regardless of whether you are a US citizen or not.
It was a well known fact that the NSA had approached every major wireless phone carrier and asked for access to their data. T-Mobile was apparently the only one to ask for a warrant. Of course, now that they've been purchased by AT&T... I think we see where this is headed.
Wait a second. This isn't just headed in that direction. It's already damn well there. We arrived at the draconian police state sometime just after the tragic events of 9/11, and still, we've managed to fall so very far.
Warantless wire-tapping of US citizens? Where is the outrage? Where are the riots?
We've been conditioned to fear our government, and thus far, it's working quite well.
Did you know that the NSA was created for the limited purpose of monitoring foreign communications? Why then, have they been given mandate from on high to sift through their own citizens' communications? Or was the mandate even given? Do they simply operate as a clandestine organization, untainted by the ever-changing stream of irrelevant politicians that filter through the doors every 2 and 4 years.
There is a simple answer and it is a frightening one: they see us as the enemy. Not the terrorists, with whom they fight a 'Global War on Terror' (a fight that can never be won, nor was it ever intended to be). Certainly not other nations, many of whom face similarly draconian governments to contend with.
We are enemies of the system because we possess the power to speak out against it in a way that was never possible before. The internet allows a literal global consciousness to exist in the collective hearts and minds of humanity. Wondering when we would be able to tap into a universal, global consciousness? It's already here.
You can get a college education on the internet for free right now. You can get news from all over the world within seconds. You can see the huge difference between what is reported online and what makes the so-called "television news". I'm reluctant to call it news since it barely qualifies as that, regurgitating 15 second sound bites until the horse has been beaten to an unrecognizable pulp.
This is not an argument against government. But we were warned many times in the past by men much more learned in the ways of founding and sustaining a working government body than any man who claims knowledge in the current sphere of politics. Eisenhower warned us of the military industrial complex. Jefferson warned of the bankers. They were prescient, or perhaps simply more forward thinking than many of us today.
Thus far, humanity has yet to come up with a better system than capitalism. It seems that, despite its monumental flaws, it still might be the best thing we've got. The only question is, why should we settle for the best we have now? Why not strive to improve our race as a whole, and not simply elevate the top 1% even further while the bottom half of the world's population is left to live in varying degrees of poverty.
Overpopulation is a huge issue, and it's one that no one wants to address, but you can bet that the people who drive the engine that determines the future of humanity are attempting to figure it out. There are lots of attempts to discover the method, means, or reason for why the elite would want to exterminate a portion of the population, but it makes perfect sense from a rational, logical perspective.
There are already programs in place to ensure that humanity continues to die at a steady pace. Chem trails, fluoridation of the water supply, and the genetic modification of foods by Monsanto are all troubling developments for the health and well-being of our species.
So where does that leave us? More later.
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