Exception Expands Domestic Surveillance

drDugan writes "The Washington Post is reporting the next phase of American progress authorizing intelligence agencies to spy on law-abiding citizens without oversight. Primarily, new legislation allows an 'intelligence exception' to the privacy act 'allowing the FBI and others to share information gathered about U.S. citizens with the Pentagon, CIA and other intelligence agencies, as long as the data is deemed to be related to foreign intelligence. Backers say the measure is needed to strengthen investigations into terrorism or weapons of mass destruction.'"

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Its your country, its your fault.

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These are your rulers, the people you selected, and the system you chose. It's not as if you are defending your privacy, so you must not want it.

Look, if you want a solution, its the market. The free market, the private corporations, these entities run our society, but until recently, we had the ability to decide where to shop.

This will change soon, because once all the corporations have dirt on us all, they'll be able to force us to pay them to keep it quiet. If you want to do something positive, start a business like Google, become profitable, earn billions of dollars, and then you'll actually matter in the political world. If you can't start a company like Google, then you'll have to work with these companies because lets face it, Google owns us, just as bankers, insurance companies, oil companies and Walmart own us. We are owned by corporations, and the only way to own yourself is to start a corporation.

If you want to own America Inc, you'll have to start a business if you want a vote, and I'm surprised that we havent changed voting laws so only business owners have the right to vote. Maybe this would actually be a good idea.