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Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email
mspohr writes with this excerpt from Democracy Now!: "National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney reveals he believes domestic surveillance has become more expansive under President Obama than President George W. Bush. He estimates the NSA has assembled 20 trillion 'transactions' — phone calls, emails and other forms of data — from Americans. This likely includes copies of almost all of the emails sent and received from most people living in the United States. Binney talks about Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and challenges NSA Director Keith Alexander's assertion that the NSA is not intercepting information about U.S. citizens." The parts about National Security Letters in particular are chilling, even though the issue is not new.
Bush went to war against Iraq, Obama got us out. Can you see the wee-bit of difference there? I can and I'm voting for Obama.
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With the tiny remark that democrats also have very strict rules about who is allowed to have a group identity, and will spew untold amounts of hatred against whomever they deem unworthy. So they'll defend that muslims beat wives, or kill children (in sharia children are the property of the parents, that means that there is no punishment for killing your own children, and you can sell them into slavery, or to a brothel, or to have them fight amongst themselves to death for amusement, well you can literally sell them for meat, as long as the meat is not given to humans, only to animals. Well a mother can't entirely do this against her man's wishes, but even that is only a whipping). But democrats will join communists, including the "let's massacre the middle class out of existence" variety, the black panthers (which is, at the very best, a crime syndicate), other openly racist groups, white and black (they -slowly- disavowed the ku klux clan, but that's pretty much the only racist organization they disavowed) ... and a host of other groups.
I think the difference is that democrats are like the popular kids in high school. They will defend (verbally, or in writing) anyone they fear might directly attack them and win. Muslims, communists, ... anyone who might order direct physical attacks against them they "respect".
The sad part is, we are all perfectly aware what will happen in the democrat bed that so "tolerantly" invites anyone who'd like to fight to fight on their side. Like in 1979, communists, feminists and muslims will discover that while they all hate the current state, they hate each other more, and the only reason they get their little scraps of power is the fact that commit violence against their enemies. The curse, of course, is that their "shared" enemies won't be so shared at some point.
Or what would be even worse, is that fringe groups of pretty much any ideology would realise this is the mechanism, and that the democrats would have enthousiastically supported abortion clinic bombing if it wasn't 1, but 100 that were bombed, and sufficient real victims were made. Or that a group that is directed from the outside realizes this, like the chinese government.