When will this privacy invasion end?
The cartoon depicts a
presumably naked couple, under their sheets, in the privacy of their bedroom. A
camera labeled “NSA” peeks under the sheets, to the horror of the
lady.
Punch line: The man in the
cartoon replies to his friend “If you have nothing to hide, then you have
nothing to worry about, honey!”
This cartoon recollection
of mine is from years ago, but it obviously stuck – at least in my mind. We have
been living with encroaching intrusiveness of our “security apparatus” almost
since I can remember, worsening significantly after 9/11, but I heard a learned
WMAL radio panelist of the liberal persuasion make this exact statement
yesterday.
Noted big mouth radio talk
show host Dr. Michael Savage rides this issue constantly, even when unpopular.
He’s been designated as a crazy by those ignoring (or running cover for) this
horrific issue, and is banned from travel to London by their equally Orwellian
government. Dr. Savage states that “He’s
always lived his life as if everything he says and does becomes public in some
way”…through police state style eavesdropping.
The mini-camera in your
iPhone and laptops and HDTVs can be operated remotely, and every loudspeaker is
a potential a microphone that can be tapped-into. Nothing on the Internet is
secure.
Hundreds of thousands of
cameras populate street corners of London, aided by custom facial recognition
software, courtesy of Northrop-Grumman Corporation. The advertised purpose is to
make policing cheaper, and to “keep honest people honest.” New York City and
other large domains are doing the same. In some cases this is linked to
microphones tuned to capture the sounds of gunfire and explosions, in an effort
to respond quickly by triangulation.
Ah, the profits buried in
“the war on terror!” But at what cost? Did we block the 9/11 attacks or the
Marathon Bombers? The cost is in your civil liberty!
In reality, the cameras act
as a deterrent mostly, and in the recent case of the beheading and slaughter of
a British soldier on London Streets – captured on film – a 20-minute response
time by police was the best they could do; it would have been a tardy clean-up
effort only, except that the radical Muslim terrorist perpetrators waited
patiently for execution by cop as a political statement.
The other news of the day,
of course, are the four or five Obama Administration scandals involving
corruption in the IRS, influence taking, and censorship of the Associated Press via records tampering
and records collection. To date, a special-prosecutor has still not been
assigned, and the Justice Department itself is under suspicion. Well, by all but
the “compliant-media.
Governments can go bad;
absolute power has been proven to absolutely corrupt every single time as
measured by our history books as far back as they go.
And it has been
demonstrated that the people can be cogitated into a faux political coma and
convinced that they have no power to push back the rising tide of bad-acting.
The “sheeple,” as subjugated into submission by constant recession and economic
strife, must worry about the next paycheck, mortgage payment, and sometimes
meal…instead.
All the while our
fundamental problems in society are not being addressed, and taxes fund yet more
cameras and electronic self-surveillance. It has been fully demonstrated that
cash thrown at security measures since the attack on the World Trade Center has
not stemmed terrorism, but impacts from the data collections of innocent
citizens is turning regular people against the new
oppressors…ourselves.
Mistrust of Government is
at an all-time-high, even under the tutelages of our protector-in-chief, the
anything but transparent president. This, despite promises to the
contrary!
Will we toss up our arms in
the air and give up, trusting those we clearly should not, and allow the camera
under the bedroom sheets?
Certainly past performance
is the best predictor of future behaviors. The problem is that new technological
advances in data-collection, data mining, and surveillance techniques, aided by
collusion with Google and Facebook addiction allow for worse and
worst outcomes.
Something has got to
give.
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