Monthly Archives: October 2013

Finally Getting Some Attention

Finally, the NSA and the President are having to answer questions regarding the USA spying operations. And finally, this was headline news on at least one of the nationial media outlets this morning.  What frustrates me is that it wasn’t the USA’s citizens that caused the NSA and the President to answer for their unconstitutional spy, but foreign leaders.  I am sure they are fed up with the USA snooping around in all their emails and their phone calls.  Please visit the link below for more information:

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21209499-us-coping-with-furious-allies-as-nsa-spying-revelations-grow?lite

“The latest report, published Monday in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, said that the National Security Agency had collected information on 60 million calls in that country last December.”

Alex

Standing Together, Patriot Act 12th Anniversary

It boggles my mind that this type of information is not headlines news with our local and national media outlets.  Please take the time to read this link from the ACLU:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-free-speech/edward-snowden-saturday-demand-end-surveillance-state

On October 26, there was a rally in DC organized by the StopWatching.US coalition.  This marked the 12th anniversary of the signing of the Patriot Act into law.  As with anything regarding the government, this law was put into place with good (we would hope) intentions, but look at it now?  Being exploited and abused so that our government can watch everything we do even if it is not related to terrorist activities.

Here is a quote from Snowden that is an excerpt from the above link:

“In the last four months, we’ve learned a lot about our government.

We’ve learned that the U.S. intelligence community secretly built a system of pervasive surveillance. Today, no telephone in America makes a call without leaving a record with the NSA. Today, no internet transaction enters or leaves America without passing through the NSA’s hands. Our representatives in Congress tell us this is not surveillance. They’re wrong.

Now it’s time for the government to learn from us. On Saturday, the ACLU, EFF, and the rest of the StopWatching.Us coalition are going to D.C. Join us in sending the message: Stop Watching Us.”

Lets keep the momentum going!!  Spread the word!  We can make a change at the next Presidential election.

Alex

The Far Reach

Yet another revelation made today regarding the NSA and it’s PRISM program.

Please see source: 

 http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/14/20965353-report-nsa-sweeps-up-contact-lists-across-the-globe-including-those-of-americans?lite

The far reaching arm of the NSA keeps getting more personal.  We might as well just assume that our Government knows everything there is to know about us.  Especially those that share their lives on Facebook or any other social media website.  The NSA is in the process of mapping, or what I call creating a web, all Americas and who they associate with.

So the question is, do you mind that they know everything about you?  These guys are at the point where they can pick any citizen and know every detail about them.  From your call logs, call lengths, your personal contacts, bank accounts, where you live, what you purchase, travel, etc.  If you use Facebook, they know all the people you associate with and now they know all their information.  There is an article that came out recently about how they use social media to map everyone’s actions.  I will post that as soon as I find it.

If you are bothered by this, get off Facebook and any other social media sites.  Not only are these sites created to make money off you, these companies are required to create back door access for the NSA to use.

Alex

UPDATE – Another article to reference:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/14/nsa-collecting-email-and-messaging-contacts-worldwide/

 

 

Distractions

Please don’t let the government shutdown circus distract you from the fact that the PRISM program is still going strong.  I assure you, that program is still be funded and running as planned.

I guess my point is, with all the distracting news happening, it is easy to forget what really matters.  We still have three years until the next election.  We must make sure that the candidates, Republican, Democratic or independent, address the need to strengthen our Constitutional Forth Amendment, by putting safe guards on the NSA and the PRISM program.  Stop the unreasonable searches and seizures of innocent Americans.

Just my thought of today –

Alex