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2013-06-08 Home Front: WoT

New reports allege vast US Internet spying sweep

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Posted by Fred 2013-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Come on now, lets get real, HOW CAN THIS N-O-T OCCUR GIVEN THE PRE-OBAMA FED'S SUPPORT FOR SO-CALLED "DATA MINING", "DATA SOURCING", + RELATED.

This should be of no surprise to anyone.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-06-08 01:18|| 2013-06-08 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Land of the FREE and home of the Brave, right?

The American people run the United States government, right?

Our Electoral process INSURES our ability to remain a free people whom our government LISTENS to, correct?

You WILL do as you are told, chubby. Now go get me a cup of coffee and then go get your broom.

Plebs and Patricians and money talks. The family Farm has been sold. You don't have a gun on you right now, do you? No? And when you see that flashing light behind you DO reach for your wallet don't you? How much land do you own? Any? Do you even own the place you sleep in?

Tell me about it. You are a Pleb and you step in it every day. And the guy with the Gold Rolex and the entourage shuts the street down when he drives by...and you watch from the sidewalk like a good little boy.

Yeah, tell me about it.

Posted by Threater Flusoper9823 2013-06-08 07:06|| 2013-06-08 07:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Welcome to the Burg NSA.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-06-08 08:22|| 2013-06-08 08:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Is not the "F" in "FISA" supposed to represent "Foreign"...?

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-06-08 09:46|| 2013-06-08 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 ...it's just another living breathing document in which 'they' interpreted as 'Federal'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-06-08 09:47|| 2013-06-08 09:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Ooopsie!

HT: Drudge

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-06-08 09:48|| 2013-06-08 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Somehow I'm not feeling safer or more free lately. I wonder if other Americans feel this way also? Moreover, it seems that the surveillance has missed a few recent bombings and attempted bombings. When the country began, people and their neighbors were responsible for their own safety. Freedom was a given.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-06-08 09:48|| 2013-06-08 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 PC has blinded us. Even the Ft. Hood shooter (workplace violence, sarc) didn't get picked up by the vast surveillance. The military/government didn't want to offend Muslims.

Posted by JohnQC 2013-06-08 09:50|| 2013-06-08 09:50|| Front Page Top

#9 Labeling Fort Hood "workplace violence" takes the attack a step away from terrorism, and two or more steps away from..... PRISM or other programme monitoring of terrorists such as MAJ Nidal Hasan and the late [due to drone zapping] Anwar Al-Awlaki.

The "we simply didn't know" [US Government response]. The principals are all deceased now, "what difference does it make".

Posted by Besoeker 2013-06-08 10:10|| 2013-06-08 10:10|| Front Page Top

#10 If I don't pay my taxes is it acceptable to say to the IRS, "What difference does it make? I don't have any receipts anyway. I don't know what came in and what went out. I got caught up in Easter Egg hunts and forgot to file or pay."

Posted by JohnQC 2013-06-08 12:09|| 2013-06-08 12:09|| Front Page Top

#11 If I don't pay my taxes is it acceptable to say to the IRS, "What difference does it make?

If 30 percent who filed this year alone, don't pay the next year, there's not enough lawyers, court time, or jail space in the country to make a difference.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-06-08 12:44|| 2013-06-08 12:44|| Front Page Top

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