Katrina vanden Heuvel is spot on when she writes in the Washington Post, "We cannot accept a paternal pat on the head, with Americans and the Congress told to leave this to the professionals. At stake is the very heart of the Constitution and the democracy."
Check out her full piece, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-the-nsa-state-of-secrecy-must-end/2013/06/18/98240ea4-d77f-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html
I was checking out some of the officials speaking on national television about the spy programs thwarting certain terrorist attacks. But what I find extreme and disingenuous in the statements of these officials is the complete lack of recognition that there is in fact more than one kind of death. The current officialdom conveniently (and in a corrupt self-serving manner) fails to admit that the massive surveillance-police State prison-never-ending warfare-industrial complex REPRESENTS A WORSE KIND OF WIDESPREAD DEATH OF WHO WE CAN BE AS A PEOPLE THAN THE RELATIVELY SMALL CHANCE OF BEING KILLED IN A TERRORIST ATTACK.
Given the free choice, I will take my chances of being killed in a terrorist attack than hand over all my liberty to the world's greatest terrorists, gangsters and thugs, the hijackers of the State. I will say this again and again, the most ruthless few, at the top armed with the world's most advanced weaponry and spy apparatus, represent the greater danger to "We, the People."
Check out her full piece, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-the-nsa-state-of-secrecy-must-end/2013/06/18/98240ea4-d77f-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html
I was checking out some of the officials speaking on national television about the spy programs thwarting certain terrorist attacks. But what I find extreme and disingenuous in the statements of these officials is the complete lack of recognition that there is in fact more than one kind of death. The current officialdom conveniently (and in a corrupt self-serving manner) fails to admit that the massive surveillance-police State prison-never-ending warfare-industrial complex REPRESENTS A WORSE KIND OF WIDESPREAD DEATH OF WHO WE CAN BE AS A PEOPLE THAN THE RELATIVELY SMALL CHANCE OF BEING KILLED IN A TERRORIST ATTACK.
Given the free choice, I will take my chances of being killed in a terrorist attack than hand over all my liberty to the world's greatest terrorists, gangsters and thugs, the hijackers of the State. I will say this again and again, the most ruthless few, at the top armed with the world's most advanced weaponry and spy apparatus, represent the greater danger to "We, the People."
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