Someone asked me what I thought about the NSA and their spy policies.
The woman I was speaking to said she didn't mind the spying because she
doesn't break the law (though she torrents movies online). All I could
quote was Martin Niemöller's famous quote which he wrote in a Nazi
prison camp:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.
The NSA "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world."
— The New York Times
The NSA collected "almost 3 billion pieces of intelligence from US computer networks" in one month in 2013.
— The Guardian
The
NSA is collecting the content and metadata of emails, web activity,
chats, social networks, and everything else as part of what it calls
"upstream" collection.
— The Washington Post
The NSA "is
harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail
and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging
to Americans."
— The Washington Post
The NSA "is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world."
— The Washington Post
The
NSA "is searching the contents of vast amounts of Americans’ e-mail and
text communications into and out of the country." — The New York Times
WHAT CAN YOU DO? Email your legislators:
https://thedaywefightback.org
Musician Malcolm Kogut has been tickling the ivories since he was 14 and won the NPM DMMD Musician of the Year award in 99. He has CDs along with many published books. Malcolm played in the pit for many Broadway touring shows. When away from the keyboard, he loves exploring the nooks, crannies and arresting beauty of the Adirondack Mountains, battling gravity on the ski slopes and roller coasters.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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