NSA Surveillance Fears Give Republicans A Great In With Young Americans

And then you get your updated Obamacare bill. And realize, you are now Obama’s debt slave!!!

Americans born after 1980 voted by some 25% margin for President Obama over Mitt Romney…

Young people are more Democratic and pro-Obama – but they’re even more pro-liberty.

Senator Rand Paul is likely to find that, as for his father Ron Paul, a strong libertarian platform is popular with young voters.

The GOP should seize this chance.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that the Republican party has a problem with the millennial generation. Americans born after 1980 voted by some 25pt for President Obama over Mitt Romney, while the rest of the electorate narrowly supported the Republican candidate. It’s my view that Republicans can do little to attract most Millennials – but privacy may be the exception.

Our Guardian poll conducted by Public Policy Polling indicated that Democrats were more supportive of President Obama’s position on the National Security Agency (NSA) leaks than other parts of the electorate:

• 58% of Democrats were OK with the government collecting data on internet or phone data, compared with 44% of voters overall

• By a 4pt margin, Democrats were more fearful of putting national security at risk than of infringing civil liberties. That compares with a 22pt margin going the other way among the overall sample

• Only 28% of Democrats said that the information learned made them less likely to support President Obama against 48% of the electorate overall

These results aren’t too surprising given that a political base usually support its leader. That’s why you saw far more Democrats supporting Obama’s actions on collection and access of phone and internet records than for a somewhat similar policy under President Bush, while Republicans were far more receptive of the policies under Bush than under Obama…..

Read more at guardian.co.uk …

On The Road To World Domination, We Experience a Few Problems

What are you doing here?

So what is wrong with low approval ratings?

We’ve made a few changes, for your security,

Like our new lawn ornaments?

It worked with the Boston Marathon bombers, we got them didn’t we? Only 3 people killed and 264 injured. Dead little people, what’s the big deal?

Big Government is good … I know that because they told me …

Didn’t you attend the closed door press briefing with our dear leader?

For the kiddies who don’t know but soon will understand … Ingsoc (Newspeak for “English Socialism“) is the political ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania in George Orwell‘s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. I remember when it was all the rage among the youngsters. They have decorated cells, you will like.

Can We Trust The NSA

To not connect your phone calls to your emails, to your online posts, to your banks records, to your IRS records, to your health records? Quite a web we weave in normal life. Like where do you buy your gold? People it is now time to switch to cash. Put down that credit card right now.

Sooner or later it was bound to happen … We would elect an America hater … Who had no morals.

Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune tries to clear things up for us.

Chicago Tribune:

The dividing line between those who are creeped out by the National Security Agency’s surveillance of phone calls and Internet communications and those who are cool with it comes down to a simple question: Do you trust the federal government not to misuse its power?

Libertarians like myself, as well as ACLU-type civil libertarians, generally don’t. Some liberals do, at least as long as someone like Barack Obama is in the Oval Office. Some conservatives feel the same way, but only when Republicans control the White House. Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, writing in National Review Online, argues, “The problem here is not government power. It is the government officials we’ve elected to wield it.”

I think he has it backward. It’s guaranteed that any government power will sooner or later wind up in the hands of the “wrong” people or party. So it’s essential to restrict that authority — or else not grant it at all. Otherwise, we are inviting intolerable abuses.

James Madison understood all this, which is why he favored sturdy checks and balances to keep power under control. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” he wrote in The Federalist papers. “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

The problem with existing counter-terrorism laws is that those checks have been neutralized. Congress seems to have had only a dim idea what the NSA was doing, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that approves such programs operates in secret, without hearing the side of anyone who might oppose broad monitoring of citizens.

Without effective checks on executive power, we’re dependent on the people in the White House to control themselves. The experience with George W. Bush and Barack Obama suggests that’s a losing bet. Madison wouldn’t be surprised.

Let’s Look At Leftist’s Big Government

How is Detroit doing today … Didn’t you get your share.

You see people are proud of the things they get when they work for it. Handouts, not so much so.

In Detroit, the people just walked out, it wasn’t worth saving … Liberal Detroit. And they set their sights on the USA, to remodel it in the light of Detroit.

Wordwide: U.S. surveillance revelations deepen European fears

Europeans reacted angrily on Friday to revelations that U.S. authorities had tapped the servers of internet companies for personal data, saying they confirmed their worst fears about American Web giants and showed tighter regulations were needed.

The Washington Post and the Guardian aroused outrage with reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI had accessed central servers of Google, Facebook and others and gathered millions of phone users’ data.

Europe, which lacks internet giants of its own, has long yearned to contain the power of the U.S. titans that dominate the Web, and privacy-focusedGermany was quick to condemn their co-operation with the U.S. security services.

“The U.S. government must provide clarity regarding these monstrous allegations of total monitoring of various telecommunications and Internet services,” said Peter Schaar, German data protection and freedom of information commissioner.

“Statements from the U.S. government that the monitoring was not aimed at U.S. citizens but only against persons outside the United States do not reassure me at all.”

The Post said the secret program involving the internet companies, code-named PRISM and established under President George W. Bush, had seen “exponential growth” during the past several years under Barack Obama.

Some of the companies named in the article have denied the government had “direct access” to their central servers. Nevertheless, the justice minister for the German state of Hesse, Joerg-Uwe Hahn, called for a boycott of the companies involved.

“I am amazed at the flippant way in which companies such as Google and Microsoft seem to treat their users’ data,” he told the Handelsblatt newspaper. “Anyone who doesn’t want that to happen should switch providers.”

CONCERNS RIPPLE BEYOND EUROPE

Just The Tip Of The Iceberg

Whistleblower’s NSA warning: ‘Just the tip of the iceberg’…

The National Security Agency’s collection of phone data from all of Verizon’s U.S. customers is just the “tip of the iceberg,” says a former NSA official who estimates the agency has data on as many as 20 trillion phone calls and emails by U.S. citizens.

William Binney, an award-winning mathematician and noted NSA whistleblower, says the collection dates back to when the super-secret agency began domestic surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Put evil in the hands of people who have evil in their hearts, and you get evil.

Tell me the targeting of the Tea Party does not prove that point.

Obama New Bat Cave Opens In October

There is no question that the big winners from last week were George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, two men vilified for years by the left, the media, and Barack Obama as eager to use the War on Terror as an excuse to violate the Constitutional rights of everyday Americans. Obama ran for president as the anti-Bush in many respects, but especially on the issue of surveillance and snooping.

Well, we now know — no thanks to the American mainstream media — that Obama’s hypocrisy on this issue is as vast and wide as the dragnet he is using to snoop into our computers and phone calls (and those of the media during those rare times they don’t play White House stenographer). Moreover, Obama not only embraced his predecessors anti-terror surveillance policies; he has gone a step further in declaring the War on Terror pretty much over, even as he expands on those policies.

For instance… this:

The Daily Mail:

The personal data and private online conversations that the National Security Administration is accused of mining could be stashed in a one million square-foot, $1.9 billion facility in the Utah Valley.

Concerns over what the government will store at the Utah Data Center have been reinvigorated by the revelation that U.S. intelligence agencies have been extracting audio, video, photos, e-mails, documents and other information to track people’s movements and contacts.

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Read more at breitbart.com …

Makes Chenney look really evil, no?

On Barack Milhous Obama Nixon

40 years and it appears nothing has changed…

 

Funny Blast From The Past

Obama speech — “The War We Need to Win” – August 1, 2007.

No more illegal wiretaps … comes with an asterisk.

Having the phone numbers is what is important to the surveillance state. It’s not the phone conversations that is desired. Define the connections then you have them. Form every phone call you make, everything you buy, everyplace you go, every gas station purchase.

The connection  mosaics that show the connections between people are the most important.

Are you laughing now???

Does anybody give a damn whether Bush started this or Obama? Someone could have shut it down years ago.

Inside The NSA PRISM

Just remember the Presidential Daily Briefing were about 75% based on PRISM.

So the I didin’t know nothing defense fails miserably.

Here are some really frightening details:

Even when the system works just as advertised, with no American singled out for targeting, the NSA routinely collects a great deal of American content. That is described as “incidental,” and it is inherent in contact chaining, one of the basic tools of the trade. To collect on a suspected spy or foreign terrorist means, at minimum, that everyone in the suspect’s inbox or outbox is swept in. Intelligence analysts are typically taught to chain through contacts two “hops” out from their target, which increases “incidental collection” exponentially.

Click here to read the full report and here to see portions of the leaked PowerPoint presentation.

It’s not about terrorists … Remember the War on Terror is over … So tell us what is really going on here? Hmmm.

Here’s how The Washington Post reports the story:

An internal presentation on the Silicon Valley operation, intended for senior analysts in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, described the new tool as the most prolific contributor to the President’s Daily Brief, which cited PRISM data in 1,477 articles last year. According to the briefing slides, obtained by The Washington Post, “NSA reporting increasingly relies on PRISM” as its leading source of raw material, accounting for nearly 1 in 7 intelligence reports.

That is a remarkable figure in an agency that measures annual intake in the trillions of communications. It is all the more striking because the NSA, whose lawful mission is foreign intelligence, is reaching deep inside the machinery of American companies that host hundreds of millions of American-held accounts on American soil.

Under President Obama, the program has allegedly enjoyed “exponential growth” since its founding in 2007 when then-Senator Obama routinely criticized President George W. Bush’s surveillance programs.

Give evildoers power and don’t expect they won’t use it.