Spy Panel : Fox News

Did you know there are still people out there that don't believe America is spying on the whole wide world , that think we who say this all wear tin foil hats and should be locked away as  crazies ?

To you I say , where have you been hiding ? It's been headline news since the summer of 2013.  In fact , here's a little clip of Fox News , a major american news station , talking about it.


http://youtu.be/ZCSBqYee5IQ


Interesting things .

1. The figure 200 000 000 (two hundred million) text messages a day ,from around the world , being captured by NSA , was mentioned.

2. The collection of phone data (they still refuse to state they're listening in on your calls , and it's still illegal for the phone company to tell anyone what information exactly they are giving over to the NSA)  will now be held by a third party organization , and you'll have to go to an "american" judge to get it.  Oh , if you're a foriener , because they listen in on the whole wide world , there's a council of (american) advocates that will decide if it's ok for americans to listen in on non-american information . (phone calls , email , text messages, anything they dig up )

3... The entire speach and discussion after words can be translated as "We're still doing it , we aint gonna stop"


4... Edward Snowden broke the law and should go to jail for it. Breaking Laws is not allowed.

Other than the usual shock at the whole sale violation of every human beings privacy on the entire planet , the following thoughts occured to me.

A council of americans deciding which phone calls / other internet traffic of a non-american can be listenned to is about as dubious and unreliable as it gets. I am not assured of anything by this move. But of course, not being an american , I don't get to vote against Obama , do I ?

The NSA is already a government agency full of "trustworthy non-criminals with security clearnances" . Creating another agency to do the same job , full of the same kind of people , is little more than shuffling chairs on the deck of the titanic. A cosmetic feel good change with no actual effect.

At least they mentioned american businesses are going to take a hit because no one trusts them anymore. I knew that was coming.

As for Edward Snowden breaking the law , so was every single escaped slave in American back when slave keeping was legal.  Such statements are without meaning. We are not talking about how the americans decided to make their activities perfectly legal (by american law) . Such a discussion is meaningless in the context that their activities range far , far far outside their borders and deep into the privacy and rights of the citizens of other countries. Canadians really don't care that the americans think it's perfectly legal to spy on them.

Anyways ... this video pretty much recaps the whole nsa spying on the world situation , for those of you who have been asleep the last  10 months.