Privacy vs security, whose 'privacy' are they really concerned about?

Greetings good citizen, Today 'Democracies' around the world are teetering on the edge of totalitarianism as the elected portion of the government is subjegated by the 'appointed' portion, a long ignored danger that sprang into existence in a misplaced desire for 'continuity'. A legacy of the 'cold war' era.

This is the elephant in the room, we elect a, er, figurehead (who then proceeds to adopt the mantle of 'the leader of the free world') yet it is this man/individual's 'appointed' department heads who weild the real power in government.

Bad enough the only thing we, the citizens who must live under the decrees issued by this, 'meatpuppet', are permitted to do is vote for which meatpuppet will nominally be responsible for appointing a suite of autocrats s/he has no control over.

At the heart of this article is the issue of privacy vs. security but as we know the deeper issue is the public's right to know what the government is doing to them in their name, under the banner of 'safety', a goal which becomes ever more elusive as the heavy-handed and unaccountable appointees use robots to cleanse 'undesirables' without the benefit of a trial.

Bad enough our government is leading the way in this usurpation of the will of the people (in the name of our safety, of course!) but today's headlines tell us other nations are following suit:

PARIS — For two years after the revelations by Edward J. Snowden, Europe was awash in talk about American excesses in mass surveillance, objecting to how the National Security Agency swept up emails and phone conversations — even of political leaders like Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany — in an American electronic net that seemed to envelop the Continent.

But the past few months have helped clarify what much of Europe really objected to: the American involvement in that surveillance, not the net itself. Worried about Islamic extremists in its midst, Britain passed even more sweeping surveillance laws last summer. And in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris in January, the French have begun what has become almost a rite of passage for Western nations since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, voting through the lower house of Parliament on Tuesday vastly expanded government powers to protect, and spy on, its own citizens.


The lower house of the French parliament held a vote on Tuesday to adopt new surveillance rules.

Even Ms. Merkel, who lectured President Obama in 2013 about her family’s life under the East German Stasi, found herself reminding reporters the other day that Germany often has to spy to protect its citizens — while dancing around the question of how much it may have cooperated with the N.S.A. in looking at Airbus Industries.

While government spying 'for the public good' has yet to yeild positive results, the ever growing threat of being labeled an 'aggitator' is tearing our society to shreds.

People are mimicing conservative talking points to avoid the appearance of being 'unpatriotic.'

Sadly, we need to clean our political house and put the honest citizenry back in charge of our affairs or the self-interested will continue to pillage whatever they want and cry 'public safety' if anyone questions them.

The question you have to ask yourself good citizen is why you're reding this here and not in the corporate owned media, the one who are supposed to be watching out for the public's interest?

Thanks for letting me inside your head