The big lie in Obama’s NSA speech today is that anyone is concerned that their private life is being spied on. The problem is not that they might know who you ‘re dating. The target of this surveillance is POLITICAL ACTIVISTS. That is the point of abuse — to root out or intimidate dissidents. We all have a stake in privacy, but they’re making it seem like the incursions are trivial or for no special purpose. The purpose imo is to after anti-GMO, anti-fracking, Occupy, Anonymous, anti-Israel, etc. people — or to scare them into not participating. This is not about spying on Aunt Mable and taking her apple pie recipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The big lie in Obama’s NSA speech today is that anyone is concerned that their private life is being spied on. The problem is not that they might know who you ‘re dating. The target of this surveillance is POLITICAL ACTIVISTS. That is the point of abuse — to root out or intimidate dissidents. We … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}