I don't understand what the complaining is all about from you guys here on WJunction.
We are all capable of masking who we are online digitally, hiding behind VPN's as "Infoman" said or taking other precautionary steps. The internet is a continuously evolving beast, as new technology comes out and new monitoring tools are put in place, we have for the past 30 years continued to manipulate those tools and advance beyond the point of detection for some time.
I view this not as a negative, but as a positive. Firstly, this information isn't anything new. It's been public knowledge here in the United States that the Government has been monitoring all Facebook accounts, Google accounts, PayPal transactions and so on. It's common sense to know that they are reading emails and listening to phone calls, because they stuffed those laws in with Patriot Acts 1, 2 and 3.
So what can you do about it? You can start hiding behind a VPN, proxies. Stop using Cloud Services (as I have stressed to everyone since day one) and get back to the old fashioned boxes that you can purchase yourself, send to a DC and have it sitting on a rack that you know the location of. Can they get in? Sure they can, but it's not going to be already monitored.... If you're using a cellphone, get a non-residual (Pre-2006) so that way when you take the battery out, the towers are no longer pinging you. Stop using SKYPE, because it's the mother of all monitoring services for the United States (which is part of the reason why they pushed Microsoft's MSN messenger to merge into SKYPE) for text, video & voice. How do you think they really busted some Anonymous members?
Statements such as "there's going to be World War 3" is ridiculous, there isn't going to be World War 3 over Mr. Snowden. There's hundreds of Mr. Snowden's, it just so happens that he happened to make the news in this case. The rest have leaked far worse information that would never be televised and have been incarcerated under Homeland Terrorism acts.
The Government of the United States has the Media, the Internet and the Economy in their pocket. They've dumbed down almost 50% of the population here (and keep letting the Mexicans cross the border who can vote for them) to the point that they don't have a clue and just go with the flow of things. The American people are good people, the Government however has grown too powerful. We have entered a state where Patriotism means "Keeping Quiet".
Benjamin Franklin said it best numerous times....
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
"This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins."
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
So I must re-iterate what I have said above in this short post. These things that you now know are just the tip of the iceberg. The United States is monitoring not only your digital movements, but also your physical ones. This government has built buyer personas on each and every single one of you. If you shop using your bank card or credit card it's all cataloged into a system that shows your traits and your routine, whether you drink, whether you smoke, a good way for them to figure you out and easily get into your mind, to brainwash you just a little bit more, to take another penny by more effective advertising, to (in a few more years) in the future jack up your health care rates if you are an excessive drinker/smoker based on your purchase history. This Government has mega satellites in the SKY that put Google Earth to shame, that not only can give you a street view of your house, but literally record every single movement throughout the day. If there's something they need to research, it's rewound, footsteps are traced, and they will track your next location. They can zoom in between blinds, they can see through roofs. Your Microwaves (even though Manufactured by China) are embedded with usage devices and microchips for documentation purposes, your TV's (even though Manufactured by Japan) have had Microphones for more than a decade and now most have Webcams/Video that they can just sit back and watch you eat your popcorn, or fuck your wife on the sofa.
The truth is, that the only way to win, is to indeed fight tyranny. Each day you wake up, you must realize your not living in a world of Freedom, but instead a world of Control. Each day you walk down the street, or drive in your car, pay attention to your surroundings and open your eyes - open your eyes to all of the sensors and the cameras and the laws and the cops and then you'll just start to realize what is really happening. The preparation and the system of control that has been installed.
Furthermore, the real shitty thing is that people all over the world think that we Americans aren't going to do anything about this. The sad truth is, that everyone knows it's going to happen. You have to understand the real reason we went into Libya, the real reason we are involved in Egypt and Syria. It's to set a precedent. That precedent is this. United Nations goes in and stands up for Government or stands up for People. We have set a precedent. Our Government has signed laws into effect during Obamas administration that will give United Nations to come in here.
Precedent has been made. Control has been asserted. They setup school shootings, they setup movie theatre shootings. They want to take our guns, they want to make us broke, they want to choke us out - so we can't fight back.
They have another thing coming. We might be silent, but we are great in numbers and were wiser than you think, we are the normal middle class, we are the richer upper class, we are factions of the army and normal people in the government, we are the Americans who wake up every day and know that something is going to happen and when it does we know what to do. Take 2 down for my 1, that's all that matters.
"I would rather die on my feet than serve on my knees" - Emiliano Zapata
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