No matter how much information is leaked or how far up the chain of power it goes or how widespread and utterly unjustified something like this is, it never seems to matter. And the reason can be clearly be gleaned just from reading the comments posted in places such as this.
Rather than mentally dealing with the actual issue, looking at the evidence, accepting the logical ramifications and deciding on a course of personal action, whether to decide that this kind of thing is necessary and desirable for one's personal security and safety and thus resolve to do nothing, or that it is decidedly not and join together with others who can agree to do something aimed at either exposing this more or stopping it (and DON'T mock me by saying "grab your guns LOLOLOL"--all it does is show you to be an idiot who clearly doesn't really care about contributing anything useful or productive to such a discussion), *instead* people fight over trying to shield their favorite political parties (members of both of whom are complicit in it) from wrongdoing, desperately trying to avoid sounding like one of the politics discussion taboo "out groups" like "conspiracy theoristssss" (don't wanna be called one of THEM do you?), making a big joke out of it which has the effect of desensitizing oneself and others to something that should probably be taken more seriously (after all the agents responsible for DOING this to us seem to take our porn, searches, chats and such rather seriously), claim that somehow this another right wing sabotage attempt on poor Obama by racists (as opposed to Yet Another Press Scandal going back to Fast & Furious, Benghazi, the IRS targeting of political opponents and now this--and I don't want to hear how it's "not his fault"--no it's not entirely his fault, but he is the current executive and just how like you would charge a restaurant manager if his establishment was serving shit and being unsafe, you call the executive to task for not managing the government he executes for), etc.
It galls me how no one can seem to fully agree on what seems like are fairly obvious wrongs, even when I think (whether it be drones, surveillance, FBI targeting protesters, etc.), now THIS will be something everyone can point to and say "enough!" or...something!
Nope, instead the circus just goes on and the powers that be can and will do whatever they want to further their interests and gains. And far too few meaningfully and effective oppose them because we are all so busy arguing with each other over it.
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Date: 13/6/13 13:42 (UTC)No matter how much information is leaked or how far up the chain of power it goes or how widespread and utterly unjustified something like this is, it never seems to matter. And the reason can be clearly be gleaned just from reading the comments posted in places such as this.
Rather than mentally dealing with the actual issue, looking at the evidence, accepting the logical ramifications and deciding on a course of personal action, whether to decide that this kind of thing is necessary and desirable for one's personal security and safety and thus resolve to do nothing, or that it is decidedly not and join together with others who can agree to do something aimed at either exposing this more or stopping it (and DON'T mock me by saying "grab your guns LOLOLOL"--all it does is show you to be an idiot who clearly doesn't really care about contributing anything useful or productive to such a discussion), *instead* people fight over trying to shield their favorite political parties (members of both of whom are complicit in it) from wrongdoing, desperately trying to avoid sounding like one of the politics discussion taboo "out groups" like "conspiracy theoristssss" (don't wanna be called one of THEM do you?), making a big joke out of it which has the effect of desensitizing oneself and others to something that should probably be taken more seriously (after all the agents responsible for DOING this to us seem to take our porn, searches, chats and such rather seriously), claim that somehow this another right wing sabotage attempt on poor Obama by racists (as opposed to Yet Another Press Scandal going back to Fast & Furious, Benghazi, the IRS targeting of political opponents and now this--and I don't want to hear how it's "not his fault"--no it's not entirely his fault, but he is the current executive and just how like you would charge a restaurant manager if his establishment was serving shit and being unsafe, you call the executive to task for not managing the government he executes for), etc.
It galls me how no one can seem to fully agree on what seems like are fairly obvious wrongs, even when I think (whether it be drones, surveillance, FBI targeting protesters, etc.), now THIS will be something everyone can point to and say "enough!" or...something!
Nope, instead the circus just goes on and the powers that be can and will do whatever they want to further their interests and gains. And far too few meaningfully and effective oppose them because we are all so busy arguing with each other over it.