Monday, June 10, 2013

Here We Go: "Most Americans back NSA tracking phone records"

Are we being set up for a more open aggressive tracking by the government? I have no reason to question the sincerity of Glenn Greenwald and his desire to break open the secretive tracking of Americans by the United States government. However, I am very suspicious of the manner in which MSM jumped on the story and pushed it so hard. Now we have this from WaPo:
A large majority of Americans say the federal government should focus on investigating possible terrorist threats even if personal privacy is compromised, and most support the blanket tracking of telephone records in an effort to uncover terrorist activity, according to a new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll.

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  1. And we should "trust" WaPo because???

    Scumbags one and all...

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  2. 14 people at the NSA were polled.

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  3. O'Reilly's unscientific internet poll:

    Based on what you know so far, how do you characterize NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden?

    Hero 83%
    Traitor 17%
    1967 total votes

    http://www.billoreilly.com/poll-center

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    1. Hearing Bill on NBC's today, ( not that i want to give the impression i watch it) he took the opportunity to blame Snowden and Barry's White House.

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  4. Ahhh I missed it the first time through - it's a "Pew" study. Sorta explains the horrible stench. P-eeeeeeuuuuuwww...

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  5. I harbor some of the same reservations the blogoshere and MSM are not usually on the same issue in almost the same characterization. It feels like a great set up to discredit the people against the security state. Hope I am wrong.

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  6. Frankly, who gives a damn what 'A large majority of Americans' say? The American people, like most people, are corrupt, whether it's due to their warmongering, or the increasing rate of adultery in this country.

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    1. Because they rule us through democracy and will continue to because there's no way for a minority to overpower a majority. If a hundred people in a room all try to beat up one guy, it doesn't matter if it's an initiation of force and a violation of the guy's natural rights. He's still gonna get his ass kicked.

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  7. This is derived from the same lie that Feinstein and Rogers, who sat together in an interview condemning Snowden's actions, said about Greenwald "not having a clue" about how PRISM works and that this is not a "whistle blower" case but treason.

    This is from the same lie that Mr. Wenzel posted of that military professor that was trying to make good with the Establishment so he could go on TV.

    I have met some of these folks who support these actions, but I have to say they only support it because of Obama. If it were Bush, total different story. It's like they didn't get the memo or missed the culture change that most people are not supporting state leaders and the two party system. It's just not "cool" to defend or support Obama (or Bush).

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  8. And how many supported slavery, segregation, etc.? Since when has doing what is right had anything to do with majority opinion?

    All this does is highlight the failure of political democracy.

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  9. The news report on the radio this morning said 56% were in favor being spied on to be safe, 46% were against. Apparently 2% voted twice. And you got to love the framing. I guess if they would have had this in place during the Boston Marathon, things would have been different. Oh wait....

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  10. Their questionnaire is probably the same logic from the "majority of Americans support gun-control" polling.

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