Monday, June 10, 2013

The Most Important Thing Edward Snowden Has Said

The most important thing NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has said comes at the end of his interview with Glenn Greenwald. In the final minutes of his interview he makes clear that the infrastructure is in place to bring tyranny onto the people of the United States. Only a switch has to be flipped, he correctly calls it, "turnkey tyranny."


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  1. Wired Magazine
    "The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)"
    by James Bamford
    03.15.12
    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1
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    Sitting in a restaurant not far from NSA headquarters, the place where he spent nearly 40 years of his life, [William] Binney held his thumb and forefinger close together. “We are, like, that far from a turnkey totalitarian state,” he says.
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  2. A backlash is building against corporate and government surveillance.
    http://www.hugeinc.com/ideas/perspectives/turn-away-peak-surveillance-emergence-darknet-and-why-it-matters-marketers

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