Chomsky: Spying Does Not Protect You

[midnight]

Chomsky told the Guardian—the publication that initially broke the NSA secret spying story—that the snooping itself constitutes a wrongdoing on a wide scale:

Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy – which is their own population.
Chomsky insisted to the Guardian that the close partnership between the U.S. government and corporations that specialize in spying technologies exposes a political structure that does not represent the interests of the U.S. people:

They [governments and corporations] take whatever is available, and in no time it is being used against us, the population. Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.



http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/19-3

[Gregorian]

1. We're letting a speck dictate the whole.

Why the fuck isn't this man on national tv! It's proof that there is absolutely no journalism. America is broken.

News is primarily a display of who we are not. As a rule we are coordinated, cooperative, loving, forgiving, and all of the good things one never hears on the news. When a car crashes, a person is murdered, or any of the infinitesimally rare things happens, it's news.

Everything is distorted. And some of us are just foolish enough to be scared and fearful. I am not.

[RedCappedBandit]

3. Chomsky recieves far too much flack, even here on DU

It is truly a shame

[sally5050]

4. We do have Progressive TV it's called Grittv.org

here is a link to Laura Flanders great interview of Chomsky.
http://www.grittv.org/


Mainstream media wouldn't understand a man of his great intelligence, wouldn't even know how to question him.

** Support great progressive TV.. support grittv.org

[HooptieWagon]

2. Precisely. Spying protects those doing the spying.

Claiming the targets of spying are the beneficiaries of it is Orwellian-speak.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. We Can Hear You Now

We're all Germans now

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, midnight.

[midnight]

9. Your welcome....

[kitt6]

7. Unemployment

Hurts!

[midnight]

8. Any transparency of bad conduct becomes the target of national security..

"This is just the same playbook that U.S. government officials have been using for the last five decades whenever anything gets done that brings small amounts of transparency to the bad conduct that they do in the dark. They immediately accuse those who brought that transparency of jeopardizing national security. They try and scare the American public into believing that they’ve been placed at risk and that the only way they can stay safe is to trust the people in power to do whatever it is they want to do without any kinds of constraints, accountability or light of any kind."

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/18-7