Freitag, 30. Mai 2014

The point of it is the person who says, I'm not doing anything wrong, doesn't get to decide what the government thinks is wrong or wrongful thinking, wrongful politics, wrongful cultural beliefs.

Hier packt Kirk Wiebe, ehemaliger NSA-Anlayst und Whistleblower himself, 2 sehr wichtige und wesentliche Punkte auf den Tisch, die beim Snowden-Interview leider unter denselbigen gefallen waren:

DESVARIEUX: So, Kirk, I want to get your reaction to the Snowden interview. Did you actually even learn anything from the interview? And if you did, what did you learn?


WIEBE: Jessica, I think Brian Williams missed an opportunity to raise an issue that has not been broadly or widely discussed, and that is the fact that NSA had information that could have prevented 9/11. This is before any Patriot Act, before any terrorist surveillance program on behalf of the president and Cheney and all of this stuff. If [you] go back, push the clock back to before 9/11, we actually had the information. But we didn't know we had it in one instance. And in another instance, we did know we had it, but didn't report it to anybody, didn't tell anybody. Drake has made that very clear. And they have said so publicly. He was there at NSA right after 9/11. He was there. And Binney and myself and Loomis retired, but Drake was still there. And at some point, he participated in the Saxby Chambliss 9/11 committee that looked into what went wrong and told that committee that NSA had the data to prevent 9/11 and didn't share it. Why you wouldn't share that information I don't know, but I think he should have raised that as an issue.

DESVARIEUX: Alright. And in the interview, they also raised the issue, this argument that a lot of people make, which is that, you know, why do we even care if NSA is violating our privacy if we have nothing to hide? Essentially, if this is going to make us safer, then let them do their job, let them find the terrorists, and if they're going to read my emails, record my phone calls, what's wrong with that?

WIEBE: Okay, it's very wrong. It presumes that the government only does good. There's an automatic assumption in that statement that says, I can trust the government completely, when the truth is NSA has operated unconstitutionally for 60 percent of the time it has existed, since the late 1940s--60 percent. Everybody must remember the reason we have been intelligence committee in both houses of Congress is specifically due to the fact that NSA was caught spying on Americans back in the '50s and '60s, including such people as Senator Church himself, who led the Church committee that formed the two intelligence committees as steps to rein in the NSA. In other words, this is déjà vu. We've been there, done that, and it didn't work. And now we're about to do it again. And we keep repeating that kind of behavior, we keep trusting.

The point of it is the person who says, I'm not doing anything wrong, doesn't get to decide what the government thinks is wrong or wrongful thinking, wrongful politics, wrongful cultural beliefs. You don't get to decide. Someone else does.

Nicht zu vergessen die ganzen outgesourcten Handlanger und Zulieferer und vor allem "die Schöneheit der Maschinen - von "Government" kann hier ja wohl überhaupt gar nicht mehr die Rede sein!

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