Surviving Capitalism (Not) : One Nation, Under Surveillance: U.S. Government Now Monitoring Your Phone Calls

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, June 6, 2013

One Nation, Under Surveillance: U.S. Government Now Monitoring Your Phone Calls

Click here to access article by Pam Martens from Wall Street on Parade.

This is really not news, but now that a "respected" liberal publication has printed a "top secret" memo documenting this fact, it is now public knowledge. You can be sure that the Guardian or Glenn Greenwald will not be prosecuted as whistle-blowers. As part of the establishment (the One Percent) they no doubt got clearance to make this public. In fact, it is likely that the directors of the One Percent deliberately leaked this document because in their overwhelming arrogance they want to let people (us) know that they are doing this. I wonder why. Could it be that they fear us? And they want to intimidate us?

Of course it's not only phone calls, it's emails, stationary public surveillance cameras, drone cameras, DNA testing, etc, too. It is "full-spectrum" surveillance.