MOST AMERICANS UNFAZED BY NSA METADATA COLLECTION
Washington - A recent Gallup poll concerning National Security
Agency plans to gather massive amounts of metadata revealed
little or no concern among a wide majority of Americans,
who had little or no idea what "metadata" even is.
Mrs Harriet Luckowski of Ashtabula, Ohio, who frequently
confuses Windows Explorer with Internet Explorer, appeared
to confuse "metadata" with "the human genome" and expressed
a concern that the government might be trying to cross-breed
her DNA with that of aliens.
Billy Belavanaki of South Bend, India, recalled that "Data"
was the name of a pale-skinned android on "Star-Trek, the
Next Generation." According to Billy, the prefix "meta-"
was probably like the prefixes for "Super-Man" or "Ultra-Boy"
so must be referring to a kind of "Super-Android".
General Keith B. Alexander, the head of the N.S.A. and the
commander of the military's Cyberborg Command, reassured the
public that the intentions of the NSA were honorable, and that
only people with evil metadata needed to worry about hiding
their metadata.
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To Boston Globe:
Probably of more relevance than the Rolling Stone cover
is the question of why the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security
fell down on the job after a clear warning that the Tsarnaev
brothers were flirting with radical Islam.
No wonder that conspiracy theorists get notions about
“false flags”. What is wrong with this picture, in an environment
where airports are scanning your “junk” with invasive scans
and forbidding 2.5 oz of hand-cream or bottled water?
What is wrong with the picture, when other news articles
concern NSA tapping phones and collecting metadata,
wholesale and without concern for warrants?
Why has there not been an article to question why
the FBI ignored the Tsarnaev brothers, yet spent
millions of dollars spying on, and infiltrating the Occupy
movement, which was committed to non-violence?
Could it be a case of distorted priorities, more concerned
with the sensibilities of crooked bankers and Wall Street
moneybags who are politically well-connected?
One of the reasons for the frequent lambasting of
“corporate media” is that they seem to have a similar
tendency, showing a penchant to fawn over, trump up and
give free publicity to the “Tea Party” while condescending
to the “Occupy Movement”, all of which is revealing a
bias in favor of right-wing Big-Money over the interests of
an increasingly squeezed middle and working class.
Where is the outrage? Not in your articles, it seems,
but here, voicelessly trying to express itself, and
glaring at you.
Sincerely, Tom Keske
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