CONTEXT: Former Vice President Dick Cheney, proving definitively that trials are a pointless waste of time and resources, came up from his pit full of freshly-harvested child hearts yesterday to announce on Fox News that he’d found NSA whistleblower Eric Snowden to be guilty of treason. Snowden, to his credit, then took to the internet [...]
When Tom Dodd, beloved local teacher and editor of Ypsilanti’s Depot Town Rag, passed away earlier this month at the age of 78, his friends gathered at Frenchie’s to share memories and remember his influential life over beers… And, judging from the words on this plaque which just recently showed up in Ypsilanti’s Riverside Park, [...]
As you may recall, last March, months before the recent bombshell allegations of domestic spying were made by 29-year old NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in sworn testimony before a Senate subcommittee, stated that the NSA does not “wittingly” collect any data at all on American citizens. Here’s video of [...]
Also posted in Civil Liberties | Tagged big data, blowjobs, domestic spying, eavesdropping, Edward Snowden, impeachment, intelligence, James Clapper, Jerrold Nadler, Keith Alexander, Kevvin A, NSA, perjury, privacy, security state, surveillance, Susan Collins, terrorism | Mozilla, the non-profit organization responsible for the popular Firefox web browser, has apparently stepped into the fray to lead the protest against our government’s recently uncovered campaign to aggressively monitor, record and mine the private communications of law-abiding American citizens. Saying, “We don’t want an Internet where everything we do is secretly tracked or logged [...]
Also posted in Civil Liberties | Tagged Alex Fowler, big data, data mining, domestic spying, Edward Snowden, FISA, internet, Mozilla, National Security Agency, NSA, Patriot Act, petitions, PIPA, PRISM, privacy, PROTECT IP Act, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, StopWatching.Us, surveillance, surveillance culture, terrorism, thoughtcrime, War on Terror | 
