Tag Archives: terrorism

Should we pursue perjury charges against the intelligence officials who swore to us that our calls and emails were not being monitored?

By Mark | June 16, 2013

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 [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also 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 | 17 Comments

StopWatching.us, powered by Mozilla, seeks to catalyze a Big Data resistance movement

By Mark | June 12, 2013

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 [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also 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, thoughtcrime, War on Terror | 4 Comments

I heard someone today say, “We know that he did it. We’ve seen the video. We don’t need a trial.”

By Mark | April 21, 2013

I should preface what I’m about to say by noting that I’m not a conspiracy theorist… at least when it comes to last week’s bombing in Boston. I suspect it’s probably the case, given what I’ve read thus far, that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carried out the attack that cost three individuals, one of whom [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized | Also tagged bombs, Boston, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, innocent until proven guilty, putting innocent men to death, surveillance, surveillance culture, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Timothy McVeigh | 54 Comments

Seeing in the Boston bombing though the filter of preexisting prejudice

By Mark | April 16, 2013

I wasn’t going to comment on yesterday’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing until more of the facts were known, but, as I’m sitting here tonight, reading the analysis of folks like Alex Jones, who thinks that it was an inside job perpetrated by the government, and Fox News contributor Erik Rush, who thinks that it’s clearly [...]

Posted in Mark's Life, Other, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Atlanta, bombers, bombs, Boston, Boston Marathon, conspiracy theories, Erik Rush, false flag, FOX News, Islamophobia, mass murder, Oklahoma City, Olympic bombing, patriot movement, Patriots' Day, Richard Jewell, Taliban, Time Square, Timothy McVeigh | 72 Comments

The manufactured Republican outrage over the attack of our consulate in Benghazi is not only disingenuous but morally reprehensible

By Mark | November 16, 2012

As I mentioned yesterday, the Republicans, in the wake of last week’s crushing defeat at the polls, are desperately looking for something to cling to. They’re looking for an opportunity to delay introspection, come across to the American people once again as forceful, and, most importantly, weaken the President as he attempts to make the [...]