Thursday, October 24, 2013
Why scandal?
Latest NSA 'scandal' is listening to the calls of Reichsführerin Merkel. Why is this a 'scandal'? Much as I enjoy the piling on, and much as I've been waiting for 30 years to see if anyone else in the world would FUCKING NOTICE what NSA does, I can't join the pile this time.
Look. If you started a spy agency from scratch in a supposedly non-dictatorial country, you'd ferociously avoid spying on your own people, because that's the quickest way to lose your credibility. You'd also avoid spying on ordinary people in other countries.
You'd focus on the LEADERS OF HOSTILE COUNTRIES, and the LEADERS OF COUNTRIES THAT HAD HISTORICALLY MADE TROUBLE. This is EXACTLY WHAT SPIES ARE SUPPOSED TO WATCH.
And your list of COUNTRIES THAT HISTORICALLY MADE TROUBLE would start with Germany. You'd observe that every time the Krauts unite in one nation they start stomping stomping stomping stomping stomping stomping stomping stomping to take over the world by extreme force. You'd observe that Krauts reunited in 1990, and since then they've been stomping all over the rest of Europe. Therefore you'd want to keep a VERY SHARP EYE on Kraut leaders. You'd want to tap Reichsführerin Merkel's phone.
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