Friday, June 23, 2017
Checking myself
I've been giving myself credit for knowing a long time ago that NSA monitors everything. Is this justifiable? Did I pick up the idea from Snowden, or did I really know it before Snowden came along?
Reassuringly, I knew it earlier. From a December 2005 entry:
After a couple days of yammering about NSA surveillance, the internal enemies have dropped the SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED facade. Everyone who keeps up with politics and technology has known for many years that NSA listens to anything it finds interesting, so nobody in DC is truly shocked by this. The enemy's true complaint now becomes clear. Aside from the overarching fact that they want the terrorists to win, they specifically hate to see authority in the hands of elected officials.
The key point for the enemy is that a JUDGE ought to be controlling everything. No mystery: Judges are trained in Leninist law schools and selected by Leninist Senators with no objections from chickenshit cowardass 'Republican' 'politicians'. Judges thus form the most reliable and powerful division in the anti-civilization army.
When authority leaves the hands of a judge, it falls into the hands of elected officials. And a few elected officials (including Bush, for all his faults) are loyal Americans who want to see civilization win this war.
Well, I was LETHALLY wrong about Bush, but I was right about NSA. Direct knowledge is always better than guessing and theorizing.
What incident was I bitching about? No way to tell. I was slow to adopt the bloggy habit of hreffing, so a lot of those early entries are 'free-floating' with no recoverable context. 
Labels: coot-proofing, Metrology
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