any questions?...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/25/weeki ... nd&emc=rss
from the article...
Thirty years ago, Senator Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who was then chairman of the select committee on intelligence, investigated the agency and came away stunned.
"That capability at any time could be turned around on the American people," he said in 1975, "and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide."
He added that if a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. "could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back."
its over...
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Freakaloin
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its over...
a defining attribute of a government is that it has a monopoly on the legitimate exercise of violence...
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+JuggerNaut+
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+JuggerNaut+ wrote:that doesn't hammer it home like this does:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4200371561
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:that doesn't hammer it home like this does:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4200371561