In the wake of the Snowden Revelations it's all moot.
Now it's time to stop useless finger pointing and trying to fix the blame. Especially since it should be fairly obvious by now that everybody was in on it - including the American public itself for their continuing refusal to face yet another "inconvenient truth."
Who really cares what's been done? Or by whom at this point. The big question - the real question - is what we're going to do about this nightmare we've allowed to become real.
-40hz
Move to Ancapistan?
But cereally, what can most people do? Vote? Hahaha! Like that will change anything - it only makes things worse. Lobby? Yeah, that works real well - if you're from K Street and have deep pockets. Protest? Sure - the free speech zone is way over there on the other side of the cow field in the valley behind the briar bushes.
I suppose that people could start opting out of using anything used to spy on them, e.g. your supermarket loyalty card where they collect data on you about what you eat then sell it to your insurance company so they can raise your rates for eating too many
Twinkies Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. (I already told you that I was being cerealous!) But I really doubt most people are even remotely aware of the kind or depth of surveillance conducted against them. Most people don't have time to even become aware that there is a problem - they're too busy struggling to survive. (Gee... what a convenient coincidence?)
The people behind all this are smart. Extremely smart. They are polymaths that put us the smartest of us here to shame. They're 100 steps ahead, and we're wearing an albatross around our necks. They have a massive front line of soldiers to fall for them. At best, you can shoot a messenger by having 1 thrown in prison. Better have a metaphorical machine gun. Can enough messengers be shot?
Ok, got my poop-on-the-parade out...
I think there is hope, but there is that question...
What we're going to do about this nightmare we've allowed to become real.
-40hz
- Help inform people - friends, relatives, family, whoever will listen.
- Opt out as much as possible.
- Use TOR.
- Use a VPN. (Pay in bitcoin for better anonymity.)
- Use fake email accounts.
- Use fake names & birth dates. (Keep track of these things in something like Keepass.)
- Cancel any subscriptions/services you don't need/use, particularly from large corporates.
- Stop purchasing anything you don't need to do what little you can to starve the beast:
- - keep your money out of the system as much as possible
- - buy local & spend local
- - replace big brand names from large companies with products from small companies
- - get rid of fiat in favour of assets (when possible).
I could go on, but I'd be digressing quite a bit, e.g. next on the list is stuff like planting a garden, visit the Basement where we discuss these kinds of things
, etc.
I see a sick and diseased system, and the only cure is to get away from it as much as possible. Starve the beast. Withdraw and let it starve and die and alone. Then use the rotting carcass as mulch for fertilizer.
They don't care what your opinion is. In a recent speech the POTUS basically told people to f*(& off, shut up, and take it. They're going to do whatever they damn well please.
Then there's the bigger question... What else are these thugs up to, and what are we going to do about those things? This is just the tip of the iceberg. The first waft of rot and decay that most people are smelling. Hopefully the stench will wake some up.
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