thanks indeed. Now I have a

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on the bottom of the page and I can't get at the last comment response. It was probably just another bullshit response anyway but hey . . . .

While we are on the topic of black bars . . .

do any of you DUMB FUKERS get it yet?

The whole point of the Snowden Exercise is to move the NSA data collection op into the Private Sector.

what? did you think these fukers were kidding when they called for PRIVATIZATION?

take another fuking look

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They have gone to extreme lengths and demonstrated a high degree of patience in their effort to

PRIVATIZE THE POST OFFICE,

and that is just the fuking POST OFFICE

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wtf

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So what will happen is most likely something like this: The NSA will discontinue their data collection, instead the phone companies will take some measure of control over a preexisting data farm, continue to save the data, where it will remain, under the control of INDIVIDUALS within the private sector - and that data will remain in a status that will beg for

PROFITIZATION

And we will pay these private sector data accumulators handsome sums to maintain that data where it may be reviewed by the government after obtaining a court order or by anyone in the private sector with the proper credentials and sufficient sums of CASH . . .

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My point is that it is much worse than pointless to protest against the current NSA practice and do absolutely nothing about that private sector data collection - a practice they are firmly committed to and about which you are permitted little or no input.

Why is this something other than simply a pointless exercise?

Because PRIVATIZED DATA COLLECTION of this scope is virtually certain to usher in a whole new era of globalized fascism unlike anything the world has ever known.

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Just consider:

Anyone who uses any of a variety of credit or preferred customer swipe cards at checkout while making purchases has their entire transaction recorded - that transaction is stored along with millions of others, every single day.

About this you say nothing.

A set of transactions that include milk purchases can be examined - for example. From the purchases alone one may deduce if and how many children may be in a single household, simply on the basis of milk purchases.

That data set may further reveal both gender and role model preferences of each individual child on the basis of lunch box or other similar purchases - those usually occur in August.

A further examination of the milk purchase again will reveal location when one examines that milk purchase that is occasionally out of sync with the rest of the overall pattern of behavior - and why? Because - it is a baseline staple that is subject to spoilage - which means if you have to have it when you are out then you have to have it when you are out - and this will be true if you purchase milk for consumption by children.

And finally:

that occasional purchase will occur within three miles of home.

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Yes, and it does bear repeating:

that occasional purchase will occur within three miles of home.

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now consider very carefully:

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If you happen to be of a conservative bent, do you really want someone like me, within three miles of your children?

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Here we have only examined two purchases, one of which has been examined from two angles.

I could engage in some of the most horrendous behavior you can imagine, with little more than access to the data . . . .

I can assure you, had I the resources, I would, most certainly, reshape this nation.

Given that it is possible - it remains virtually certain - It has already been done. The only question is -

At what point will the public actually begin to take notice?

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WILL IT THEN BE TOO LATE

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