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NSA Secretly Continues Merkel Surveillance

posted by mattie_p on Tuesday February 25 2014, @02:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-not-directly-spying-on-you dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

"German language magazine 'Bild am Sonntag' reports that, in response to Obama's recent order to stop spying on Angela Merkel and other heads of 'friendly' states, the NSA has instead ramped up spying on everybody Merkel communicates with. Cory Doctorow points out that this action demonstrates that the NSA is out of control and deliberately disobeying a presidential order with a level of duplicity worthy of a four year-old."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by mojo chan on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:42AM

    by mojo chan (266) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @08:42AM (#6575)

    Pissed as hell but still not doing much apparently. Where are the mass protests? Where are the political alternatives at the next election? You can make excuses about the powers that be crushing all dissent and maintaining the two party system, but that just means you failed to act when it would have been easier and are now required to take more extreme measures to protect your liberty.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Blackmoore on Tuesday February 25 2014, @12:35PM

    by Blackmoore (57) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @12:35PM (#6717) Journal

    How can you protest? If you take a day off from work and show up to peacefully protest; you get tagged by the snoops, bagged from work (because the government told them you were up to no good), and end up homeless.

    protesting won't get real until the majority of people are unemployed and starving.

    until then they remain happy with bread and circuses.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @11:34PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 25 2014, @11:34PM (#7097)

      until then they remain happy with bread and circuses.

      Corollary: If you remove the bread and circuses, the people will become unhappy.
      Extension: If people are unhappy, they will protest meaningfully.
      Extension #2: If people protest meaningfully, change can be effected.