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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: 2) by metamonkey on Tuesday February 25 2014, @11:28AM

    by metamonkey (3174) on Tuesday February 25 2014, @11:28AM (#6661)

    I think your confusion stems from a mistaken idea that the founders gave a shit about the rights of the public. Those rights were for the 10% or so of people who were white, male landowners. Women, blacks and poor whites could eat shit and die. And it hasn't really changed in 200 years. The name of the game has always been placate the masses with some seeming acquiescence, then plot some other means to achieve the same goal. And that goal is always the same: control the masses, preserve the status quo.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:36PM (#7596)

    Confusion might also stem from the mistaken idea that all of the founders were in unanimous agreement about everything. Sometimes real change takes small steps in series rather than one giant leap. For example, I've heard that the original draft of the US Constitution abolished slavery, but couldn't get enough signatories in that form, so they changed it. Don't forget, especially if you're from the US, that preserving the status quo is not why the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights were written.