The NSA’s Own ‘6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon’
If the NSA is harvesting data 2-3 points from everyone (and yes, they are), they have a map way more intricate that anything we could ever collect on our own. They know everything about everyone who has ever talked to anyone who has ever talked to anyone you have ever talked to. Think about that.
English: Kevin Bacon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In perspective, 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon only requires “a link” at some point in two people’s lives, nothing more substantial than a name in the credits. Yet, the NSA is collecting data 3 people away from everyone for every communication or other ‘link’. Everyone.
Oh, I’m sure that many will interpret the phrase “terrorist suspects” to mean only the million or so people on the public terrorist watchlist, but that doesn’t actually include the other “suspects” such as those who support the Constitution – you know, like every law enforcement officer, military member and duly elected representative in America is sworn to do.
Do you bank at BofA, where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of the recent Boston Bombings also banks? That’s a “link.”
Do you use Facebook, where there are literally dozens of Al Qaeda affiliated groups? That’s a “link.”
Have you visited Twitter or Youtube, where the digital terror group (if you accept the FBI’s terminology) ‘Anonymous’ shares information about their activities? That’s a “link,” too.
Or, admittedly my favorite example, did you vote for President Barack Obama, who has provided weapons to militant terrorists abroad and personally signed off on the sale of guns used in well over 200 Mexican murders? That’s a “link.”
Oh, did you think you had to have actual contact with these people in order for it to count? Bah. Clearly you’re not familiar with how the law is abused in America today. Each time someone tells me I’m blowing things out of proportion with my pessimistic view of government, I send them the following links:
- Botched Paramilitary Police Raids: While the data is extensive, the question is really why any paramilitary-style police raids happen in America in the first place. The same government that drones civilians in countries across the globe, and stores the content of every phone call we’ve made for the last decade can’t be bothered to pick up a suspect on the street instead of beating in his neighbors door for refusing to allow them to occupy his home to spy on the house next door.
- National Police Misconduct Newsfeed: This daily newswire reports on the abuse du jour. Read the last week or two then tell me that the same government that used to help get cats out of trees is still trustworthy enough to be allowed to track your every action, movement and communication.
I read an article yesterday from the NY Daily News that tried so very hard to dispel the theory that the NSA is the American Stasi. His reasoning is perfectly sound, as long as you are willing to bury your head in the ground and believe every lie told to you.
The Stasi only wishes they had the ability to track and record every single movement and communication, along with legal authority to ‘disappear you‘ without judicial oversight. Where the Stasi failed, our government has not only succeeded, but excelled. Why stop with targeting of those who are actually intending to do ill – heck, even after multiple warnings the Boston Marathon will never be the same. Meanwhile, Shia LeBeouf tells it like it was…OVER FIVE YEARS AGO:
Surely they don’t think the ever-goofy Shia is a terrorist? Must be the hair, right? Are you fed up yet?
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