When Good Men Failed To Act (satire)

IMO 911 happened is because nobody from the CIA to the FBI to the POTUS acted on information to stop it from happening.

Instead they let it happen, so that they could invade Afghanistan and Iraq, illegally detain terrorists at Gitmo and other highly questionable acts, all in the name of fighting terrorism.

Yet there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Thank you very much for the smoke and mirrors, Bush and Cheney.

Now, Obama is using drones to kill terrorists in Pakistan and Yemen, including US citizens because that is cheaper than capturing them and subjecting them to a trial.

Soon the world would become a sousveillance world where those in power will control who can use cameras and when they can be used.

As well, children are being surreptitiously "trained" to act before a camera on Younow so that they will either parlay it into a broadcasting career or failing that, a webcam career.

Our privacy rights are constantly threatened, and yet everyone who catches the bug wants to broadcast, giving up their right to privacy for fame and to make a quick buck.

All because good men in high place fail to act!

Now they plan to make up for it in Canada by proposing a law that has the potential to create a massive surveillance network in Canada.

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Originally posted on May 23, 2014 1:26 AM PDT

Reference:

Sousveillance: plusmagazine.com/2014/10/07/sousveillance-surveillance-kind-future-want/

Bill C-51 Would Create a Massive Surveillance Network Affecting All Canadians: http://www.techvibes.com/blog/bill-c-51-surveillance-network-2015-03-18

An Open Letter to CSIS

Dear CSIS

Since you are monitoring my smartphone and my computer via metadata and email as part of a Canadian security act, it's your obligation to keep me safe from harm.

I know you know where I live. The purpose of Big Brother is not just to spy on me to protect national security; it's also to protect each citizen who submits to such scrutiny from harm.

This is what Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms legally obligates the Government of Canada to do: the right to life, liberty, and security of the person. As part of the Canadian government, that too is part of your mandate.

That's what we pay our taxes for.

Even in A Free World, The State Will Spy on the People

Regarding the growing anger of Americans who just heard that NSA had access to metadata of Verizon customers, I can't see this as a big deal.

For Canada's CSIS has been spying on Canadians for just as long, but our spooks won't disclose anything for fear of compromising the sovereignty of Canada to foreign intelligence.

We won't even know the full details of the VIA rail bombing case currently before the courts because it would reveal the extent that the State goes to, spying on the People.

However, as a Canadian, I have nothing to hide because my right to privacy trumps the People's "need to know", which is daily manufactured by mass media without my consent.