Ted Rall for August 05, 2013
August 02, 2013
August 07, 2013
Transcript:
"When the NSA identifies a suspect, it can look not just at his phone records, but also the records of everyone he calls, everyone who calls those people and everyone who calls those people. (Man: Can you all hear me now?) If the average person called 40 unique people three-hop analysis would allow the government to mine the records of 2.5 million Americans when investigating one suspected terrorist." -AP, 7-31-13. The logical culmination of such "gotta connect all the dots" thinking. (Woman: Some dude stole my bike.) (Man: Arrest everyone, search their houses and let go the one's without bikes.
Liam Burns almost 11 years ago
My country died after 9-11-2001.
Michael Peterson Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Paranoia aside, the basis is wrong. The person with the stolen bike would say “I think Joe stole my bike,” they would pick up Joe and everyone he knows. .If you’re going to be demented, be rational about it.
jpsilver almost 11 years ago
Somehow, this is all Kevin Bacon’s fault!
Motivemagus almost 11 years ago
Living in a national security state where all your emails and phone calls are monitored by low-level functionaries without cause and you can be thrown into prison as a “terrorist” without recourse? I’d say that rather hurts people. Go back and read 1984.
Mephistopheles almost 11 years ago
This Cartoon is Spot on!!!!
This is exactly what America has become – A national security state.
Where the people who cower under their beds afraid of terrorists are made to feel better by taking away the rights of average taxpaying citizens.
Snowden was a hero!!!!Obama is a crook!!!
Fourcrows almost 11 years ago
I think the one good thing coming from this whole NSA issue is now the Patriot Act and the surveillance of US citizens in the name of security from global terrorism is hated by the right wing also now. I would love to look at an alternate universe where either McCain won in 2008 or Romney won in 2012 and see if the right wing pundits would have anything negative to say about it then, or if it is just because Obama is President that they made it an issue…
Kenric Speed Premium Member almost 11 years ago
“Kill them all, God will know his own.” Arnaud Amalric, Béziers, France, 1209
ggauss Premium Member almost 11 years ago
It’s now 2013! Perhaps you would like to catch up with the times or should we talk about Watergate?
Brutatowski almost 11 years ago
It seems that all the paranoid writers from the past – aldous huxley, George Orwell, Philip k. Dick – weren’t paranoid enough about the future.