Amen! Incredible amount of suffering caused by a mere handful of severely damaged but privileged people. Those responsible should experience extraordinary rendition and trials/convictions for their crimes in international court. It is clear no one in our government is willing to bring them to justice; maybe someone from the outside will.
One thing that strikes me in this article is the assumption that any or even most of this spying is still focused on "terrorism." Can you imagine what influence various private surveillance companies now have on politicians, judges, even the president. Stealing company secrets for their own enrichment, bribing those who's dirty secrets they have uncovered...the list of possibilities goes on. This will not end well, but it will end.
The saddest thing for me at least, is that we live on a beautiful planet with endless possibilities for acting with grace and having pleasant lives, but the type of persons who are addicted to accumulate power and money always seem to rise to the top and grind down the rest of us.
Amen! Incredible amount of suffering caused by a mere handful of severely damaged but privileged people. Those responsible should experience extraordinary rendition and trials/convictions for their crimes in international court. It is clear no one in our government is willing to bring them to justice; maybe someone from the outside will.
One thing that strikes me in this article is the assumption that any or even most of this spying is still focused on "terrorism." Can you imagine what influence various private surveillance companies now have on politicians, judges, even the president. Stealing company secrets for their own enrichment, bribing those who's dirty secrets they have uncovered...the list of possibilities goes on. This will not end well, but it will end.
The saddest thing for me at least, is that we live on a beautiful planet with endless possibilities for acting with grace and having pleasant lives, but the type of persons who are addicted to accumulate power and money always seem to rise to the top and grind down the rest of us.