They Are Watching You

There has been a lot of interest, bordering on hysteria, about the government spying on US citizens. Here is an example from Politico. 

“There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States but around the world,” charged Glenn Greenwald, a reporter for the British newspaper “The Guardian,” speaking on CNN. “That is not hyperbole. That is their objective.”

But since most people are not knowledgeable about history (not everyone was like me and read history books for fun in high school) there is a lot of fear. 

This is where Pam Dewey's latest blog series on Big Brother comes in. While the technology has "improved," there is not much new in government interference in private affairs. This is a long-standing issue, and my prediction for the latest "crisis" is that ultimately no one will care about it. And if the next president is a Republican, the spying will continue. 

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