Obama's Soft Totalitarianism: Europe Must Protect Itself from America

[Capt Bringdown]

A Monitored Human Being Is Not a Free One -- more --> (http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/europe-must-stand-up-to-american-cyber-snooping-a-906250.html)

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What, exactly, is the purpose of the National Security Agency? Security, as its name might suggest? No matter in what system or to what purpose: A monitored human being is not a free human being. And every state that systematically contravenes human rights, even in the alleged service of security, is acting criminally.

Those who believed that drone attacks in Pakistan or the camp at Guantanamo were merely regrettable events at the end of the world should stop to reflect. Those who still believed that the torture at Abu Ghraib or that the waterboarding in CIA prisons had nothing to do with them, are now changing their views. Those who thought that we are on the good side and that it is others who are stomping all over human rights are now opening their eyes. A regime is ruling in the United States today that acts in totalitarian ways when it comes to its claim to total control. Soft totalitarianism is still totalitarianism.
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Has U.S. started an Internet war?

(CNN) -- Today, the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world.

More than passively eavesdropping, we're penetrating and damaging foreign networks for both espionage and to ready them for attack. We're creating custom-designed Internet weapons, pre-targeted and ready to be "fired" against some piece of another country's electronic infrastructure on a moment's notice.

This is much worse than what we're accusing China of doing to us. We're pursuing policies that are both expensive and destabilizing and aren't making the Internet any safer. We're reacting from fear, and causing other countries to counter-react from fear. We're ignoring resilience in favor of offense.

Welcome to the cyberwar arms race, an arms race that will define the Internet in the 21st century.

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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/18/opinion/schneier-cyberwar-policy/index.html

[The Reckoning]

obama is in berlin right now trying to defend his policies. giving his speech on the brandenburger tor of course. he has that whole part of the city shut down. seems like his biggest supporters (germans) are all pissed at him right now because his actions resemble that of the GDR prior wall collapse.

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[DeadlyDynasty]

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