A Perfect Engine of Fascism

The NSA is building a perfect engine of fascism as the control center of a vast and rapidly growing surveillance cartel that includes 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations across the U.S. This cartel of private companies and their government collaborators has conspired to violate the 4th Amendment to the Constitution as well as numerous other laws in uncountable ways. Under cover of the black shroud of secrecy they are collecting all possible digital data on the activities of all Americans and storing them in massive - and massively expensive - new facilities - just in case. Just in case some unnamed bureaucrat decides that you are a possible threat because of an "anomalous event", such as: "your language is out of place for the region you're in," "you're using encryption," or "you're searching the web for suspicious stuff."

This illegally collected data now comprises a "turnkey tyranny," to use Edward Snowden's phrase, which any tyrant can put to oppressive use against U.S. citizens in a way that is indefensible by us citizens - because, once again, the entire operation is hidden under a black shroud of secrecy. But there is no need to wait for this turn of events - this tyrant to show up. He's already there. The system of illegal surveillance set up by the NSA under the fuck-the-Constitution leadership of General Keith Alexander has already been turned to nefarious purposes against Americans - for attacks and reprisals against whistle-blowers who have exposed some of the NSA's multiple billion-dollar boondoggles; for propaganda and misinformation attacks against critics of the NSA's illegal programs; and to spy on suspected drug dealers and tax cheats.

This is only the beginning of this slippery slope. As long as it gets away with its illegal activity, the NSA will continue to expand its list of targets (who have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism or national security) and activities, until any routine traffic stop (for example) will result in your entire digital history being analyzed by any one of 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations across the U.S., all focused on profit and growth at all costs, funded by taxpayer dollars. This focus on profit and growth that is the engine that drives the surveillance cartel will ensure that we accelerate down this slippery slope of fascism. And I don't use the term "fascism" lightly, but in the sense of Benito Mussolini (quite an expert) who defined fascism as the merger of the government and the corporation. As the NSA builds its perfect engine of fascism, it has replaced the Constitution as its guiding law with the financial bottom line of the surveillance cartel.

This must change. The NSA is the greatest threat to the security of the United States, and it must be defunded and destroyed - and a great many of its employees jailed - before it destroys the America that has thrived under the rule of law for nearly two-and-a-half centuries. The NSA is moving fast to complete its perfect engine of fascism. We must act now. We must restore the primacy of the Constitution.