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the thread about nothing...
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Good. Still need to do 100 more push ups. I'll do those after I eat.
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that's a lot of pushups...100 straight? What's on the playlist? What are you eating?
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posted...let the flaming begin
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is that really you?
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Today's wall of text is a tribute to the newest American hero. He did what a lot of us just don't have the balls to do: snitch.
http://undermyfitted.blogspot.com/2013/06/start-snitching-heroism-of-eddie-snowden.html
In case you don't know who this man is, I'm here to tell you he is a true American hero. The word gets tossed around a lot, but some acts are truly deserving of the title. The one he is now famous for fits this description.
If you don't know much about this situation, I really, REALLY suggest you run a lap around the internet and get informed, but the spark notes are that he's an ex-National Security Administration employee who blew the whistle on the lengths that our government was going to in the name of national security, including conspiring with private companies like Google and Verizon to collect records on...everything ever...to help create profiles on every American citize--uh, fight terrorism. (In short, anything you say may be used against you, full stop.)
President Obama came out and made a nice speech about how everything was fine and the government was not listening to our phone calls, but skipped over the $2 billion dollar facility currently being built in Utah for the express purpose of storing data so gained, which he should have mentioned because spending 2 thousand million dollars on equipment for a pursuit is how you show commitment to scaling it back to minimal levels.
Anyway, it was Edward Snowden who let this elephant out of the bag and into the room. Predictably, the people in charge of these programs didn't like that too much. There are those who say he could have taken his complaints to the proper channels, and this is true in the same way you can take your canary to an alley cat...but for some reason, I feel as though this is the only way we would have even gotten to have this discussion.
The actions this man undertook are so heroic because of the inherent risk to his health and safety. He even said verbatim that he would be made to suffer, and yet he did what was right instead of what he was told. That is worthy of deep admiration, as there are likely tens of thousands of men who know all that he does and remained quiet, speaking volumes with their silence about the power of inaction. Of course, he had to flee the country for daring to inform its' citizens just how free their land wasn't.
Crazy world when a speaker of the truth has to flee "the most liberated country on Earth" for the freedom and safety of a totalitarian state for the crime of speaking out against a corrupt government.
Naturally, our corporate-sponsored and totally uncensored free press was and is no help in peeling back the layers of this Orwellian onion, concerning themselves more with finding the informant than investigating the crime. (Apparently a 70 year old white woman from Blacknoose, Georgia saying racist things at some point in the past is a bigger story as well. Gotta love free speech sometimes, because it's easy to change the subject.)
I just find it tragically hilarious that they want to arrest (read: bind, torture and kill) the man responsible for exposing these insidious truths while letting the thousands of parties complicit in making them truths walk free like these execrable practices don't amount to wiping one's *** with our nation's most sacred document. Shooting the messenger doesn't change the message at hand, just puts blood on yours.
The fact is, we have a right to privacy. People may have forgotten that or believe the concept only applies to those with something to hide (in which case they should be suspicious of anybody with curtains), but it's on the top-10 list of original American rights because people obviously thought it was pretty damn important at one time.
I know that incident about 12 years back made everyone a little paranoid, but all the Skynet-lite in the world didn't stop two immigrant kids armed with highly advanced pots and screws from ******g up everybody's day, so how am I supposed to have confidence that having my every step tracked benefits my health and safety? (Besides, how many American citizens have been lost in the ill-advised international aftermath of that infamous day? It's a lot more than 3,000, I'll tell you what.)
There are those who would refer to this man as a traitor, a turncoat, a modern day Benedict Arnold for what he has done, but when a government betrays the trust of its' citizens by deciding what the rules are behind closed doors, some measure of treason against it becomes admirable...necessary...good.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and truthfully since my government has chosen to regard me and 300 million of my best friends as suspiciously as any adversary, Fast Eddie is my homeboy.
It was once said that a true patriot supports his country always and his government when deserved. many people fail to make the distinction, but please know if it were it not for this brave man, we still would be in the dark to just how social our networking can be.
If this man is a traitor, I can only hope that he is the first of many. After all, Washington and Co. were once traitors too, depending on who you ask...history has looked kindly upon them. (Then again, the Founding Fathers would be on a terrorist watchlist nowadays, so what do I know?) I believe the books will one day smile on Edward Snowden as well...so as I have typed a few times since this story broke, good luck, man...you'll need it.
http://undermyfitted.blogspot.com/2013/06/start-snitching-heroism-of-eddie-snowden.html
In case you don't know who this man is, I'm here to tell you he is a true American hero. The word gets tossed around a lot, but some acts are truly deserving of the title. The one he is now famous for fits this description.
If you don't know much about this situation, I really, REALLY suggest you run a lap around the internet and get informed, but the spark notes are that he's an ex-National Security Administration employee who blew the whistle on the lengths that our government was going to in the name of national security, including conspiring with private companies like Google and Verizon to collect records on...everything ever...to help create profiles on every American citize--uh, fight terrorism. (In short, anything you say may be used against you, full stop.)
President Obama came out and made a nice speech about how everything was fine and the government was not listening to our phone calls, but skipped over the $2 billion dollar facility currently being built in Utah for the express purpose of storing data so gained, which he should have mentioned because spending 2 thousand million dollars on equipment for a pursuit is how you show commitment to scaling it back to minimal levels.
Anyway, it was Edward Snowden who let this elephant out of the bag and into the room. Predictably, the people in charge of these programs didn't like that too much. There are those who say he could have taken his complaints to the proper channels, and this is true in the same way you can take your canary to an alley cat...but for some reason, I feel as though this is the only way we would have even gotten to have this discussion.
The actions this man undertook are so heroic because of the inherent risk to his health and safety. He even said verbatim that he would be made to suffer, and yet he did what was right instead of what he was told. That is worthy of deep admiration, as there are likely tens of thousands of men who know all that he does and remained quiet, speaking volumes with their silence about the power of inaction. Of course, he had to flee the country for daring to inform its' citizens just how free their land wasn't.
Crazy world when a speaker of the truth has to flee "the most liberated country on Earth" for the freedom and safety of a totalitarian state for the crime of speaking out against a corrupt government.
Naturally, our corporate-sponsored and totally uncensored free press was and is no help in peeling back the layers of this Orwellian onion, concerning themselves more with finding the informant than investigating the crime. (Apparently a 70 year old white woman from Blacknoose, Georgia saying racist things at some point in the past is a bigger story as well. Gotta love free speech sometimes, because it's easy to change the subject.)
I just find it tragically hilarious that they want to arrest (read: bind, torture and kill) the man responsible for exposing these insidious truths while letting the thousands of parties complicit in making them truths walk free like these execrable practices don't amount to wiping one's *** with our nation's most sacred document. Shooting the messenger doesn't change the message at hand, just puts blood on yours.
The fact is, we have a right to privacy. People may have forgotten that or believe the concept only applies to those with something to hide (in which case they should be suspicious of anybody with curtains), but it's on the top-10 list of original American rights because people obviously thought it was pretty damn important at one time.
I know that incident about 12 years back made everyone a little paranoid, but all the Skynet-lite in the world didn't stop two immigrant kids armed with highly advanced pots and screws from ******g up everybody's day, so how am I supposed to have confidence that having my every step tracked benefits my health and safety? (Besides, how many American citizens have been lost in the ill-advised international aftermath of that infamous day? It's a lot more than 3,000, I'll tell you what.)
There are those who would refer to this man as a traitor, a turncoat, a modern day Benedict Arnold for what he has done, but when a government betrays the trust of its' citizens by deciding what the rules are behind closed doors, some measure of treason against it becomes admirable...necessary...good.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and truthfully since my government has chosen to regard me and 300 million of my best friends as suspiciously as any adversary, Fast Eddie is my homeboy.
It was once said that a true patriot supports his country always and his government when deserved. many people fail to make the distinction, but please know if it were it not for this brave man, we still would be in the dark to just how social our networking can be.
If this man is a traitor, I can only hope that he is the first of many. After all, Washington and Co. were once traitors too, depending on who you ask...history has looked kindly upon them. (Then again, the Founding Fathers would be on a terrorist watchlist nowadays, so what do I know?) I believe the books will one day smile on Edward Snowden as well...so as I have typed a few times since this story broke, good luck, man...you'll need it.
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he did it for e-props though?Today's wall of text is a tribute to the newest American hero. He did what a lot of us just don't have the balls to do: snitch.
http://undermyfitted.blogspot.com/2013/06/start-snitching-heroism-of-eddie-snowden.html
In case you don't know who this man is, I'm here to tell you he is a true American hero. The word gets tossed around a lot, but some acts are truly deserving of the title. The one he is now famous for fits this description.
If you don't know much about this situation, I really, REALLY suggest you run a lap around the internet and get informed, but the spark notes are that he's an ex-National Security Administration employee who blew the whistle on the lengths that our government was going to in the name of national security, including conspiring with private companies like Google and Verizon to collect records on...everything ever...to help create profiles on every American citize--uh, fight terrorism. (In short, anything you say may be used against you, full stop.)
President Obama came out and made a nice speech about how everything was fine and the government was not listening to our phone calls, but skipped over the $2 billion dollar facility currently being built in Utah for the express purpose of storing data so gained, which he should have mentioned because spending 2 thousand million dollars on equipment for a pursuit is how you show commitment to scaling it back to minimal levels.
Anyway, it was Edward Snowden who let this elephant out of the bag and into the room. Predictably, the people in charge of these programs didn't like that too much. There are those who say he could have taken his complaints to the proper channels, and this is true in the same way you can take your canary to an alley cat...but for some reason, I feel as though this is the only way we would have even gotten to have this discussion.
The actions this man undertook are so heroic because of the inherent risk to his health and safety. He even said verbatim that he would be made to suffer, and yet he did what was right instead of what he was told. That is worthy of deep admiration, as there are likely tens of thousands of men who know all that he does and remained quiet, speaking volumes with their silence about the power of inaction. Of course, he had to flee the country for daring to inform its' citizens just how free their land wasn't.
Crazy world when a speaker of the truth has to flee "the most liberated country on Earth" for the freedom and safety of a totalitarian state for the crime of speaking out against a corrupt government.
Naturally, our corporate-sponsored and totally uncensored free press was and is no help in peeling back the layers of this Orwellian onion, concerning themselves more with finding the informant than investigating the crime. (Apparently a 70 year old white woman from Blacknoose, Georgia saying racist things at some point in the past is a bigger story as well. Gotta love free speech sometimes, because it's easy to change the subject.)
I just find it tragically hilarious that they want to arrest (read: bind, torture and kill) the man responsible for exposing these insidious truths while letting the thousands of parties complicit in making them truths walk free like these execrable practices don't amount to wiping one's *** with our nation's most sacred document. Shooting the messenger doesn't change the message at hand, just puts blood on yours.
The fact is, we have a right to privacy. People may have forgotten that or believe the concept only applies to those with something to hide (in which case they should be suspicious of anybody with curtains), but it's on the top-10 list of original American rights because people obviously thought it was pretty damn important at one time.
I know that incident about 12 years back made everyone a little paranoid, but all the Skynet-lite in the world didn't stop two immigrant kids armed with highly advanced pots and screws from ******g up everybody's day, so how am I supposed to have confidence that having my every step tracked benefits my health and safety? (Besides, how many American citizens have been lost in the ill-advised international aftermath of that infamous day? It's a lot more than 3,000, I'll tell you what.)
There are those who would refer to this man as a traitor, a turncoat, a modern day Benedict Arnold for what he has done, but when a government betrays the trust of its' citizens by deciding what the rules are behind closed doors, some measure of treason against it becomes admirable...necessary...good.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and truthfully since my government has chosen to regard me and 300 million of my best friends as suspiciously as any adversary, Fast Eddie is my homeboy.
It was once said that a true patriot supports his country always and his government when deserved. many people fail to make the distinction, but please know if it were it not for this brave man, we still would be in the dark to just how social our networking can be.
If this man is a traitor, I can only hope that he is the first of many. After all, Washington and Co. were once traitors too, depending on who you ask...history has looked kindly upon them. (Then again, the Founding Fathers would be on a terrorist watchlist nowadays, so what do I know?) I believe the books will one day smile on Edward Snowden as well...so as I have typed a few times since this story broke, good luck, man...you'll need it.
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I don't think so, the e-props were just an unavoidable side effect of doing something so incredibly outstanding.
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still spell amerikkka with the triple k.
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what exactly did he do though...in the greater scheme of things does it matter if the govt can monitor meta data about the nations activity?
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It certainly does to me. I don't like the idea of...hell, any of that.
What he did was put hard, credible information in the hands and minds of American citizens so at least we have the knowledge right in our collective face. What happens now is purely on the people, but it is only through his actions that we can even have this discussion based on anything more than speculation.
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I really see no problem with it, it's just part and parcel of the world we live in. Thinking people have always assumed that the govt monitors private citizens to a degree, although the line where monitoring and invasion of privacy occurs might be a point of contention. I don't expect the govt to send me a letter telling me that they are making sure I don't get out of pocket...the fact that crimes still occur despite monitoring lets me know that it is not as invasive pessimists make it out to be.
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born in 89'.. might as well be 1990 with his dumb ***.
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born in 89'.. might as well be 1990 with his dumb ***.
where yo pics at tho?
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Today's wall of text is a tribute to the newest American hero. He did what a lot of us just don't have the balls to do: snitch.
http://undermyfitted.blogspot.com/2013/06/start-snitching-heroism-of-eddie-snowden.html
In case you don't know who this man is, I'm here to tell you he is a true American hero. The word gets tossed around a lot, but some acts are truly deserving of the title. The one he is now famous for fits this description.
If you don't know much about this situation, I really, REALLY suggest you run a lap around the internet and get informed, but the spark notes are that he's an ex-National Security Administration employee who blew the whistle on the lengths that our government was going to in the name of national security, including conspiring with private companies like Google and Verizon to collect records on...everything ever...to help create profiles on every American citize--uh, fight terrorism. (In short, anything you say may be used against you, full stop.)
President Obama came out and made a nice speech about how everything was fine and the government was not listening to our phone calls, but skipped over the $2 billion dollar facility currently being built in Utah for the express purpose of storing data so gained, which he should have mentioned because spending 2 thousand million dollars on equipment for a pursuit is how you show commitment to scaling it back to minimal levels.
Anyway, it was Edward Snowden who let this elephant out of the bag and into the room. Predictably, the people in charge of these programs didn't like that too much. There are those who say he could have taken his complaints to the proper channels, and this is true in the same way you can take your canary to an alley cat...but for some reason, I feel as though this is the only way we would have even gotten to have this discussion.
The actions this man undertook are so heroic because of the inherent risk to his health and safety. He even said verbatim that he would be made to suffer, and yet he did what was right instead of what he was told. That is worthy of deep admiration, as there are likely tens of thousands of men who know all that he does and remained quiet, speaking volumes with their silence about the power of inaction. Of course, he had to flee the country for daring to inform its' citizens just how free their land wasn't.
Crazy world when a speaker of the truth has to flee "the most liberated country on Earth" for the freedom and safety of a totalitarian state for the crime of speaking out against a corrupt government.
Naturally, our corporate-sponsored and totally uncensored free press was and is no help in peeling back the layers of this Orwellian onion, concerning themselves more with finding the informant than investigating the crime. (Apparently a 70 year old white woman from Blacknoose, Georgia saying racist things at some point in the past is a bigger story as well. Gotta love free speech sometimes, because it's easy to change the subject.)
I just find it tragically hilarious that they want to arrest (read: bind, torture and kill) the man responsible for exposing these insidious truths while letting the thousands of parties complicit in making them truths walk free like these execrable practices don't amount to wiping one's *** with our nation's most sacred document. Shooting the messenger doesn't change the message at hand, just puts blood on yours.
The fact is, we have a right to privacy. People may have forgotten that or believe the concept only applies to those with something to hide (in which case they should be suspicious of anybody with curtains), but it's on the top-10 list of original American rights because people obviously thought it was pretty damn important at one time.
I know that incident about 12 years back made everyone a little paranoid, but all the Skynet-lite in the world didn't stop two immigrant kids armed with highly advanced pots and screws from ******g up everybody's day, so how am I supposed to have confidence that having my every step tracked benefits my health and safety? (Besides, how many American citizens have been lost in the ill-advised international aftermath of that infamous day? It's a lot more than 3,000, I'll tell you what.)
There are those who would refer to this man as a traitor, a turncoat, a modern day Benedict Arnold for what he has done, but when a government betrays the trust of its' citizens by deciding what the rules are behind closed doors, some measure of treason against it becomes admirable...necessary...good.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and truthfully since my government has chosen to regard me and 300 million of my best friends as suspiciously as any adversary, Fast Eddie is my homeboy.
It was once said that a true patriot supports his country always and his government when deserved. many people fail to make the distinction, but please know if it were it not for this brave man, we still would be in the dark to just how social our networking can be.
If this man is a traitor, I can only hope that he is the first of many. After all, Washington and Co. were once traitors too, depending on who you ask...history has looked kindly upon them. (Then again, the Founding Fathers would be on a terrorist watchlist nowadays, so what do I know?) I believe the books will one day smile on Edward Snowden as well...so as I have typed a few times since this story broke, good luck, man...you'll need it.
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just imagine a young che guevara X javier bardem with curly hair and a beard.
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Can I post ur pics in da pyp newmoanyah
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no
just imagine a young che guevara X javier bardem with curly hair and a beard.
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When was this taken
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bhergh
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please? U can post my picno
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Can I use it as my phones screensaver and tell pretty girls that you died saving a at from a burning building or something(this will make them sympathetic towards me, and at the same enable me to pull them because they'll say to themselves 'shes pretty cute...how did he get her...why can't I be with him' (word to costanza)).
