National Security Agency has been reeling from leaks showing massive warrantless surveillance programs capturing communications for every American. These disclosures have further shown that officials like National Intelligence Director John Clapper committed perjury before Congress, though the White House and Congress have protected him from any charge in America’s Animal Farm system. Now, NSA director General Keith Alexander has indicated that he has a solution. With the public saying that it is more afraid of the government than terrorists and NSA workers balking at participating in such authoritarian programs, Alexander wants to replace the workers with machines. Machines don’t leak. Indeed, they have no sympathy or morals at all. They are perfect. That would leave citizens as simply the objects rather than the objectors for surveillance. So, the Obama Administration has finally found the barrier to the creation of the perfect government: the citizens themselves.
With Democrats now joining Republicans in attacking privacy and civil liberties, the only unpredictable element left for the government is people. Without pesky people, government will run far more smoothly. It appears citizens are to be monitored not listened to in the new American political system. Presumably, with an automated system of warrantless surveillance and the courts allowing the Administration to classify evidence to dismiss challenges, Alexander will simply outsource constitutional complaints to India where customer service will ask them to call back later.
Alexander is quoted as saying that he wants to reduce human administrators by 90 percent to be replaced by machines. What he sees as the “problem” is not the false statements by Obama, Clapper, or our leaders. It is those troublesome humans with their nagging consciences and individual will. He explained that his new machine operators
“cuts down number of system administrators. That would address vulnerabilities. It would also address the number of system administrators we have, not fast enough, but we plan to reduce the number of system administrators by 90 percent to make networks more defensible and secure . . . At the end of the day it’s about people and trust and I think we can get that almost perfect but we can’t solve that issue.”
The vulnerability is the involvement of humans. The government will finally create the perfect automatons to do such work without question or complaint. Congress will then be able to continue to mislead the public without fear of contradiction and continue to expand the burgeoning security apparatus that is pouring billions into the pockets of contractors and companies and agencies.
It is also another wonderful example of the open hypocrisy on display in our government. On the even of declaring, “Whistleblower Day” Congress and the White House are moving to make whistleblowers impossible. Machines don’t blow whistles. They don’t speak to reporters. They carry out any abusive or unconstitutional act that you ask of them. In other words, problem solved.
Thanks for the George Carlin, Blouise. It pretty much says it all.
The transcript, copied from You Tube:
“There’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the REAL owners, now.
The REAL owners, the BIG WEALTHY business interests that control things and make all the important decisions — forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. YOU DON’T. You have no choice. You have OWNERS. They OWN YOU. They own EVERYTHING. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations; they’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State houses, the City Halls; they’ve got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear. They gotcha by the BALLS.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying — lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want — they want MORE for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They DON’T want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that, that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting F*CKED by system that threw them overboard 30 f*ckin’ years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want?
They want OBEDIENT WORKERS. OBEDIENT WORKERS. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passably accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re comin’ for your SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY.
They want your f*ckin’ retirement money. They want it BACK. So they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it ALL from you sooner or later — ‘cuz they OWN this f*ckin’ place. It’s a big CLUB. And YOU AIN’T IN IT. You and I are NOT IN the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long, beating you over the in their media telling you what to believe — what to think — and what to buy.
The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-workin people — white collar, blue collar — doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-workin people CONTINUE — these are people of modest means — continue to elect these RICH COCKSUCKERS who don’t GIVE a f*ck about them.
They don’t give a f*ck about you, they don’t GIVE A F*CK ABOUT YOU. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU — AT ALL. AT ALL. AT ALL. You know? And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care … that’s what the owners count on, the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their a$$holes every day.
Because the owners of this country know the truth — it’s called the American Dream … ‘cuz you have to be asleep to believe it.”
George Carlin’s Final Words To The World…
George Carlin on “The American Dream”.
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AY,
You hit that nail squarely on its head … Cyber Warfare
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2013/07/18/how-does-cyber-warfare-work/
nick,
I don’t recall the name … you gotta remember, I spent a lot of time “in training” 😉
As any good hacker will tell you the data is just as good as the security….. I wonder what series of protocols will be implemented…. The right bug, virus…. Can shut down or make problems for a whole bunch of folks….. I’m betting a group like anonymous….. Could wretch havoc ……
Skynet
NSA Headquarters, August 2014
” Let’s take the guesswork out of the Law.”
Would it make much difference?
We already have Supreme Court Justices who seem to think their job has nothing to do with people or the real world and requires nothing more than to derive opinions through some sort of judicial calculus.
I suppose we would save on salary, benefits and pension.
Blouise, Classic indeed. I’ve been meaning to ask you. Bob “I’m just a hugger” Filner was a Freedom Rider. Did you ever run into him?
No more critical thinking for NSA … power secured
Didn’t Terminator teach anyone that machines are a bigger problem than humans? Or, as Elaine commented, 2001 had the same message. Get out to the movies, folks!
This idea has given me food for thought. Since humans cause such difficult problems in getting them to do the “right thing” I propose that we replace our entire legal system with machines. Is is, or will be doable quite quickly. We could save the expenses of Judges, Lawyers, Juries and their ancillary support systems. All that is needed is a bunch of properly programmed supercomputers who will evaluate the evidence and make their decisions. Let’s take the guesswork out of the Law.
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The NSA had better watch out with its machines. Remember Hal?
I have another suggestion, USA…. Let’s replace War with Peace, and forget about EMPIRE!!!!
“These disclosures have further shown that officials like National Intelligence Director John Clapper committed perjury before Congress, though the White House and Congress have protected him from any charge in America’s Animal Farm system.”
There is big talk about the President himself doing “a Clapper” on Jay Leno: “we do not spy on Americans.”
Since today is the Anniversary of Richard Outhouse Nixon leaving The White House, we have The Model For All Lying Criminal Scoundrel Presidents to reflect upon.
Yup!
Can’t trust people.
Get them out of the equation.
Get rid of the managers.
Replace them with computers that are programmed with the Constitution
I have a suggestion for the NSA. Why don’t we replace the NSA director with a machine? While we are at it, why don’t we replace the CIA director with a machine. Once these two positions are in the hands of the machines, then we can pull their plug.
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Still gotta have those “humans” to read and compile, examine and decide on the data….
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