USA - OH SNOWDEN THYE COUNTRY IS OF THEE

By nchamah miller

So, gone are the days of the good old spies and national idolatry. Hello Drones,   Prisms and a re-configuration of values.

There is something that makes me very uncomfortable with the Snowden drama, not particularly because of his actions, but on account of  the narratives which are developing around  surveillance – along  the absurdity and righteousness of the general American public and the Europeans.

Re the latter: are they EVER  alienated!  What did they think,  that only lefties and non-citizens would be spied upon, that Face Book and Twitter were mere  big global woopy party sites?

When you see the beard of your neighbour being shaved, put yours to soak.[i]

Let’s face it,   most of us knew that we  have been spied upon, in one way or another,  by the big G’s; even as we typed certain words on our e-mails, and so did every body else. But it appears  some Americans   condone relative degrees of spying of their own, say hooligans, specially given the tendency for mass murders in that country by home grown rifle totting ruffians, gangers and fanatics.  Now,  in what state of delusion are the other  US citizens in that they concluded that they would be exempt from predatory practices by their own kin.

Here are some amusing situations.

1) While the NRA will defend their right to bear arms by arming EVERYBODY, they don’t seem to care a hoot that they are spied upon. What do they care, its not privacy, civil liberties, that they are concerned with, as opposed to   the right to infinite personal weaponry.  They value their privacy in terms of self-security. These darlings are ideal candidates for US military service and the web of militay sub-contracting,  and probably have concluded that their conversations should actually be broadcast to the  high winds.

2) The Europeans seem to have been quite content with this sort of Shenanigans,  as long as they were taking place in Latin America, actually everywhere else as well.  And, now the Germans are sounding as disingenuous as when they claimed that they did not know the holocaust was taking place through the hands of their regimes (there were pogroms in Germany even before Hitler).

3) A few months ago Russia expelled a couple of Americans for technical espionage, perhaps in presage to these events.  Wisely, they have not pronounced themselves for or against Snowden, although they have not invited him to their dachas and are holding him for observation of  his eating habits or some other malaise of the  virtual viral type or other.

5)  About the  Chinese: we were also  force fed a load of BS through claims filtered through the media re buildings dedicated to espionage of US sites or to hacking in Shanghai. Was anybody naïve enough not to suspect that to come to this conclusion some sort of nuclear crystal balling must have been taking place through US channels. Okay,  what we did not know was its name – Prism.  Too cute!!!  Traditionally projects such as these, for some sick reason  had  names of American Indigenous martyrs – like Geronimo, etc. Of course the linguistics had to be changed as the ante was upped.

So all in all, the reaction to Snowden appears to fall into some  psycho-political-cultural categories in the US.

a) The Alpha Super Megalomaniacs whose dirty little secret is now out, clamouring treason and for the crucifixion of Snowden i.e with a trial and all.  Um, I wonder who will act as Pontius Pilot. The Pentagon.

b) The Alpha Patriot Eggs  with a tenacious subconscious tendency towards secrecy who consider themselves the Guardians of the Republic. The NSA.

c) The Beta scurriers who  cover their tracks every time they or anybody in their group poops. The contracting firms.

d) The Alpha-Beta-Delta-Gamma-typer (ABDG) who really believes that Americans are exempt from any treatment equal to that which the USA dishes out onto others,  either within or without their frontiers. The Joe/Jane Blogs,   who will watch the progress of this drama, as a  series with the same interest and attention  they give the baseball series, but who keep scores. Currently Snowden 2, US Admin: three men on base and batter with three balls. The ABDG are non-plus-sed and are staring to conclude they don’t know what democrat or republican means. And their periodicals are all over the map on this issue:  eg. The New York Times and Washington Post to name a couple of trend setters.  (So, instead these ABDGers rivet their attention to the likes of the trial of George Zimmerman, who bases his defense on an out-dated alleged right to stand ground,and shoot at will, upon provocation causing fear of imminent death, such as your grandma coming at you with her mop. 

   

All in all, via Snowden,  I am glad to have received an official confirmation of what we intuited, Big Brother snoops BIG TIME, but now we know we are not alone,  the plans is democratically administered, to the high sidoner and the hoi polloi -  equally.   Also, seems that we do have direct access to US Intelligence – all we have to do is, for example, write words like – he-who-gives which in Spanish is al que dá OR Fuerza Aérea de la República de Cuba – FARC….. And,  we have their full attention. Have to think a bit  more about what possible positive spin I can give this primsm-ical obstrution.   Suspect some hacker could eventually  boomerang the whole process and  perhaps that is what the scurrying is all about.

But what if Snowden is just a cover turned into the greatest plant in recent history, because?  Perhaps that is what Correa of Ecuador is weighing before he reins in the gringo, who does not appear to have any political conviction,  onto his territory. 

I could go on,  but I have to see how they are reporting what  Oh-balm-y is doing in Africa.

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[i] Civil War Spanish saying: – Cuando veas las barbas de tu vecino cortar, pon las tuyas a remojar.