There are 1,931 private companies working on intelligence, counterterrorism, or

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10. Spying on the American People is lucrative. Big Corps, contractors make big money, the irony is

we are paying twice to be spied on. Once to our telephone companies, (will be cancelling ours this week) and again with our tax dollars to have a bunch of yahoos like HB Gary who are too stupid to stay off the internet acting like big macho men, only to have their entire website exposed and their contracts, one was to help smear Glenn Greenwald, lol, so we learned where all the smears were coming from, yes, we are paying idiots like them to spy on us. If I want to be spied on, I know people who I would trust a hell of a lot more than any of these morons, but the fact is even with people I trust, like my own sister eg, I do not want to be spied on.

Follow the money, that's always where all these fake 'national security' claims eventually lead. It's all about money. Big money, so they will fight hard to stop us from stopping them from destroying our rights. But it must be done if we are to remain a democracy. Otherwise let's stop pretending. If they were honest and stopped pretending we are still a democracy, I would be far less angry. It's the stupidity of defending these horrible, totalitarian, pretend 'security' schemes against the people while still trying to pretend we are a democracy that really gets to people.