Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris...
by JustSomeNobody on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:52PM
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> And yet tons of bad things keep happening to regular citizens in the US.
The "War on Terror!"[0] is yet another way to funnel money to rich corporations. It is a money making machine and that's really all it is. More people die from choking in the U.S. each year than died from terrorism in at least the past 5 years. And yet, we've spent 100's of billions. The NSA is just a piece of that machine.
[0] I know you were being more general in your comment, I'm just pointing out a single reason.
The "War on Terror!"[0] is yet another way to funnel money to rich corporations. It is a money making machine and that's really all it is. More people die from choking in the U.S. each year than died from terrorism in at least the past 5 years. And yet, we've spent 100's of billions. The NSA is just a piece of that machine.
[0] I know you were being more general in your comment, I'm just pointing out a single reason.