by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: Obama’s latest crap deconstructed on Hacker News
Obama hit the PR bricks the other day for an interview to be aired last night with Charlie Rose. He cited the Najibullah Zazi case as proof the blanket spying program works, which of course has been soundly dis-proven by many others, including myself. He completely forgot that he has already gone on record saying we can’t have 100% privacy and 100% security now claiming we don’t have to sacrifice one for the other. Then he goes on to contradict himself while remarkable claiming “tradeoffs” like random DUI checkpoints and TSA high school flunkies sticking their hands on your junk are just fine and dandy. “Checkpoints”. You do know that is what the Israelis set up in the West Bank to intimidate and limit the travel of the Palestinians, right? “Checkpoints”… “show me your papers”… Obama then says he sees it as his job to find the “right balance” for us to have to live with. Remember, congress is immune from this kind of collection of personal data as is the president and his family. Obama will never have to go through a “checkpoint” as long as he lives and neither will his children. Neither will the head of Goldman Sachs or Walmart for that matter and you can bet your bottom dollar the “Edward Snowden” character couldn’t get their hands on their phone calls either. Then both Rose and Obama felt the need to praise the NSA like groveling sycophants to power. In the end, and this is only part of the transcript, Obama claims he set up a “privacy and civil liberties oversight board” where he and others will sit around and “set up” the national conversation about the “right balance” we have to come to as a nation. He also stated it’s not just “big guberment” with their smudged little paws on your data and recorded phone calls “because this is not going to be restricted to government entities.”
(see part of the transcript after the break)
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