The Security State

Post 9/11 America has increasingly become a security state. Spying on the population is now commonplace. Local police forces have been militarized. Borders, points of entry, especially airports, and border regions have become the scene of long lines with questionable outcomes.

Posts about the Security State

Revisiting MetaData – Your Life Made Visible November 17, 2016 In the current moment much of the concern about privacy online and otherwise has been overwhelmed by Trump, inequality, racism… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	No Place to Hide by Glenn Greenwald – book review June 1, 2014 We are within days of the anniversary of the first revelations from Edward Snowden’s archive of NSA documents. The drum… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
FISA Court – Not a Court – an Administrative Rubber Stamp – Bureaucrats Dressed Up as Judges July 11, 2013 The government and the press continue to refer to the FISA Court as a judicial review, a third party oversight… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata July 9, 2013 With the recent revelations of the NSA vacuum cleaner collecting metadata about every aspect of our lives ((We are forced… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
NSA Vacuuming, Meta Data, Mistaken Misleading Metaphors June 17, 2013 NSA’s gathering of Meta Data Compared to Corporate Use of Information In the current discussions of the government’s wholesale seizure… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Dangers of the US Security State June 16, 2013 There are those, in response to the recent revelations of the US government vacuum cleaning our lives through the NSA… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
US Vacuum Cleaning Our Privacy – the bigger story June 8, 2013 There has rightfully been considerable outrage over this week’s revelations that the Federal government has been sucking up information on… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Parallels and Prescience – on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 and the “War on Terror” September 12, 2011 Having successfully avoided much of the national moment for our politicians to blather on about the true meaning of 9/11,… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
Naomi Wolf’s The End of America – the movie May 27, 2011 The End of America – a film by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern Here is a summary ((from the endofamericamovie.com… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	Yottabytes and the National Security State October 17, 2009 The current New York Review of Books has an article by James Bamford, “Who’s in Big Brother’s Database” that reviews… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →
A New Thought on Terrorism December 6, 2008 An article in today’s NYTimes about cyber crime, malware, etc. suggests to me that another line of attack may be… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →	A New Thought on Terrorism December 6, 2008 An article in today’s NYTimes about cyber crime, malware, etc. suggests to me that another line of attack may be… Share this: Tweet Email Like this: Like Loading... Read more →