[T]he essential expression of the American Surveillance State: we can and will know everything about what you do, and you will know virtually nothing about what we do. In a healthy society, that formula would be reversed: the citizenry (with rare exceptions) would know most everything about what their government does, while the government would know nothing about what citizens do in the absence of well-grounded suspicion that they have done something wrong. (Please read the entire article.)Greenwald talked about the Surveillance State on The Alyona Show July 3rd,2012:
In a functioning democracy, corporations answer to the government and the government answers to its citizens. In the US, it's the other way around. Our pseudo-democracy, through its propaganda machine, has led to a culture in decline (TM).
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
One way mirror
Glenn Greenwald first coined the phrase, "The government’s one-way mirror" in 2010. More recently, he wrote: