For your Friday enjoyment:
Seen on the "Freedom not Fear" protest march against global internet surveillance at 7.9.2013 in Berlin,Germany.
If you've been following in detail the whole sorry, sad and textbook-abuse-of-power NSA saga, you might appreciate this chance to stop shaking your head for a moment and have a laugh.
Me, I keep wondering why no-one takes history seriously, and why with all the records and studies at our disposal, we're doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over (surely by now we should be learned enough to recognise the ancient trick of inciting paranoia to justify invasion of privacy and the curtailing of basic rights) then spend years cleaning up the mess afterwards. And of course, the culprits in charge of channelling J. Edgar usually melt back into the worm-riddled, bug infested woodwork from whence they came, waiting, waiting for their time to come again. In the meantime, so many lives are ruined...
Oooops, this was meant to make you laugh. Sorry about that.
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