The scope and depth of the National Security Agency’s surveillance program is what particularly troubles the retired MIT professor and leads him to conclude that our current president is set on undermining the foundations of our society. The documents unveil a remarkable project to expose to state scrutiny vital information about every person who falls within the grasp of the colossus — in principle, every person linked to the modern electronic society, Chomsky wrote. As the colossus fulfills its visions, in principle every keystroke might be sent to President Obama’s huge and expanding databases in Utah. In other ways too, the constitutional lawyer in the White House seems determined to demolish the foundations of our civil liberties. The principle of the presumption of innocence, which dates back to Magna Carta 800 years ago, has long been dismissed to oblivion. All this adds up to a system that George Orwell would’ve been incapable of envisioning as Nothing so ambitious was imagined by the dystopian prophets of grim totalitarian worlds ahead. dailycaller/2014/06/04/chomsky-obama-determined-to-demolish-the-foundations-of-our-civil-liberties/
Posted on: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 16:19:56 +0000
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