It looks as though the ban many people have on visiting the USA needs to be extended to anything at all to do with the USA. <am guessing that emc / rsa shall lose business given its dealings w/ usa / nsa>
It's a peculiar thing that the most heinously evil people ever do not think they are. If we asked Adolf Hitler, "Are you the most evil person in human history?" he would say that he is the goodest person in human history, ensuring that the selfish, evil, people are killed off as is right along with all the others who would drag down the pre-eminent evolution of wondrous nature in biological history. Considering him evil would be like considering the inventor of the smallpox vaccine evil. No doubt Chairman Mao was the goodest man ever, eliminating those evil doing bourgeois revisionists by the million. If asked, he would not volunteer himself as an example of evil-doing on a grand scale. Tojo, Hirohito and co were trying to bring civilisation and prosperity to the benighted hordes of Asia, necessarily by force of arms as people often resist being civilised, like naughty children will do if they can get away with it. Fortunately, the good-hearted atomic bomb builders showed the Japanese people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the USA was much more civilized than the barbarous Japanese. Gosh, there are many people claiming to be the goodest of the bestest most wonderful. For some reason, where they go tends to leave a serious body-count.
So the NSA people are the goodest people ever, making sure the exceptionalist amazing kindest of all in human history great and glorious USA can total anybody anywhere anytime with no prior notice via drone, Cyberspace block and general elimination, no muss, no fuss. If people are not with them, they are against them, and ipso facto evil-doers deserving of anti-terrorist action. Hence the murderous malevolence of Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and many others who have called for the assassination of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden who have provided information to official news media who chose to inform the public about some of what Messrs Assange and Snowden told them.
If "Collateral Murder" was a good thing, then the USA should proudly show what they did. If Abu Grahib prison activities were A-OK then why want to hide the photographs of what went on while lecturing China's bosses about human rights. It must be tempting for China's bosses to invite a USA government "human rights" delegation to go to China for the express purpose of updating China's rulers on making up rules for protection of human rights. If I had to choose between China and USA for my personal safety from totalitarian authoritarians in government, I'd choose India where British rules sort of carry on. India seems to be messy, poor, but unthreatening.
Many USA businesses are feeling the pinch as people flee the "security" of the NSA and leviathan megalomaniac Big Brother acolytes. I will not be buying shares in emc/rsa. I'm nervous about my QCOM.
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