The UN has a new member: the NSAJon Rappoport Der Spiegel, based on another Snowden leak, reports, quoting an NSA document: The data traffic gives us internal video conferencing of the United Nations (yay!) Were not just talking about General Assembly meetings. NSA had to crack code to get in. Presumably, these were smaller, more private sessions. Der Speigel also mentions that NSA has been spying on the EU delegation in New York, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Commission), and 80 embassies and consulates around the world. At this point, Id normally write something like, So who hasnt the NSA been spying on? You, in your home? But we already know the Agency is collecting information on all of us. This is how federal agencies operate. Based on technology at their disposal and budget dollars, theyll extend their mandate as far as they possibly can. Breaking the law is as important to them as running a red light is to a cop in pursuit of a bank robber. NSA is supposed to collect information on behalf of national security. This now means all data on everybody all the time. Because their true mission, aligned with that of the federal government, is control. If the FDA had enough funding, they would track every item of food sold in America from farm to store to customer to digestion to elimination, just because they could. ATF would list and track every weapon from the North Pole to Tierra del Fuego. The Dept. of the Interior would label and analyze every inch of soil in America. When government officials use the word freedom, theyre really saying, You know, that old fairy tale people used to amuse themselves with. We have our own clash of civilizations right here at home. Its between, on the one side, government and its enabling partners, and on the other side, those of us who still know freedom actually means something. That clash isnt going away. Thats why youll find the following statement in a DOD training manual titled, Extremism, just exposed by Judicial Watch: In US history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples. Well, I guess that settles that. The colonists were just a bunch of extremist crazies. No connection to us now. A fringe group of haters. For some reason, they didnt like the British. One of the crazy colonists penned this quote. You can understand why the federal government of today prefers to think of him and his ilk as extremists: When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution. (Thomas Jefferson, 1774) What would a less extremist mind produce? Something like this: It is the sworn duty of the government to protect its citizens. In this regard, smashing the walls of privacy in every facet of life is essential. A protected citizen is a known citizen. If he errs, he can be corrected, through persuasion, peer pressure, threat, harassment, arrest and prosecution. A citizen who takes a dim view of government power is a potential terrorist. He is dangerous to the collective. He must be stopped. Yes, thats a much more balanced and modern view. A person writing that statement would be given a pass by the government. Actually, on a scale of venality, the NSA snooping on the UN ranks fairly low. I just wish the NSA would publish every word of what theyve picked up. Then we would see what an infernal organization is headquartered in New York. Spying on one organic farmer in California is far worse than spying on the whole UN. Finally, it shouldnt escape your attention that the NSA is an agency formed under the Pentagon. That means the military is spying on everybody in America. The fact that the Pentagon is a section of the Dept. of Defense, which itself is under the control of White House merely indicates the President is doing nothing to stop the military. Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From the Matrix, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 