We Are All Living Under Constant Surveillance, All the TimeMelissa Melton The latest leaks from former ex-National Security Administration contractor Edward Snowden arent really leaks or even revelationsthey are more just basic observations on the way things are in society today. Everyone is under surveillance now the Guardian headline begins. Everyone. Worse, the people in charge of pushing this agenda say its for our own good, you know, for National Security and all. The US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden has warned that entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance. Its no longer based on the traditional practice of targeted taps based on some individual suspicion of wrongdoing, he said. It covers phone calls, emails, texts, search history, what you buy, who your friends are, where you go, who you love. Snowden made his comments in a short video that was played before a debate on the proposition that surveillance today is a euphemism for mass surveillance, in Toronto, Canada. The former US National Security Agency contractor is living in Russia, having been granted temporary asylum there in June 2013. The video was shown as two of the debaters the former US National Security Administration director, General Michael Hayden, and the well-known civil liberties lawyer and Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz argued in favour of the debate statement: Be it resolved state surveillance is a legitimate defence of our freedoms. [emphasis added] And now were having debates over whether surveillance really means mass surveillance. These Snowden leaks/revelations/basic observations will continue to trickle out because, well, its a slow-drip method of keeping the glaring big brother reality of our totalitarian society in your face all the time so youll get accustomed to the fact that you are under constant government watch and passively accept it. Thats how it works. As soon as you arent thinking about the NSA spying on you all the time, as soon as the big data analysis shows that social media arent buzzing with the name Edward Snowden and related search terms, BAM. Another magical Snowden leak will drip out, right on time, to remind us all once again that were are totally under constant mass government surveillance and we have no freedom or privacy or respected rights. Can someone show these guys the Constitution? Can someone point out where it is in the Bill of Rights that it says they are null and void if our government deems it necessary to form a big brother police state under the guise of national security? Wasnt the NSAs mission to collect foreign intelligence, by the way? (Even typing that sentence at this point is like reluctantly saying the punchline of a joke you know everyones already heard ten times before.) Worse, though, is that were not even just a surveillance society. More and more every day, were actually becoming a sousveillance society. Every heard of that term? I hadnt until just a few days ago. Sousveillance (/suvelns/ soo-VAY-lns; French pronunciation: [suvjs]) is most commonly defined as the recording of an activity by a participant in the activity typically by way of small wearable or portable personal technologies. (source) Some people say its a reverse surveillance tactic such as when the average citizen using his or her smartphone to record misdeeds by the cops but really in this environment where the government has tapped all the major telecommunications companies from phones to Internet, it ultimately just means that were all spying on ourselves. So its actually worse than Snowden saysbecause we arent just living under constant government surveillance, but were facilitating it. Were active participants in our own surveillance. Were helping them do it by doing half the job. Were spying on ourselves. Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media. Wake the flock up! 