Sunday, October 23, 2011

Security/Industrial Complex Axes Liberty

Since 9/11, relentless fearmongering has produced what NSA expert James Bamford has termed the “security-industrial complex,” a revolving door between those generating the fears and those profiting from them (Politico, September 8). Some $690 billion has been spent on the emerging national surveillance state with results documented in the Surveillance in the Homeland series.    Bamford fears we have reached the point of "no return." But it is our hope that the more people come to understand the dimensions of the system erected in the shadows, the more chance that we can together make the current budget crisis an opportunity to put on the brakes and begin to roll back the surveillance state. We hope this Truthout series will generate action and that our website privacySOS.org will become a resource for the kind of local activity that can begin to turn the situation around. 
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