I did notice the link to one’s Miranda rights (if only a US thing).
Noted here, POGO, the Project on Government Oversight, which typically champions both whistleblowers and better oversight (as the name implies) of government agencies has come out with a newsletter pimping support o this USA Freedom Act. I read it. It gives us nothing, but more congressional ‘oversight’. No budget-kill, no outlawing of mass data collections, no addressing of the Yahoo and Google taps and all that has come because of them - basically, nothing worth having.
I did reply to it on their website, but the editor saw fit to ignore, since I didn’t support their useless position on the matter. They seem more inclined to push for whistleblower protections for NSA and DOD people, which is great, except, pretty self-serving for a group that uses whistleblower protections to get its insider poop for its own benefit. Disappointing. Let’s hope people stay pissed enough to reject this latest, which is hardly more than another power grab on the part of the same people who were happy to fund this mess for years now!
And God, if pressuring Congress to straighten up fails us, then I hope the EU absolutely kicks butt on this thing - because those people don’t represent us at all. Because unfortunately, the link from planet Miranda to the guy Miranda is way closer than the link from US to us.
I hope Snowden goes to Germany. I think it’s his own best shot at pressuring these fools to drop the charges. He’s safer than Obama will ever be now - because, if anything happens to him? The sheer number of suspects would be literally in the millions because of this mess he’s generated and allowed
