The Buffalo Attack Is a Reminder That Mass Surveillance Doesn’t Protect Us
It doesn&#x27;t protect us because it isn&#x27;t designed to. That&#x27;s the sales pitch, but that&#x27;s not what it&#x27;s for. People think it&#x27;s odd because they don&#x27;t understand what it is. Why spy on everyone if the point is <i>not</i> to protect people? Even if your idea of protecting society is jailing homosexuals or minority activists, what purpose do these tools serve but someone&#x27;s idea of protecting society?<p>It&#x27;s a big blackmail operation. To maintain power in an economic system where people can make something of themselves on their own, you need to know a lot about them throughout their lives. Having power in a system where people can&#x27;t do that is great, but it doesn&#x27;t give you a good economic engine to manipulate. So they just prepare to control you if you ever make it, for everyone, and let us all do our thing. No matter who makes it in life, they&#x27;ve got them by the balls.<p>They also blackmail each other for their own personal interest.<p>The whole intelligence apparatus is J Edgar Hoover&#x27;s FBI on alien steroids, a big machine designed to preserve power for the people operating it.