So, you think that the NSA is a criminal operation???? The NSA sole purpose is to protect the American People
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That is a sweet, naive perception that bears no resemblance to the reality. It's sweet that you believe that you're one of those that the NSA is protecting; only if you're one of the 1% is that true.
The NSA and the rest of the intelligence organizations, along with the entire U.S. government, military included, work on behalf of the interests of the 1% and to further multinational corporations' aims. Corporations' designs aren't to protect, defend or serve your or the others of the 99%'s best interests; they're to make a profit.
I yearn for leadership in all branches of government that protects and defends living, breathing human beings' needs and interests instead of legal fictions (corporations) that, if they were people, would be diagnosed as sociopathic character disorders.
Back at the founding of the U.S., a corporation's charter was required to be dissolved after 40 years, so suspicious and cautious were the earliest Americans about corporations. They exist for no other purpose than to profit, no matter what. That wasn't always the case.
Now, corporations are immortal, which is another abzurdity about their being considered 'persons' under the law.
Following the reducto ad absurdum of corporations as people, if you look at them as people, the vast majority of them could be diagnosed as sociopaths. They're completely self-absorbed, their only motivation is profit and destroying competition (other corporations or by the same legal definition other people), they have no conscience, no capacity for empathy. The only time they do something that could be construed as generous or for the greater good is when their consultants tell them it's good for business. It's like they display all of the lower qualities of human beings - greed avarice predatory nature. The same behavior in a flesh and blood human being would elicit cries of shame in the community and considered appalling, but somehow it's just fine for a corporation to behave that way. And they can't be criminally prosecuted.
We're not going to get the kind of leadership to end this travesty from either the Democratic or Republican parties.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost