Here’s who spent their Fourth of July protesting the NSA
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There's a roundup on the Restore the Fourth reddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth/comments/1hor8p/rou... and I've also got a bunch of links on the Get FISA Right blog at https://getfisaright.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/restorethe4th-...
I hope the chief editors there have realized that their own phone calls and emails are being scanned. You would guess that it is in their best interests to give this issue a helluva lot of attention in their media.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013...
You got the air-play because the NSA etc needs to show it's all fluffy bunny and won't stifle white people's aggro. That's it. That's why the NSA read this forum, and posted on their homepage that they were "cool with legal protest". Jesus wept, if you're not getting paid to be this naive, you ain't gonna make it. If you're "surprised" you're either a fool or a tool.
We know who you are, and we can see the ties. Seriously: if this is your best game, you're doomed. You have little or no idea what you're playing with, and it's cringe worthy.
This is worse than the Koch brothers "Tea Party" take over, because at least they spent ~$50,000,000 on it and employed professionals. That's what made them players. Oh, and a small tip: $50 million is pocket change.
This is really pitiful stuff chaps. Ghandi, MLK and so on are spinning in their graves at this. Hint: the fact you have totally ignored the entire decimation of the African-American community is a telling one[1]. There's a reason that "Illuminati" symbolism is so prevalent in modern African-American music[2]: it's not about a secret society, it's about them <REDACTED: COINTELPRO>[3] and being engineered for the last 50 years, deliberately.
Wise the fuck up.
Ever wonder why MLK became Ghetto? $ and politics, and CIA running crack-cocaine.
Welcome to the Black Experience, it's Coming Soon[TM]
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk
[2]http://thefeministwire.com/2013/05/the-rise-of-beyonce-the-f...
A successful movement for greater freedom requires great courage, and a degree of social trust among the movement participants that is not easy to find. Allow me to repeat advice I have shared here on Hacker News before. If you really want to be an idealistic but hard-headed freedom-fighter, mobilizing an effective popular movement for more freedom wherever you live, I suggest you read deeply in the free, downloadable publications of the Albert Einstein Institution,
http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html
remembering that the transition from dictatorship to democracy described in those publications is an actual historical process with recent examples around the world that we can all learn from. You can find publications in Arabic, Azeri, Belarusian, Burmese, Burma (Chin), Burma (Jing-paw), Burma (Karen), Burma (Mon), Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Tibetan, and Ukrainian there to share with your friends around the world.
P.S. Hat tip to the Reddit subreddit that linked to TV news coverage
http://kstp.com/article/12303/?vid=4128742&v=1
of the Minneapolis protest. (I'm visible way off in the distance in a few of the TV shots.)
The most translated item is From Dictatorship to Democracy, a book by Gene Sharp. Who is Gene Sharp? On the face of it, someone who following their youth as a conscientious objector made a career out of the academic study of nonviolence, with some strong help getting started when Albert Einstein agreed to write the forward to his first book (way back in 1960), a 316 page book with a paucity of visible reviews entitled Gandhi wields the weapon of moral power; three case histories. After that a career in academia, lots of writing, and - well - the founding of the Albert Einstein Institute (whose primary author appears to be himself, and whose primary output appears to be From Dictatorship to Democracy, the book translated in to most of the aforementioned languages). An interesting situation.
I looked at the book but found it pretty dubious as a sort of distant, light touch, waffling approach to someone else's vigilance, hard work, and disciplined struggle, often at great cost... strung in to a simple, bite-size, easily digestible, ten-part recipe. Its main references are other works by the same author. Sorry, not convinced.
Fight for the Future attempted to organize online protests similar to the SOPA blackouts, but ended up doing this in a rather deceptive way (which is what the post discusses).
It's floating in https://news.ycombinator.com/newest right now: Why we are not joining Fight for the Future’s "Internet Defense League"
The blog post itself is here: http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2013/07/integrity-internet-def...