What Ed Snowden did not tell;
                                           To fear as a needle in a needle haystack
                                NSA: A Multi-Billion Pork Barrel Impotent Peeping Tom

        In the novel 1984; Big Brother Is Watching You was only a probability in Orwell's speculative fiction. In keeping with the technology of the day; a cable was to be at random connected to the average telescreen of the average compliant and conforming citizen of Oceania.

       No one was to know at any given moment whether they were under surveillance or not. Hence the fear that, at any given time in the day, might betray thoughtcrime to the police. And terror upon  the average party member collectively was in fact what was the objective. Not to catch anyone in overt acts of rebellion, because the party members were too terrified to be caught thinking the wrong thoughts; hence thoughtcrime.

        Today, government, with technological capacities outstripping what was in 1948 when George Orwell wrote his book, now has the ability to really say Big Brother IS Watching You:  all x- number of 100 millions 24/7. And there is the total bullshit about surveillance as to safeguard anyone, anywhere and anytime.

        The problem is; The NSA does not isolate a needle in a haystack, it sorts through 100's of billions of needles in a global needle stack of 0's and 1's of computer bytes. Like why Redneck crimes are so hard to prove, the DNA is the same.

        We live in an internet era of trends like Facebook, cat photos and selfies. People fear mass surveillance not due so much privacy issues -- most genuinely have nothing to be ashamed and/or incriminated as far as exposure -- but because they fear, of all things in an All-Seeing Eye, isolation. Being picked as out a deviation from the norm. The exception to the well-trodden rules everyone must go along to get along.

          And so, as a 100 or so million, Muslim or Non-Muslim, hate America; how many would be worthwhile to put under surveillance? How would a National Security Agency All - Listening Ear know what, to give example, going to visit Uncle Ali for the holiday, if it meant anything or not? Or would be a red herring like "Too hot to take the Brooklyn Bridge to see the new Godzilla movie" ? As once was the claim of a thwarted terrorist attack.

            NO, the only fear of government surveillance is government surveillance. Schools and Churches, Religion and Jails, Society and the Masses indoctrinate that to be called out as deviation from the proscribed is to be avoided. Everyone farts, not anyone can fart in public. And the  camera-eye of the crowd is but the sole one in the spot-light that is the objective to spread fear and obedience to the government with its National Security Agency and such.

             So the NSA can say x- number of millions ordered Dominoes pizza, post videos of Bud the Cat, and hold libertarian viewpoints? And yet when Navy SEALs successfully took out Osama bin-Laden with a live feed to the White House. They were lucky in a sense because they were not quite certain bin -  Laden would be in that compound. But they can tabulate the number of libertarian viewpoints who ordered pepperoni.   ---- Copyright 2016 Diogenes Ltd.