'National Security Has Become a State Religion'

<blockquote>'Ordinary Internet users, American and non-American alike, far outnumber legally targeted foreigners in the communications intercepted by the National Security Agency from U.S. digital networks, according to a four-month investigation by The Washington Post.'

- Barton Gellman, Julie Tate and Ashkan Soltani, In NSA-intercepted data, those not targeted far outnumber the foreigners who are, July 5, 2014</blockquote>


<blockquote>'In a SPIEGEL interview, Edward Snowden's lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, and former NSA contractor Thomas Drake discuss the reasons behind the American spying agency's obssession with collecting data.'

- Der Spiegel, NSA Experts: 'National Security Has Become a State Religion', July 4, 2014</blockquote>


Context Property rights - Civil Liberties - The Criminal N.S.A. (The New York Times)

<blockquote>How the NSA is tracking people right now

'..a total surveillance of [global] citizens.'

'..The NSA, FBI and CIA have, with the new digital technology .. United Stasi of America.' - Daniel Ellsberg Edward


Magna Carta - MI5 feared GCHQ went 'too far' - '..[the American media] .. subservient to corporate and state power..'

'..the Magna Carta..'

The Glorious Revolution - The Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus


Christianity, Islam – 'The Principles of the Laws Protection of..' '..Discovery of the Self'

The Decline of Scholasticism - By Murray N. Rothbard

(The Electric Universe) - '..a performance storyteller and arts educator..' - '..a problem of seeing..'</blockquote>