Does “NSA” = “Nazi States of America”?
If we take our heads out of the sand and do the math on this NSA phone monitoring thing we’ll see it for what it is. Bush denies his NSA wiretaps and monitoring of every number you and I dial (unless Quest is your LD carrier) are “trolling” for terrorist connections. He claims that they are not recording our conversations but only tracking every number every one of us calls.
Again, my friends he is lying. Do the math: If the NSA is not “trolling” for terrorists, they would know who the terrorists were and would monitor them and not need to track our calls.
If you want to know what they’re really doing, read NSA Patent number 5,937,422 Nelson , et al. August 10, 1999. That patented technology enables the NSA to analyze speech by computers that are programmed to “understand” the cybernetics of terrorist language. It’s patently a robotic, terrorist-fishing (trolling) machine and, it’s obviously working now in conjunction with the dialed-numbers tracking program. We’ve clearly got computers “listening” in on—“analyzing if not recording”—our phone conversations.
Can a robot “legally violate” our Constitutional right to due process and our legislated guarantees of privacy?
The NSA has been using this technology to snoop on foreign telecommunications for years. They can honestly say that no NSA agents (human) are snooping on us because they probably aren’t. But a computer like 2001 Space-Odyssey’s odious “Hal” probably is, and this probably explains why Bush is so cocky when he says (but withholds the details for “national security”) his NSA boys aren’t violating the law. The law proscribes human behavior. Federal statutes outlaw the interception and divulgence of messages sent in interstate commercial channels of communication. Arguably, when Big Brother Bush’s “Hal” computer is automatically logging our numbers and recording our names when Hal digitally determines we’re talking terrorist trash, no “one” (implying no human being) has in fact invaded our privacy.
Here’s what I think there’s reason to believe is happening: Bush’s NSA is using its warrantless powers to tap randomly our phones, and using the Patent 59— technology is “trolling” for terrorist talk. No conversations or words are ever “recorded” or “divulged” by any human being and there is no paper trail for later criminal prosecutions. When a “hot spot” (byte on the trolling line) is sensed by the computer, it labels a given phone number/base/caller as “terrorist suspect”. Afterwards, the “trolling computer” is put in line with the “dialed-number-data-based computer” and the suspects calling list converts the trolling line to the terrorist fishing net recently provided when our trusted phone companies handed our calling records to the NSA without our permission. (Cudos to Quest, proudly my own LD carrier, for being the sole hold-out in this outlaw forfeiture of privacy.) The chances for compounding errors in probable-cause (legal reason to search and invade privacy) judgment are geometrically enhanced. As suspected Al Qaeda fish become pixels accreting on NSA screens, we are left to wonder what judge is authorizing a search or phone tap of our neighbor’s house because some automatic dialing robot selling satellite TV (carrying Al Jazeera) left multiple messages on the neighbor’s digital answering machine. Maybe yours.
Arguably a robotic computer “agent” could ignore due process requirements for a court-ordered wiretap and supply probable cause to the NSA humans who then search our files and garages for hard copy or more incendiary evidence. In the meantime, the main difference between the NSA agents and Hitler’s SS is that the SS agents had a heart beat.
Dusty Schoch May 13, 2006
Dusty Schoch is founder of the B.E.A., a NC-based foreign policy think tank; He is also foreign policy editor of Democratswrite.com. For further information on NSA Patent # 5,937,422, Schoch refers the reader tohttp://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/nsapatent.html, and the U.S. Gov. patent website at http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2 (hit patent link and insert number 5,937,422).
AND WHAT’S EVEN SCARIER…
(ADDENDUM BY DR. LEN CARRIER*)
Dusty,
I got back from my trip just in time to hear about the latest NSA snooping mission. It seems clear from what you have learned about the NSA patent, a computerized analysis can now be made of our speech patterns. But it then also seems clear that if the NSA can program computers to identify “terrorist language,” then they can also program them to identify “anti-Bush” language, or “anti-administration” language. In other words, just as J. Edgar Hoover had his file on possible troublemakers, the NSA can construct a file on all those who are critical of government policies and take action against them. What’s even worse is that the person who was in charge of this surveillance technique–General Michael Hayden–has been tapped by Bush to be Director of the CIA. In his new capacity General Hayden will have more resources to gather intelligence on all of us. How can Hayden and Bush say with straight faces that they are only concerned with discovering terrorists? The answer seems obvious. A “terrorist” for them is defined as anyone who objects to Bush’s “war on terrorism.” After all, if you’re against that “war” then you must be “for” the “terrorists.” With this maddening descent into Orwellian double-speak do our leaders toy with us
Best, Len Carrier
*(Dr. Leonard Carrier received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Miami in ’56 and ’58, respectively, and his Ph.D from Stanford in 1967. He taught at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and the University of South Florida (Tampa) before spending the rest of his teaching and research career (29 years until 2000) at the University of Miami. )
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