Obama Justifies NSA Spying: Paul Revere Did It First

[The2ndAmendment]

How Paul Revere could have been outed as a ?terrorist? by metadata

Obama stated.

“The group’s members included Paul Revere, and at night they would patrol the streets, reporting back any signs that the British were preparing raids against America’s early Patriots.”

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The Washington Post also hilariously pointed out in a blog post that “if the British Redcoats had access to the type of metadata and processing power the NSA does today, Revere probably would have been caught before he could go on his legendary midnight ride.” Indeed, Revere would have been outed as a “terrorist”

So, you thought blaming Bush was bad? Now they're blaming Paul Revere!

 

[The2ndAmendment]

2016! Still Paul Revere's Fault!

 

[Publius1787]

How Paul Revere could have been outed as a ?terrorist? by metadata

Obama stated.

“The group’s members included Paul Revere, and at night they would patrol the streets, reporting back any signs that the British were preparing raids against America’s early Patriots.”

» Obama Justifies NSA Spying: Paul Revere Did It First Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

The Washington Post also hilariously pointed out in a blog post that “if the British Redcoats had access to the type of metadata and processing power the NSA does today, Revere probably would have been caught before he could go on his legendary midnight ride.” Indeed, Revere would have been outed as a “terrorist”

So, you thought blaming Bush was bad? Now they're blaming Paul Revere!

George Washington had his troops stop and commandeer goods from peoples wagons and paid them in worthless colonial script. Perhaps Obama could use this precedent?

Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and raised and army without consent of congress. Perhaps Obama has an idea here?

Paul Revere? What a load of crap!

 

[Clementine]

2016! Still Paul Revere's Fault!

You mean this time he didn't just say that George did it, too?

I've already heard so many libs state that this started under Bush.

We've always had spies to keep track of the enemy and this is nothing new. We've just gotten more creative, thanks to technology.

The biggest difference between the NSA under Bush and the NSA under Obama is who we are spying on and why.

There has never been a real need to spy on the leaders of countries that have been long-time allies. We used to spy on Russia or China, people we knew hated us and constantly plotted against us.

When you look at the changes in language on watch lists from the Dept. of Homeland Security, you have to realize that the same kind of changes took place with the NSA. The Obama administration has a different idea of who are enemies.

With a great deal of input by radical Muslims, Communists and Marxists appointed by Obama, many changes have taken place regarding the training of personnel and the content of watch lists with DHS. Mentions of Muslims and related words have been pared down and moved down the list while retired military, constitutionalists, Ron Paul fans and anyone belonging to conservative groups moved to the top of the list. Obama wrote in his own book that he will stand with the Muslims if the winds change in an ugly direction. "Ugly" meaning anything even remotely anti-Muslim. We have gotten frequent pleas not to judge them regardless of countless terrorist attacks at the hands of young Muslim males. Obama refuses to utter the terms, 'radical Islam' or 'Muslim terrorist.'

While he told lies to avert attention away from the radical Muslim terrorists in Benghazi, he secretly spied on our allies' phone conversations. While he spent billions of tax payer dollars arming the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda-connected Syrian rebels, he spied on American people.

The spying done by NSA is supposed to focus on people using certain key words that might be uttered by terrorists plotting an attack. Under Bush, those words were likely things like 'jihad', 'infidels', 'bomb' and the like. Now, the key words are likely, 'gun rights', 'constitution', 'military pride', 'Christianity or God', 'tea party' and anything considered anti-Muslim or anti-liberal. It's been made public that they are focusing on ex-military and people who support the constitution. Clearly, the lists are not designed to target likely terrorists, but simply average Americans, who just happen to have differing political views than the current regime. Any time you discuss current events and opposition to Obama's policies or talk about NRA meetings, you are potentially flagged to be spied on in more depth.

Is Obama really after terrorists or merely compiling a list of political enemies?

To date, none of the spying done by the NSA under the Obama administration has stopped a terrorist attack. That is proven by the success of the Boston bombers. NSA didn't pick anything up on them and the administration even ignored warnings from authorities in other countries who had pegged those assholes as terrorists. Even after the bombing, the administration refused to admit that they were radical Muslims. If you believe everything this administration says, you might think that no Muslims ever pose a threat. Even though they likely would have picked something up using proper key words, the conversions between the brothers and other radicals didn't contain the current key words, so they remained under the radar.

If terrorist attacks are a real danger, and most experts agree that they are, then the current efforts by the Obama administration are not going to thwart them and, in fact, is having the opposite effect. Since al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and other anti-American groups are thriving, thanks to Obama's foreign policies, the threat here in the United States is greater than ever. Many plots begin in Arab countries and often carried out by radicals who wait, on our soil, for their orders. Obama has not only emboldened the terrorists by refusing to condemn them, but literally strengthened them by handing over billions of dollars, tanks, planes and an assortment of weapons. Americans are financing their own destruction.

Then we have Benghazi. Obama still hasn't explained why he decided to lie to us the day after the attack. No one in the CIA offered up any evidence of video inciting a group of protesters. Everyone involved in the immediate investigation called it a terrorist attack. Who was the author of the talking points repeated ad nauseum by Obama, Hillary and Rice? Someone came up with that to take attention away from terrorists. The filmmaker was bashed constantly while there was no strong condemnation of the killers. Hillary took family members aside at the memorial and promised them she would get the filmmaker. She didn't say a word about the terrorists.

The recent investigation concluded and even the ultra-liberal Dianne Feinstein agreed that the attack was preventable. More evidence showed that the filmmaker who created the anti-Islam video played no part, though he was arrested soon after and hasn't been heard from since. The killers remain free.

Obama tried to blame the refusal for additional security to budget cuts, but that has been proven false. There is no explanation as to why the security that was at the embassy was removed just a few days before the attack. There is no explanation why we were the only country who didn't remove personnel from the region amid constant threats and numerous attacks in the months leading up to 9/11. There has been no explanation why our personnel was told to stand down immediately. There were a few excuses uttered by spokespersons regarding there not being enough time to help. That excuse went away quickly after the administration was pressed for answers on how they could have possibly known how long the attack would last. The stand down orders came immediately after the attack started. It went on for roughly 7 hours, meaning there was plenty of time to rush to their aid.

A year later, after the investigation was well underway, the White House tried to claim that the stand down orders were actually stand by orders because Libyan officials refused to allow our military to enter their air space, a total reversal of the initial claim of time constraints. There wasn't a single report at the time that we were waiting on the green light from Libyan officials. Instead, they were praised for their attempts at providing security to the embassy. The problem with the last explanation was that too many military Generals testified that they know the difference between stand down and stand by. They were told to stand down and at least one General was relieved of his duty for questioning the order. He said it made no sense and was against all protocol to abandon our people on the ground. We have yet to be told who made the decision to have our military stand down. We have learned that Obama was asleep at the time as he prepared for a much more important matter, namely a campaign fund-raiser in Las Vegas. So, who was in charge and made the poor decisions that day? Hillary? Valerie Jarrett?

We have an administration who handled a terrorist attack horribly. They failed to help. They failed to tell the truth about what was known immediately. They failed to help with the investigation.

Our foreign policy is friendly towards the radicals and hostile to our allies.

The NSA spying seems designed to discover what Americans are talking about rather than exposing would-be terrorists. And Obama was extremely vague when he talked about supposed changes. He didn't actually say they would pull back on spying on citizens, but rather defended what they are doing- for our own good, of course.

Yes, Paul Revere watched for those British soldiers, then warned everyone. NSA is watching all of us and likely reporting to Obama, but what are they warning him about? They sure didn't warn him about the Boston bombers. If they did, he didn't care.