NSA Recruiters and the Snowden Scandal Clash. Great Fun Ensues!
Tables are turned on National Security Agency recruiters by savvy University of Wisconsin students in light of the Snowden scandal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/05/national-security-agency-recruitment-drive
From the Blog: The Mob and Multitude
"Anybody can be an “adversary.” That means foreign governments, allies, and American citizens. Anyone can become an adversary at any time as far as the American government is concerned. That means OWS anarchists, socialists, activists and leftists of various stripes, environmentalists or just stupid kids."
"They are just doing their jobs. I’m not sure why this is a defense. It didn’t work at Nuremberg. And, it shouldn’t work now. This is not to compare what is happening now as somehow equal to or better or worse than the German holocaust, but to underscore a philosophical point Hannah Arendt made about the nature of modern evil: It’s banal. That means it hasn’t got a pitchfork or horns sprouting out of its head. Rather, it is thousands of ordinary people just doing their jobs."
The transcript from the discussion with recruiters can be found here, also.
http://mobandmultitude.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/05/national-security-agency-recruitment-drive
From the Blog: The Mob and Multitude
"Anybody can be an “adversary.” That means foreign governments, allies, and American citizens. Anyone can become an adversary at any time as far as the American government is concerned. That means OWS anarchists, socialists, activists and leftists of various stripes, environmentalists or just stupid kids."
"They are just doing their jobs. I’m not sure why this is a defense. It didn’t work at Nuremberg. And, it shouldn’t work now. This is not to compare what is happening now as somehow equal to or better or worse than the German holocaust, but to underscore a philosophical point Hannah Arendt made about the nature of modern evil: It’s banal. That means it hasn’t got a pitchfork or horns sprouting out of its head. Rather, it is thousands of ordinary people just doing their jobs."
The transcript from the discussion with recruiters can be found here, also.
http://mobandmultitude.com/
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