Senator Frank Church: The NSA could enable a dictator to impose total tyranny

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Senator Frank Church: The NSA could enable a dictator to

impose total tyranny

 

 

http://benfrank.net/blog/2006/01/08/frank_church/

 

January 8, 2006

 

Senator Frank Church: The NSA could enable a dictator to impose total

tyranny

 

 

Filed under: US Govt, headline news, flyers, Democrats, Cointelpro,

Spying — ben @ 12:10 pm

 

 

Senator Frank Church chaired the Senate Hearings on the FBI's

Cointelpro operation, which spied upon & attempted to INFILTRATE,

DISRUPT & DISCREDIT the peace movement, even Martin Luther King Jr.

 

if a dictator ever took over, the NSA " could enable [him] to

impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back. "

 

From James Bamford's NSA, the agency that could be Big Brother,

Senator Church:

 

" That capability at any time could be turned around on the

American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is

the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations,

telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide. "

 

He added that if a dictator ever took over, the NSA " could enable

[him] to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back. "

 

At the time, the agency had the ability to listen to only what

people said over the telephone or wrote in an occasional telegram;

they had no access to private letters. But today, with people

expressing their innermost thoughts in e-mail messages, exposing their

medical and financial records to the Internet, and chatting constantly

on cellphones, the agency virtually has the ability to get inside a

person's mind…

 

" I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge, "

Senator Church said. " I know the capacity that is there to make

tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and

all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and

under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That

is the abyss from which there is no return. "

 

MLK had informants on his staff. I wonder who has informants on their

staff, travelling with them today…

 

NOW a PDF Flyer

 

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slightly modified for flyer (262kb)

 

 

 

 

 

" The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a

conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. " ~ J. Edgar Hoover

 

 

Tags: frank church, martin luther king, cointelpro, NSA, spying

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