Surveillance Quotes - Page 7

• I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack] Obama was genuine when he said he was going to change things. I wanted to give the democratic process time to work.

  Edward Snowden

  Giving, Information, Election

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Moreover, it is clear that the era of the information bomb, the era of aerial warfare, the era of the RMA and global surveillance is also the era of the integral accident.

  Paul Virilio

  Warfare, Bombs, Information

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Victim, Luther

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• There's a lot of important issues being brought to the world about America's role in proliferating weapons, about the lack of responsibility of anyone in authority in this country, you have the torture program, that NSA surveillance is Edward Snowden's fault, just like proliferation of weapons is these kids' fault. It's ridiculous, there's never any consequences, there's never any lessons learned.

  Guy Lawson

  Country, Kids, Responsibility

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Government, Way

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Numbers, People

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed."

  Edward Snowden

  Data, Creating, Japan

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I think most Americans are against illegal surveillance of their emails and telephone calls by the government.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Government, Email

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse. They weren't out there picking mushrooms. They were illegally in the United States. It will simplify the adjudication and will expedite the voluntary return, and it will allow our border patrol officers to patrol both sides of that wall. And we can put surveillance devices on top of the wall, vibration detectors and other devices.

  Steve King

  Wall, Mushrooms, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

  Nat Hentoff

  America

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

  Edward Snowden

  Issues, United States, Proposal

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this big debate, but we've got official paralysis - because they're the ones who had their hand caught most deeply in the cookie jar.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Hands, Years

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• I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Spring, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Surveillance induced morality: relics of cultural retardation.

  Marc Maron

  Motherhood, Morality, Retard

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• For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.

  Ron Wyden

  Dream, Believe, Nba

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• We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

  Larry Craig

  Government

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• Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public health sphere allows the state, as the owner of knowledge, to exert power of the bodies of its citizens. Risk discourse, therefore, especially when it emphasizes lifestyle risks, serves as an effective Foucauldian agent of surveillance and control that is difficult to challenge because of its manifest benevolent goal of maintaining standards of health. In doing so, it draws attention away from the structural causes of ill-health.

  Deborah Lupton

  Health Education, Practice, Ill Health

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• Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.

  William Kristol

  Country, Safe, Praise

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• I did surveillance a lot, which sounds exciting, but it never was.

  Miranda Lambert

  Sound, Exciting

  "Miranda Lambert is Having a moment". Interview with Alison Prato, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations

  Glenn Greenwald

  Nsa, Whistleblowers, Revelations

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State”, p.115, Signal

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• The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Believe, Taxi Cabs

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• The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.

  Theodor Adorno

  Authority, Undisciplined, Invocation

  "Wozu noch Philosophie? (Why still philosophy?)". Paper by Theodor Adorno, 1963.

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• After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.

  Joe Biden

  War, Opportunity, Iraq

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.

  Konstantin Rokossovsky

  Steps, Affair, Ministers

  "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev". Book by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, 2007.

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