"There Are Times When We Have to Have Those Things in Place"

U.S. Government Has Copies of Most of Your Emails
funniest moments start from 48:40: ... "there are times when we have to have those things in place"- that's it!

Alternatively watch this video starting from 04:02:

More on Surveillance: U.S. Citizens Hesitate To Report Suspicious (Terrorist) Activity

News on Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's notorious “See Something, Say Something” campaign: Americans seem to feel some reluctance towards denouncing their fellow citizens, a FEMA survey found out (it is not said how many overall, just the different types of hesitation are mentioned).

For the FEMA .pdf document, click on the following headline:
Improving the Public’s Awareness and Reporting of Suspicious Activity: Key Research Findings from Literature Review, Household Survey, Focus Groups and Interviews

A summary of and comments to the survey can be found at the Center for Investigative Reporting:
Citizens fear reporting 'suspicious activity' will hurt the innocent

An infamous video (funded by the Department of Homeland Security) was shown in 2009 "at the Center for Empowered Living & Learning (CELL), an institution dedicated to addressing the global threat of terrorism, with a museum facility (called Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: Understanding the Threat) in Denver. The facility includes exhibits on the history of terrorism and its prevention."

But even in Nazi-Germany the population didn't really jump on the Gestapo's denouncing bandwagon: contrary to myth, the willingness of Germans to denounce their fellow citizens was rather not "overwhelming", as recent historical investigations show. (see Denunziation im Dritten Reich - Die Bedeutung von Systemunterstützung und Gelegenheitsstrukturen).

On the Growing State Surveillance in the USA

Guess it's fair to say that neither the Nazis nor the KGB nor the SED were in possession of more information about citizens than the NSA ... watch and learn at DemocracyNow!:


Part 1: On the Growing State Surveillance (video + transcript)
Part 2: More Secrets on Growing State Surveillance (video + transcript)

Seems as if the "German Glance" has returned to America. See also: Surveil Ordinary Citizens!