{"id":26175,"date":"2013-10-29T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/?p=26175"},"modified":"2013-10-29T17:01:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T16:01:34","slug":"opinion-911-was-not-the-beginning-and-anyone-who-believes-this-will-end-is-naive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/opinion-911-was-not-the-beginning-and-anyone-who-believes-this-will-end-is-naive\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: 9\/11 was not the beginning and anyone who believes this will end is &#8230;naive."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9686\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tomspencer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9686  \" title=\"Tom Spencer\" alt=\"Tom Spencer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tomspencer.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tomspencer.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tomspencer-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 85vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Spencer\/Texas hat sich Gedanken zur NSA gemacht. (foto: spencer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>After the Snowden leaks came out, I remembered that back in 1972 or &#8217;73 or there abouts, Denton, Texas along with Austin was one of the 2 bastions of Hippiedom in Texas. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In graduate school at the time, I was part of the group of students sampling the alternative lifestyle and letting my &#8222;Freak Flag&#8220; fly. Denton had lots of students selling the recreational drugs of choice to each other and basically anyone who was interested, many times the local cops.<\/p>\n<p>At that time a local dealer I knew lived off campus with a real &#8222;Brainiac&#8220; whose father was a General in the Air Force. At that time he was assigned to the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>On one surprise visit to see his son, he wore a briefcase chained to his wrist. I note this was about the time satillites started being used to transmit &#8222;long distance&#8220; telephone calls. Local calls used landlines and required a physical &#8222;tap&#8220; to be recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing that his son was living in a den of hippies, the General told his son, &#8222;Don&#8217;t be talking about drugs on a long distance telephone call because if it goes through the air, we get it.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>It is obvious to me that the NSA has been listening ever since it could. <strong>9\/11 was not the beginning and anyone who believes this will end is &#8230;naive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For further reading see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/news\/518506\/gwynne-dyer-downfall-nsa\" target=\"_blank\">Gwynne Dyer, The downfall of the NSA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Snowden leaks came out, I remembered that back in 1972 or &#8217;73 or there abouts, Denton, Texas along with Austin was one of the 2 bastions of Hippiedom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/opinion-911-was-not-the-beginning-and-anyone-who-believes-this-will-end-is-naive\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eOpinion: 9\/11 was not the beginning and anyone who believes this will end is &#8230;naive.\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,24,173],"tags":[2951,4621,4472,2033,5858],"class_list":["post-26175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medien","category-politik","category-usa","tag-2951","tag-denton","tag-nsa","tag-tom-spencer","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schiebener.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}