My bad for using sensational terminology, but the heart of the matter remains.
The privatization and collusion between government and private entities at the expense of We the People has brought the USA to a point where it's obviously become the land of the corporation and the home of the wage-slave.
Lobbyists with vast funding avail their corporate sponsors of representation which is denied to those who lack such deep-pockets.
Only those with similar vast funding are able to attain high level elected positions within our government, from whence they enact legislation which furthers the divide between the plebiscite and the proletariat, which falls right into line with Marxist "liberal-democratic" ideology, where the government becomes the tool of the Bourgeoisie at the expense of the Proles and the Plebes.
This socioeconomic stratification is quite visible in today's USA, and programs such as "Hemisphere" exemplify this situation.
I too find the exclusion of electronic communications from 4th Amendment protections to be an egregious failure of our Constitutional checks and balances, yet due to my own limited understanding of the situation I have always considered our electronic communications to be analogous to the "... papers and effects..." outlined in the 4th Amendment, but my motivations are different from those who have been appointed to interpret our legal structures.
The very notion of "Too big to fail/jail" is yet another example of holding those with vast resources to a different standard when compared to the average Joe Public who worries about how he's going to continue to feed his family as well as keep an acceptable roof over their head.
Where it leaves us is at an increasingly disadvantageous position, unless we are of the Bourgeoisie and able to purchase our way through the system on par with big banks who launder cartel drug profits with impunity; where political appointees can perjure themselves before Congress with impunity; and where every day words are redefined by our public servants as they maneuver their way through the system with similar impunity as relates to their questionable acts.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I actually don't think the recent surveillance scandals are the best example of corporatism. It is very unclear that corporations (for instance AT&T, in the article) are actually colluding with the government, rather than being legally compelled to comply.
The privatization and collusion between government and private entities at the expense of We the People has brought the USA to a point where it's obviously become the land of the corporation and the home of the wage-slave.
Lobbyists with vast funding avail their corporate sponsors of representation which is denied to those who lack such deep-pockets.
Only those with similar vast funding are able to attain high level elected positions within our government, from whence they enact legislation which furthers the divide between the plebiscite and the proletariat, which falls right into line with Marxist "liberal-democratic" ideology, where the government becomes the tool of the Bourgeoisie at the expense of the Proles and the Plebes.
This socioeconomic stratification is quite visible in today's USA, and programs such as "Hemisphere" exemplify this situation.
I too find the exclusion of electronic communications from 4th Amendment protections to be an egregious failure of our Constitutional checks and balances, yet due to my own limited understanding of the situation I have always considered our electronic communications to be analogous to the "... papers and effects..." outlined in the 4th Amendment, but my motivations are different from those who have been appointed to interpret our legal structures.
The very notion of "Too big to fail/jail" is yet another example of holding those with vast resources to a different standard when compared to the average Joe Public who worries about how he's going to continue to feed his family as well as keep an acceptable roof over their head.
Where it leaves us is at an increasingly disadvantageous position, unless we are of the Bourgeoisie and able to purchase our way through the system on par with big banks who launder cartel drug profits with impunity; where political appointees can perjure themselves before Congress with impunity; and where every day words are redefined by our public servants as they maneuver their way through the system with similar impunity as relates to their questionable acts.