Re: Paranoia over NSA tampering spurs de-Westernisation drive
That's childish. The NSA is just a "security" organization. It only exists to promote security by rooting around in everyone's pants - but only if those pants are outside of the US.
The CIA is where the "operatives" live. They are just an "intelligence" organization and therefore are given free rein to interfere in everyone's lives (and pants). They deny any such involvement and if you ask you disappear. This is where all the nasty people from our prior democracy-building exercises go for post-retirement jollies and more taxpayer-funded salaries.
The FBI is just an investgory agency that has no power to enforce laws. And if they did, they would never be seen outside of the US. And if they trump all other policing forces within the US there is always the undercover SWAT teams to clean up the messes.
This was actually fun to start writing and then I realized that there's no end of people with badges, guns, authority (self given or otherwise.) Local, state forces; vigilantes, biker gangs. Your neighbor who hates neighborhood kids on his/her lawn.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
