13-07-02 Empire's Useful Idiots: Tom Friedman and Other Pundits Sucking Up to the State

Empire's Useful Idiots: Tom Friedman and Other Pundits Sucking Up to the State

Why, our pundits wonder, should we be disturbed by our state's desire to know everything that everyone does?

July 1, 2013  |  

 

It's a fine thing to see mainstream American media outlets finally sparing some of their attention toward the cyber-industrial complex – that unprecedented conglomeration of state, military and corporate interests that together exercise growing power over the flow of information. It would be even more heartening if so many of the nation's most influential voices, from senator to pundits, were not clearly intent on killing off even this belated scrutiny into the invisible empire that so thoroughly scrutinizes us – at our own expense and to unknown ends.

Summing up the position of those who worry less over secret government powers than they do over the whistleblowers who reveal such things, we have New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who argues that we can trust small cadres of unaccountable spies with broad powers over our communications. We must all wish Friedman luck with this prediction.

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