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Americans Suffer From Echelon and the National Security Administration Spying Operations.

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At the turn of this century, news broke about the links between Project Echelon and the National Security Administration (NSA). 

Echelon is a secret surveillance program where the NSA is using satellites to spy on electronic communications (email, fax, and phone) of people within the United States using the justification that they are looking for terrorist activity. 

This spying is actually international, with many other countries participating and exchanging data. 

The case in point here is that the NSA is not allowed to spy on US citizens without explicit legal permission, so if the NSA did spy on US citizens, that is a violation of our rights. 

When our rights are violated, then we start losing freedom – the freedom on which our country was founded and our Constitution guarantees. 

If they do spy illegally, than we are one step farther away from the republic that was established by the Constitution. 

How many Americans know that one of the tenants of the Communist Manifesto is government control of communications? 

With the implementation of the NSA spy equipment we are one step closer to Russian rulership versus the American way of life.

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Rationalization for Spying 

The purpose that Project Echelon and the National Security Administration have is to oversee the actions of “enemies of the state” not US citizens.

However, in the process of picking up information for the enemies of the state, Project Echelon is also picking up information on the private conversations of US citizens. 

The information about US citizens that is picked up could end up in the wrong hands or it could be mistakenly linked to terrorist activity. 

The issue at stake revolves around privacy rights of Americans versus protection theories of the US government. 

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Security Versus Privacy: The Gray Area

Project Echelon and the National Security Administration have the right to spy on foreign enemies.

The question is where do matters of national security end and personal privacy begin? 

Once our information is in the hands of the NSA, we have no control over where or how it will be used. 

At what point do we say that personal liberty must be given up for the sake of the ‘common good?’

Oppressive government rule is the definition for “tyranny”, which then is closely followed by Communism.

We must confront our government now, before we are asked to give up more of our rights for the “common good”.

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Ignorance Leads to Tyranny 

If we continue to let our rights be eroded away, through agencies like Echelon and the National Security Administration, one day we will wake up to find that we have no personal rights, no personal privacy, no personal property, and no personal ability to go back and regain what our founding fathers strove so hard to create.

The tendency of the people to shirk personal responsibility for their actions and look to the government to bail them out – rather than assuming responsibility for what got them into their hardship – has led to government programs that erode our individual rights. 

Too many people will brush off this issue as “national security measures” or simply “spying”, but they do not see the bigger picture that puts our nation on a destructive road into tyranny and oppression.

Will Americans realize what they are giving up without a fight? For those of us who have awakened, the battle has begun and the war will continue until all Americans have heard the message and have seen the light.

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