US security machine runs rampant

Recent exposures of the pandemic pervasiveness of US intelligence gathering has obviously rattled its hegemony cage somewhat, scattering embarrassing effluent from the fan of factual farrago. Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and their ilk have a lot to answer for, it seems.

The recent US embassy alerts and “symbolic” closures, accompanied by renewed scaremongering re imminent terrorist threats, have been creatively contrived to redress the balance.

Recalibrating the justification for gross transgressions in the zone of personal privacies, is a blatant attempt to sanitise the hyper-surveillance schema employed against a concocted backdrop of “constant” terrorist threat. Keep the masses worried, and justify a relentless “need-to-know” self-protection racket. Apparently the White House has said “the threats are real, but we cannot be more specific than that.”