NSA Parody Website More Real than the Real NSA Website

In doing research for an article, I came across this NSA parody website:

Although it looks pretty official, it didn’t take too long for me to realize it was a fake … only because — unlike our government that uses everything from weak semantic arguments to usurp the Constitution to obfuscation and outright lies to continue our already heavily centralized agencies on their path to total fascist oligarchy at every turn — the parody site was by contrast so honest.

“Domestic Surveillance Directorate: Defending our nation. Securing the citizens,” the page begins.
The site explains:

What if we could build a national data warehouse containing information about every person in the United States? Thanks to secret interpretations of the PATRIOT ACT, top-secret Fourth Amendment exceptions allowed by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and broad cooperation at the local, state, and federal level, we can!

It even comes complete with lovely graphics showing how our government is illegally sucking up all of our data into a big brother vacuum:

The parody also includes a list of all data which is currently being (or will soon be) collected by the NSA, you know, “in the spirit of openness and transparency”:

internet searches (ie; here’s a collection of searches by Federal Government workers)
websites visited
emails sent and received
social media activity (Facebook, Twitter, etc)
blogging activity including posts read, written, and commented on – View our patent
videos watched and/or uploaded online
photos viewed and/or uploaded online
mobile phone GPS-location data
mobile phone apps downloaded
phone call records – View our patent
text messages sent and received
Skype video calls
online purchases and auction transactions
credit card/ debit card transactions
financial information
legal documents
travel documents
health records
cable television shows watched and recorded
commuter toll records
electronic bus and subway passes / Smartpasses
facial recognition data from surveillance cameras
educational records
arrest records
driver license information

Nice, right?

What’s funny (and by funny, I mean sad and pathetic) about this is that the NSA did just release a bunch of documents on Christmas Eve (when they knew no one would be paying attention) about all the ways the agency has essentially sidestepped the Constitution by snooping on Americans.

On the official NSA webpage for that, someone in our government actually had the gall to write, “NSA goes to great lengths to ensure compliance with the Constitution, laws and regulations.”

Uh-huh. Sure they do, even as they are literally providing redacted documents proving to each and every American citizen that they don’t.

In fact, at the time I read that, I wondered if that site was a parody. (It’s not, by the way.)

The parody site also says, “Your Data: if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”

I guess that’s what we will have to keep telling ourselves here in America … Even as we watch the electronic concentration camp continue to be built up all around us and privacy becomes something that gets digitally scrubbed from our dictionaries.

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Melissa Melton is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up!