Medium.com Column/Cartoon: I’m Tired of the U.S. Government Spying On Me. So I’m Running for President of France.

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This piece reacts to the fact that the NSA is finally going to get reined in. Not because they did wholesale spying on the American people, or on foreigners, or on foreign leaders, but specifically on the personal cell phone of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Spying on hundreds of millions of people? That’s just business as usual. Spying on an important leader of a country that is supposedly a US ally? That’s just rude.

The good news is, now us ordinary Americans can escape the prying eyes of the NSA. All we have to do is…

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1 Comment.

  • OK to try becoming Président de la République française, Ted, but should your election bid there fail, I must warn you against attempting to become Sveriges statsminister, in the hope that you will no longer be subject to NSA surviellance. Indeed, the requirement of checking out what one is thinking of doing with one’s controller at the US embassy, before a single email or tweet has been posted, is included in the job description and even were one to think the unthinkable thought of not doing so, all one’s communications are automatically turned over by the FRA to the GCHQ, which shares them ẃith the NSA….

    Ain’t democracy grand !…

    Henri

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