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Special - Wrapping up our "Surveillance in the Homeland" Project
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Sat Oct 22 13:36:03 2011
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t r u t h o u t | If there is one thing that our month-long investigation has taught us about the encroachment of the surveillance society on every aspect of our livelihoods, it's that if we turn our eyes away, it will only continue to grow. Truthout and the ACLU of Massachusetts' joint project, Ten Years Later: Surveillance in the "Homeland," [http://www.surveillanceinthehomeland.org/] aimed not only to chronicle these changes but to provide a critical voice on what it all means for our democracy and the role of progressives within it.
* Some partings word from the ACLU of Massachusetts: *
Since 9/11, relentless fearmongering has produced what NSA expert James Bamford has termed the "security-industrial complex," a revolving door between those generating the fears and those profiting from them (Politico, September 8). Some $690 billion has been spent on the emerging national surveillance state with results documented in the Surveillance in the Homeland series.
Bamford fears we have reached the point of "no return." But it is our hope that the more people come to understand the dimensions of the system erected in the shadows, the more chance that we can together make the current budget crisis an opportunity to put on the brakes and begin to roll back the surveillance state. The cost-benefit analysis is simply too stark to be either sustainable or credible. Ohio University Professor John Mueller and Mark Stewart in their report "Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits and Costs of Homeland Security" estimate that it would take 1,667 Times Square-type attacks every year to justify our current homeland security spending. We hope this Truthout series will generate action and that our website privacySOS.org [ http://www.privacySOS.org ] will become a resource for the kind of local activity that can begin to turn the situation around.
* -Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford*
Just because the series is over doesn't mean our interest is - as we have always done, Truthout will continue to tirelessly cover civil liberties issues. However, we need your help to continue producing investigations that are deeply important, but don't come together overnight. *Investigative work takes time, commitment and seasoned, dedicated reporters. We can only continue to produce unique projects like this one with your support. Please take a moment to make a donation today.*
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es away, it will only continue to grow. Truthout and the ACLU of Massachus=
etts’ joint project, <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/di=
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<b> Some partings word from the ACLU of Massachusetts: </b><br />
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<blockquote><span style=3D"font-size: medium;">Since 9/11, relentless fear=
mongering has produced what NSA expert James Bamford has termed the &ldquo=
;security-industrial complex,” a revolving door between those genera=
ting the fears and those profiting from them (Politico, September 8). Some=
$690 billion has been spent on the emerging national surveillance state w=
ith results documented in the Surveillance in the Homeland series.</span> =
  
<p><span style=3D"font-size: medium;">Bamford fears we have reached the poi=
nt of "no return." But it is our hope that the more people come to underst=
and the dimensions of the system erected in the shadows, the more chance t=
hat we can together make the current budget crisis an opportunity to put o=
n the brakes and begin to roll back the surveillance state. We hope this =
Truthout series will generate action and that our website <a href=3D"http:/=
/org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D5A6Gqkh2aXLhxW%2B7nv5i%=
2Fpm2c88cUdP6"><font color=3D"#cc0000">privacySOS.org</font></a> will becom=
e a resource for the kind of local activity that can begin to turn the sit=
uation around. </span><br />
<br />
<b><span style=3D"font-size: medium;"> -Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford</sp=
an></b></p>
</blockquote>
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