What does one make of this: Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created in One of the World’s Freest Countries. Having been someone who has helped create the world that’s beginning to frighten him, my sympathies for his concern are pretty minimal, but why did he even think anyone on the left would ever care even a smidgen about issues like these.

In the past several months, we have been provided with instructive lessons on the nature of state power and the forces that drive state policy. And on a closely related matter: the subtle, differentiated concept of transparency.

The source of the instruction, of course, is the trove of documents about the National Security Agency surveillance system released by the courageous fighter for freedom Edward J. Snowden, expertly summarized and analyzed by his collaborator Glenn Greenwald in his new book, “No Place to Hide.”

The documents unveil a remarkable project to expose to state scrutiny vital information about every person who falls within the grasp of the colossus – in principle, every person linked to the modern electronic society.

Nothing so ambitious was imagined by the dystopian prophets of grim totalitarian worlds ahead.

It really is pathetic this whining jerk, like all those communists who ended up with a bullet in the brain in the basement of the Lubyanka. Well it is bad, but if you think there is a party on the left anywhere who is either going to worry or do anything about it when the government is from the so-called left you are even more naive that this latest bleat would make you already seem.