Or even fully understand the significance of what i'm saying.
Something has been bothering me ever since i heard that Sarah Palin's personal email account was hacked this week. Let me give you the background. Sara Palin is relatively new to the political scene, and certainly new to the national and world political scene. She's flown below the radar thus far, camped out in alaska, a state that is not even contiguous to the U.S. So nobody payed any attention to her. Until a month ago. Now people are buying her brand of shoes. People are quoting her on a daily basis. She's more popular than the presidential candidate. All a sudden rise to popularity. And then comes 'troopergate'. It is just one of the achille's heals in her story. She is accused of trying to use her political power to coerce a public official into an illegal act, and when that official refused, firing him.
When she hit the national stage, and this story started to come out, she and her husband said they would cooperate fully with any investigation. But then last week, they suddenly reversed their position and refused cooperation without explaination. Now, I'm not going to get into the character of people who do such things, you can decide that for yourself. What I am focusing on is what happened next.
Within days of their announcement, private emails from Sarah Palin's personal account began to appear in public forums from entities labeled 'anonymous'. They were harmless emails, seemingly a prank, or, well, at this point, nobody knows. But I think I do.
You see, the moment she became a candidate, all of her communication would be placed under maximum security. She herself would be well versed in security measures of the internet, among other things, if for no other reason than to show that she understands the importance and risks of security to show she has the necessary awareness to hold the office of vice president. So she wouldn't just have a regular google account. And that is not what was hacked.
Now certainly, any account can be hacked. But an account on high security takes allot of time, and allot of risk. It would take weeks at least, more likely months, for someone to gain access. In this case, it took days.
There is one entity who has the ability already in place to do this. It is a government entity that has been invested with so much power that its name is barely spoken. It has been given the technological means to tap all of the nation's communications, record them, and process that information at incredible speeds. I know this because I was required to analyze their technology for my internet security class last quarter.
This anonymous posting of Sarah Palin's emails is coming from homeland security, from the NSA. And the purpose is to show Sarah Palin, John McCain, and the rest of their campeign, who really is in charge.
George W. Bush has built an organization and invested it with powers beyond the wildest imaginations of J. Edgar Hoover or Heinrich Himmler. And in July of this year, congress signed a law allowing them to have unregulated rights to any and all communications in America with no oversight, and allowing the telecom companies to comply without fear of retribution. The NSA now owns the internet, and all traffic that goes over it in this country. Including financial transactions, state secrets, and your grandmother's egg salad recipe. They can control that information flow, and they can stop it.
And they're showing us all just how true that is with Sarah Palin's emails.
