I Spy, He Spies, They All Spy

To be honest, I do not care that they listen to my phone calls, read my mail and select me automatically, putting me on the watch list for mentioning the words terrorism, bomb, Taliban or revolution.

The ex-CIA technical contractor, Edward Snowden, is currently hiding in China after revealing through the English newspaper The Guardian that the enigmatic United States National Security Agency spies on us. He argued that he is against those who violate “global privacy.”

This shows that the fact that the U.S. has been watching us for a while is neither a secret nor a lie repeated without end by anti-American activists. Simply owning a cell phone violates one’s privacy. There are cameras watching us from all angles. GPS is a mobile spy, and a credit card betrays those who intend to have a fling in a motel with a blonde or brunette Latina, whether or not they are for or against communism.

Recently, they discovered cyber espionage called GhostNet, which operates in China. There was not much ado made, however, because it was not American.

A normal, honest person, who does not owe anything to anyone and whose major conspiracy is, for example, cheating on his own diet, need not fear.

Who cares if they hear him arguing with his wife over the color used to paint the wall or if she asks him for plastic surgery or suggests that he take the magic pill so he does more in bed. I already imagine those macabre spies listening to the virtual sex of thousands of couples. The U.S. government is paranoid and will continue watching us, like it has done with the governments of China, Iran, Colombia and even Venezuela.

We have been maniacs since the very moment when terrorism became a new war. Let he cast the first stone who has not been afraid, felt suspicion or heard whispers after seeing a bearded man with a turban on an airplane; there, yes, he would have wanted to have spies capturing the “bandit.”

What should worry us is that the information compiled by the NSA is used with the distinct goal to safeguard the country and is used to accuse or make blackmail convenient. These key and very private pieces of information could be used as a weapon against any citizen, even the most innocent adulterer or someone hiding intimate secrets.

Who selects or discards the information and decides how is it used? They will say that it is a matter of national security. However, as American citizens we have the right to demand explanations.

Companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, which have apparently been complicit in this stalking through giving the NSA access to their servers in order to spy on suspects, will also be held accountable. It was obvious that if those companies sell information to advertisers that bombard us with offers, they also turn in private information under the pretext of protecting the nation from foreign dangers.

My only advice, if you are that worried about being watched, is to avoid telling your partner that she is a “sexy bomb” or “terror in bed” on the phone. It could increase the federal government’s list of suspects.